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Peter, or Petrus, Stuyvesant was, according to some sources, born in Scherpenzeel, a town near the provincial border of Gelderland and Utrecht, and not far from the bustling city of Amsterdam in 1610. Other sources claim his birthplace is identified as Peperga in Friesland, and that claim may be correct because he apparently had attended the University of Franeker, located in Northern Friesland.
The seventh and final Director-General of New Netherland, Stuyvesant was installed by the Dutch West India Company in 1647 and governed until the English takeover in 1664. Episodes from the life of Petrus Stuyvesant appear in the records of both the NYC Municipal Archives and the City of Amsterdam Archives. A selection of episodes is excerpted ...
15. Nov. 2023 · Today the name of the Stuyvesant family is no longer regarded as just “proof of affection between the two countries.” Another, darker, dimension has been added. Petrus Stuyvesant was an enslaver, like many others in New Amsterdam, and held approximately 15 to 25 Africans in bondage. The Director General’s part in the Dutch slave trade ...
Petrus Stuyvesant war ab 1643 Gouverneur von Curaçao und ab 1647 Generaldirektor der von der Niederländischen Westindien-Kompanie (WIC) verwalteten Kolonie Nieuw Nederland, bevor diese 1664 von England in Besitz genommen wurde.
17. Mai 2018 · Stuyvesant's harsh rule eventually led to the downfall of New Netherland, which was taken over by the English with no resistance from the Dutch in 1664. Seeks adventure. Petrus Stuyvesant (called Peter by the English) was born in 1592. His mother died in 1625, and his father, the Reverend Balthazar Johannes Stuyvesant, remarried two years later.
Peter Stuyvesant (also known as Pietrus Stuyvesant), the son of a clergyman of Friesland, was born in the Netherlands in 1592. Stuyvesant served in the Dutch Army before receiving his appointment as director-general of New Netherland in 1646. He had served in the West Indies and was governor of the colony of Curacoa. He lost a leg during the unsuccessful assault on the Portuguese island of St ...
Stuyvesant. [ ˈstœjvəzant] Petrus (Peter), niederländischer Kolonialpolitiker, * 1592 Scherpenzeel, Provinz Geldern, † 1672 New York; seit 1647 Gouverneur der Kolonie Nieuw Nederland mit Sitz in Nieuw Amsterdam, das er 1664 den Engländern übergeben musste und das den Namen New York erhielt.
