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24. Jan. 2024 · English: Peter Stuyvesant (originally Pieter or Petrus; Peter is never mentioned in historical records) (c. 1612 – August 1672) served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland (New York) from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664. Nederlands: Petrus Stuyvesant (hoogstwaarschijnlijk Peperga ...
Petrus Stuyvesant. Born 13 Oct 1727 in New York City, New York. Ancestors. Son of Gerardus Stuyvesant and Judith (Baijard) Bayard. [sibling (s) unknown] husband of Margaret (Livingston) Stuyvesant — married 17 Oct 1764 [location unknown] Descendants. Father of Judith (Stuyvesant) Winthrop , Cornelia Stuyvesant , Nicholas William Stuyvesant ...
Ancestor Notes. Stuyvesant, Petrus (1610-1672), JACOB LEISLER’s next door neighbor, military commander and Dutch West India Company official; born Westellingwerf, Friesland, son of Reformed domine Balthasar Stuyvesant and Margaretta Hardenstein; University of Franeker, 1632; supercargo, Dutch West India Company, Brazil, 1635; commissary of ...
Peter Stuyvesant was a Dutch colonial officer who served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was split into New York and New Jersey with lesser territory becoming parts of other colonies, and later, states. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City and his name has ...
The silver studs up and down the wooden leg flash in the sunlight. Your teacher told the class about Petrus Stuyvesant, the director of New Netherland. And here he is. People step back as he passes. Suddenly, Stuyvesant lets out a roar and points to the body of a dead skunk in the street. You smell only a small trace of its odor, so it's been ...
In 1787, Stuyvesant's great-grandson, named Petrus Stuyvesant after him, had a narrow lane on the farm widened and formally named Stuyvesant Street. This street still exists in lower Manhattan, and is distinguished by running at an angle to the grid of surrounding streets. At about the corner of Stuyvesant Street and Second Avenue was the original site of the Stuyvesant family chapel; it was ...
Petrus (peter) Stuyvesant. The Dutch Republic was unrivaled among European countries for its toleration of religious minorities. But, as director general of the New Netherland colony, Petrus Stuyvesant believed that social order depended on strictly controlling the young settlement’s religious life. Stuyvesant and his allies feared that ...
