Stuyvesant, Peter
c.1610
Scherpenzeel, Netherlands
1672
Manhattan, New York
Dutch director general of New Netherland
Portrait: Peter Stuyvesant. Reproduced by permission of The Library of Congress...
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Peter Stuyvesant (ca. 1610-1672), Dutch director general of the New Netherland colony in America, was compelled to surrender his colony to England.The last and most efficient of Dutch proconsuls in th...
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Stuyvesant, Peter
Peter Stuyvesant