Peter Stuyvesant
Dutch politician; director-general of New Netherland (1612-1672) · Netherlands · Politicians · Died at 60
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Something wrong?The last Dutch governor of New York - back when it was New Amsterdam - who built Wall Street's actual wall, dug the canal that became Broad Street, and left his name on a high school, a neighborhood, and a housing complex three centuries after the English took the colony from him.
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Peter Stuyvesant's Bowery house
Stuyvesant's arrival in New Amsterdam
Peter Stuyvesant"Organizer of the first volunteer firemen in America", Volunteer firemen issue of 1948
Peter Stuyvesant and the Cobbler by John Whetton Ehninger
Peter Stuyvesant's deed for a part of Manhattan (now Financial District), 1654
The Castello Plan of 1660 is the only Dutch-era map of the settlement on Manhattan
New Amsterdam in 1664, the year it was taken over by the BritishFamily
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Peter Stuyvesant arrived as director-general of New Netherland in 1647 and spent seventeen years pushing the settlement of New Amsterdam beyond the southern tip of Manhattan. His administration laid the infrastructure - the protective wall on Wall Street, the canal that became Broad Street, Broadway - that would outline the city long after the Dutch were gone. A member of the Dutch Reformed Church, he fought religious pluralism hard, clashing with Lutherans, Jews, Catholics, and Quakers as they tried to build houses of worship and practice openly. In 1664 the colony was provisionally ceded to England, ending his tenure. He died in August 1672, but the city kept his name on landmarks across all five boroughs.
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