Peter Stuyvesant (English: /ˈstaɪvəsənt/; in Dutch also Pieter and Petrus Stuyvesant, Dutch: [ˈstœyvəzɑnt]; c. 1610 – August 1672) was a Dutch colonial...

painter and printmaker Pieter de Grebber (c.1600–1653), Dutch Golden Age painter Pieter Post (1608–1669), Dutch architect Pieter Stuyvesant (later Peter) (c...

Netherland, Pieter Stuyvesant, has bequeathed his name to a street, a neighborhood and a few schools in New York City, and the town of Stuyvesant. Many of...

the colony awaits the arrival of its new Governor from Holland, Peter Stuyvesant. Irving selects the young Brom Broeck as his hero. Broeck is a brave but...

Styntje Pieters 1606-1694 (2nd marriage of Balthazar J. Stuyvesant 1627) Margaret Grietie Margrietje Stuyvesant 1635-1682 (half-sister of Peter Stuyvesant) Fish...

the common people against a group of wealthy leaders represented by Pieter Stuyvesant and others and enacted a government of direct popular representation...

of the Low Countries, but retained the Italianate "Fonda". Before Pieter Stuyvesant surrendered Nieuw Amsterdam to the English the Fondas, instead of...

original popular assemblymen serving in New Amsterdam from 1647 under Pieter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Netherlands. Hendrick Hendricksen Kip was born in1600...

Director-General of New Netherland, representing the West India Company, was Pieter Stuyvesant, who saw the patroon's position, power, and land as a direct threat...

in Dutch) of Beverwyck by the Director-General of New Amsterdam, Pieter Stuyvesant, who also established the first court in Albany. Albany was established...

Stuyvesant led a military expedition and regained control of the region, naming its main settlement "New Amstel" (Nieuw-Amstel). While Stuyvesant was...

portrait painter of Pieter Stuyvesant, though this attribution is based mainly on a court statement of his wife in 1663 that Stuyvesant had given her and...

monopolies: Jan Pieterszoon Coen of the Dutch East India Company, Pieter Stuyvesant of the Dutch West India Company, Robert Clive of the English East...

30, 1645 that a treaty to cease hostilities was finally concluded. Pieter Stuyvesant was selected to replace Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland...

Christiaan Winand Staring, poet (1941) Jan Steen, painter (1940, 1979) Pieter Stuyvesant, governor (1939) Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, composer (1935) Gerard...

York. The congregation was founded in 1654 by decree of Governor Pieter Stuyvesant, as one of three "collegiate churches." The current church building...

Carver Howard Hughes 6 Grin and Bear It The pain ridden and disabled Pieter Stuyvesant General Antonio de Santa Anna Daniel Lambert Florence Nightingale...

English had captured it. In 1663, Lawrence was appointed by Governor Pieter Stuyvesant as a Commissioner to negotiate with the General Court at Hartford...

upon. In New Amsterdam (modern New York) in 1656, Director General Pieter Stuyvesant issued ordinances against goose pulling, calling it "unprofitable...

tells a joke featuring the line, "'50 bucks?' the fella says. 'Peter Stuyvesant only paid 24 for the entire island of Manhattan!'", while Steve Buscemi's'...

Peter Stuyvesant (later the governor of Nieue Amsterdam) directed his Dutch troops in an unsuccessful effort to retake the island. Governor Pieter Stuyvesant...

nine original assemblymen serving in New Amsterdam from 1647 under Pieter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Netherlands. His ancestors were the namesake of Kips...

replacement, was Pieter Stuyvesant, a seasoned administrator and soldier, who was counted upon to renew the failing Dutch colony. In 1664, Stuyvesant surrendered...

merchant ship Princess Amelia. among the passengers was Director-General Pieter Stuyvesant. Traveling by ship in the 1600s was not without its dangers; the Princess...

Greenbush and East Greenbush. The Director-General of New Amsterdam, Pieter Stuyvesant, came to Fort Orange in April 1652 and incorporated the areas surrounding...

intentions to appoint Roelof Swartwout and instructed the Director General Pieter Stuyvesant to appoint him as schout as soon as Wiltwijck later Kingston had a...

in Rensselaerwyck. In 1655 Pieter Claesen signed a contract to superintend the bowery (farm) and cattle of Peter Stuyvesant in New Amersfoort, on Long...

per". pro scientia atque sapientia for knowledge and wisdom motto of Stuyvesant High School in New York City pro scientia et patria for science and nation...

born in Chiavenna, Italy, and died in Zürich, Switzerland. Their son, Hans Pieter Asdor, was born in Switzerland and died in Nußloch. John Jacob and his brother...

supply of gunpowder, Stuyvesant was inclined to resist. On September 4, the English ships began to maneuver closer to the fort. Stuyvesant was confronted by...