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	Peter Stuyvesant
		Stuyvesant was appointed by the Dutch West India Company in 1646 to replace William Kieft at a time of the most vulnerability of the colony.
		As the new governor, Stuyvesant's charge was to improve the economic status of the colony and to quell the Indian hostilities that interfered with the growth and economic development of Dutch settlements like Pavonia.
		On January 30,1658, at Fort Amsterdam, Stuyvesant met with Indians chiefs from across the Hudson River for the repurchase of the western shore, that is "all the lands between the Hackensack and North (Hudson) rivers from Weehawken and Secaucus to the Kill van Kull (Lovero, p.
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	Peter Stuyvesant
		Peter Stuyvesant (born 1592 in Scherpenzeel, died 1672) served as the last Dutch governor of the colony of New Netherland before it was turned over to the British Empire.
		Stuyvesant's accomplishment as governor included a great expansion for the settlement of New Amsterdam (later renamed New York) beyond the southern tip of Manhattan.
		Stuyvesant and his family were large land owners in the northeastern portion of New Amsterdam and the Stuyvesant name is currently associated with the Stuyvesant Town[?] housing complex, historic Stuyvesant Street[?], and Stuyvesant High School, among others.
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	III. Stuyvesant and the End of Dutch Rule. 1647-1664.. Roosevelt, Theodore. 1906. New York
		Stuyvesant's own roomy and picturesque house was likewise of stone, and was known far and near as the Whitehall, finally giving its name to the street on which it stood.
		Stuyvesant himself sent counter protests; and also made repeated demands for more men and more money, that he might put into good condition the crumbling and ill-manned fortifications, which, as he wrote home, would be of no avail at all to resist any strong attack that might be made by the ever-threatening English.
		Stuyvesant had continued without cessation to beseech the home government that he might be given the means to defend the province; but his appeals were unheeded by his profit-loving, money-getting superiors in Holland.
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	Peter Stuyvesant
		Peter Stuyvesant is an important figure in the history of New York City [earlier New Amsterdam], New York State and New Netherland.
		Peter, also named Petrus, Stuyvesant was born in Scherpenzeel, a town near the provincial border of Gelderland and Utrecht, and not far from the bustling city of Amsterdam in 1592.
		Stuyvesant was rather authoritarian with his subjects and he is frequently depicted as despotic.
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		The focal point of Stuyvesant Street, St. Mark's-In-The-Bowery, was first built in 1799 on what had been the vast estate of Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch colonial governor of New Amsterdam.
		Stuyvesant himself is entombed in the church's graveyard.
		Peter Stuyvesant's mansion was located approximately where the UPS delivery truck is parked on the south side of the street.
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	Peter Stuyvesant Summary
		Peter Stuyvesant was the colorful and controversial director general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland (presentday New York State).
		Stuyvesant and his family were large land owners in the northeastern portion of New Amsterdam, and the Stuyvesant name is currently associated with the Stuyvesant Town housing complex and Stuyvesant High School (where he is fondly known as "Pegleg Pete" and the football team is called the Peglegs in his honour), among other locations.
		To honor Stuyvesant's dedication to education and New Amsterdam's legal-cultural tradition of toleration under Stuyvesant, Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan was named after him, in spite of his initial objections to the arrival, in 1654, of a large group of Sephardim from Dutch Brazil without West India Company passports.
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	Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
		At that time Peter Stuyvesant, a brave Dutch soldier, who had served gallantly in the West Indies and lost a leg in an attack upon the Portuguese island of St. Martin, was at Amsterdam.
		Stuyvesant saw the tidal wave of popular feeling rising, but like Canute he sat still, firm in his integrity and convictions of his righteousness, until he was compelled to yield or perish.
		Stuyvesant retired to his bowerie or farm on the East River, and in the quiet of domestic life he enjoyed the respect of his fellow-citizens.
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	Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bedford Stuyvesant (also known as Bed-Stuy) is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
		In the last decades of the 19th century, with the advent of electric trolleys and the Fulton Street Elevated, Bedford Stuyvesant became a working class and middle class bedroom community for those working in downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan in New York City.
		One significant reason for this has been the decrease of crime in the neighborhood, which is at least partly attributable to the decline of the national crack epidemic in the late 1980s.
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	Peter Stuyvesant
		In 1649 Stuyvesant marched to Fort Orange with a military escort, and ordered certain houses to be razed to permit of a better defence of the fort in case of an attack of the Indians, also commanding that stores and timber should be taken from the patroon's land to repair the fortifications.
		She left a fund to the Dutch church in New York for St. Mark's chapel.--Stuyvesant's son, Nicholas William, born in 1648; died in 1698, married Maria, the daughter of William Beckman, and afterward the daughter of Brant Van Slechtenhorst.
		--Peter's son, Peter Gerard, lawyer, born in New York city in 1778; died at Niagara Falls, New York, 16 August, 1847, was graduated at Columbia in 1794, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised in New York city.
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	Peter Stuyvesant
		Stuyvesant also aroused opposition through his efforts to increase the revenues of the company, to improve the system of defense, and to prevent the sale of liquor and firearms to the Indians, and through his persecution of Lutherans and Quakers, to which the company finally put an end.
		In March 1664 King Charles II granted to his brother, the Duke of York, the territory between the Connecticut river and Delaware Bay, and Colonel Richard Nicolls with a fleet of four ships and about three or four hundred men was sent out to take possession.
		As the burghers refused to support him, Stuyvesant was compelled to surrender the town and fort on the 8th of September.
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	Peter Stuyvesant Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Born at Scherpenzeel, Friesland, Stuyvesant was the son of a Calvinist Dutch Reformed minister.
		Stuyvesant expected the people to obey his will and opposed the New Amsterdam citizen's desire for a separate municipal government for the city, but he early established the Board of Nine Men to advise him in promoting the public welfare.
		The governor's salary plus allowances (approximately $1,600, all told) enabled Stuyvesant to purchase a bouwerie, or farm, of 300 acres north of the city wall and a town lot for a house with gardens beside the fort.
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	Liberty Magazine
		Word had traveled of Stuyvesant’s bravery in a battle with the Spanish during which his leg had been blown off by a cannonball, and when his ship finally sailed into the harbor, the townspeople used almost all of their gunpowder in salute.
		Governor Stuyvesant told the colonists, “I shall govern you as a father his children.” And govern he did, with a relentless, authoritarian confidence generally tending toward the good, but exhibiting a myopic understanding of the more delicate issue of religious tolerance.
		Stuyvesant declared that the community’s troubles had resulted from the “rigorous justice” of God for tolerating the Quakers, and promised that God would bring about “severe punishment” if they did not change their ways.
	www.libertymagazine.org /article/articleview/532/1/86 (1251 words)

	Peter Stuyvesant, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stuyvesant had served in the West Indies as governor of one of the islands, and for his good services there was appointed, in 1647, by the Dutch West India Company as the governor of their colony of New Amsterdam.
		Stuyvesant brought to his work a determination to be "as a father over his children," and he immediately set about trying to reform abuses with a commendable enthusiasm.
		Stuyvesant returned to Holland, but when the Dutch West India Company blamed him for all of their misfortunes in the New World, he returned to America and spent the rest of his life on his farm, or "Bouwerie," as it was called in Dutch.
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	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Peter Stuyvesant 1592-1672
		Peter Stuyvesant (also known as Pietrus Stuyvesant), the son of a clergyman of Friesland, was born in the Netherlands in 1592.
		Stuyvesant prepared against an attack by ordering his subjects to make a ditch from the North river to the East river, and to erect breastworks.
		In 1665 Stuyvesant went to Holland to report, and labored to secure from the king the satisfaction of the sixth article in the treaty with Nicholls, which granted free trade.
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	Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, Then and Now (Gotham Gazette. September, 2006)
		Both Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village are seen as one of the few remaining middle class bastions in a borough filled with the affluent and the poor.
		When Stuyvesant Town opened in 1947, it excluded non-whites, which is why in 1950, out of more than 30,000 residents, only 114 were fl.
		At Stuyvesant Town, where hardly any of the standard apartments have more than one bathroom, renters in regulated apartments pay an average of $1,096 for a one-bedroom apartment and $1,514 for three.
	www.gothamgazette.com /article/demographics/20060914/5/1975 (1151 words)

	Peter Stuyvesant
		STUYVESANT, Peter, governor of New York, born in Holland in 1602; died in New York city in August, 1682.
		In 1649 Stuyvesant marched to Fort Orange with a military escort, and ordered certain houses to be razed to permit of a better defence of the fort in case of an attack of the Indians, also commanding that stores and timber should be taken from the patroon's land to repair the fortifications.
		The states-general afterward commanded Stuyvesant to appear personally in Holland; but the order was not confirmed by the Amsterdam chamber, and Stuyvesant refused to obey, saying, " I shall do as I please." In September, 1650, a meeting of the commissioners on boundaries took place in Hartford, whither Stuyvesant travelled in state.
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	PETER STUYVESANT (1592... - Online Information article about PETER STUYVESANT (1592... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stuyvesant also aroused opposition through his efforts.to increase the revenues of the company, to improve the See also:
		Stuyvesant's dealings with the Swedes were more successful.
		Misled by instructions from Holland that the expedition was directed wholly against New England, Stuyvesant made no preparation for defence until just before the fleet arrived.
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	Big Apple History . Early New York . Peter Stuyvesant \| PBS KIDS GO!
		Stuyvesant was the ideal candidate for the job of taming a wild frontier town.
		Stuyvesant's right leg had to be amputated after being crushed by a cannonball during a battle with the Spanish three years earlier.
		Illustration: "Peter Stuyvesant and the Cobbler," courtesy of the Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
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	AllRefer.com - Peter Stuyvesant (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Peter Stuyvesant[stI´vusunt] Pronunciation Key, c.1610–1672, Dutch director-general of New Netherland.
		Nevertheless, Stuyvesant continued his harsh rule and was intolerant of religious dissenters, especially Quakers.
		Overwhelmed by a surprise English attack, Stuyvesant surrendered New Netherland to England in 1664.
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	People - Peter Stuyvesant - Take The Fascinating Journey Through New York State - Lincoln-Titus Elementary School 5th ...
		Peter Stuyvesant is known as a great Dutch military leader and the last governor of the New Netherland.
		Born in 1610, to a religious, Dutch family in Friesland, Netherland, Peter's father was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church.
		Peter was able to travel and work on tropical islands throughout the West Indies.
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	PETER STUYVESANT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In response to their demands for self-government, he and the council in 1647 appointed an advisory board of nine which included William Sturtevant, and in 1653 there was established the first municipal government for the city of New Amsterdam, modeled after the cities of Holland.
		But he succeeded in dislodging the Swedes from their settlement in Dutch territory along the Delaware River and in establishing peace with the Indians there.
		In August 1664, when the burghers refused to aid him, Stuyvesant was forced to surrender New Netherland to the British.
	www.sturtivant.org.uk /stuyvesant.html (318 words)

	People - Peter Stuyvesant - Take The Fascinating Journey Through New York State - Lincoln-Titus Elementary School 5th ...
		Peter was excited but wanted to still have the position as governor of Curacao too.
		While Peter was waiting to be sent to New Netherland he met and fell in love with Judith Bayard.
		He was amazed at the horrible conditions in New Amsterdam; roads were unpaved and muddy, trash was thrown onto the roads, and pigs and chickens ran loose.
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	stuy.edu: about: Peter Stuyvesant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In response to their demands for self-government, he and the council in 1647 appointed an advisory board of nine, and in 1653 there was established the first municipal government for the city of New Amsterdam, modeled after the cities of Holland.
		But he succeeded in dislodging the Swedes from their settlement in Dutch territory along the Delaware River and in establishing peace with the Indians there.
		In August 1664, when the burghers refused to aid him, Stuyvesant was forced to surrender New Netherland to the British.
	tour.stuy.edu /about/peterstuy.php (292 words)

	City in a Soundwalk :: Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost
		Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost (PSG) is a civic art project inspired by the rapid cultural and physical changes during the Dutch colonial period in what is now New York City.
		Guided walks and specifically created maps explore the contemporary topography of the East Village while making palpable the pre-urban terrain of Peter Stuyvesant's seventeenth century farm.
		PSG will move audiences through this terrain, primed for careful listening to what currently waits to be heard, letting alternative realities flicker briefly into life, and arousing historical and environmental perceptions.
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		Peter Stuyvesant's gift to posterity was his eventual acceptance of the surrender terms.
		Stuyvesant at one point said that he "...would much rather be carried out dead," but the townspeople pieced together the surrender terms that he had torn to bits, and along with the clergy, prevailed upon him to accept English occupation.
		Stuyvesant, the present Governor, on Monday next by eight of the clock in the morning, at the Old mill.
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