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Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherland, surrendered to the British because he did not have the support of the colonists. They preferred the lenient terms of Colonel Richard Nicolls to the authoritarian expectations of Stuyvesant.
He was governor of New Amsterdam, which was located on Manhatten Island.(New York) They had very valuable profits, and the English wanted it. So they attacked the land, and the governor, Peter Stuyvesant was unaware of it, he surrendered the land to the English.
Stuyvesant is the man who bartered the rights to Manhatten for $24 in trade goods. He established the colony of New Amsterdam which eventually became New York. One of my ancestors was met at the pier by Governor Stuyvesant.
Peter Stuyvesant's middle name is Harold.
In 1664, Peter Stuyvesant was the governor (actually, his title was Director General) of New Netherland, not New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam was a colony in the greater New Netherland settlement. There was never a governor (or Director General) of New Amsterdam.
Peter Stuyvesant become governor of New Amsterdam in May of 1647
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Pieter Stuyvesant married Judith Bayard in 1645, probably in Amsterdam.
Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherland, surrendered to the British because he did not have the support of the colonists. They preferred the lenient terms of Colonel Richard Nicolls to the authoritarian expectations of Stuyvesant.
He was governor of New Amsterdam, which was located on Manhatten Island.(New York) They had very valuable profits, and the English wanted it. So they attacked the land, and the governor, Peter Stuyvesant was unaware of it, he surrendered the land to the English.
Stuyvesant is the man who bartered the rights to Manhatten for $24 in trade goods. He established the colony of New Amsterdam which eventually became New York. One of my ancestors was met at the pier by Governor Stuyvesant.
Peter Stuyvesant was born in 1612.
Peter Stuyvesant
The founder of New Amsterdam was Peter Stuyvesant. It was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island.