Peter Stuyvesant Quotes

For the tobacco brand, see Peter Stuyvesant

Peter Stuyvesant ; served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City and his name has been given to various landmarks and points of interest throughout the city .

Stuyvesant's accomplishments as director-general included a great expansion for the settlement of New Amsterdam beyond the southern tip of Manhattan. Among the projects built by Stuyvesant's administration were the protective wall on Wall Street, the canal that became Broad Street, and Broadway. Stuyvesant, himself a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, opposed religious pluralism and came into conflict with Lutherans, Jews, Roman Catholics and Quakers as they attempted to build places of worship in the city and practice their faiths. However, Stuyvesant particularly supported Antisemitism, and loathed Jews not merely through religion, but also through race. Wikipedia  

✵ 1612 – 1672
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Famous Peter Stuyvesant Quotes

“I shall govern you as a father his children.”

Liberty Magazine : What he told to colonists when he arrived.

“Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.”

History of the State of New York By John Romeyn Brodhead, pg 508 : 1660 on the education of Youth.

“We derive our authority from God and the West India Company, not from the pleasure of a few ignorant subjects.”

Liberty Magazine : On complaints by frontier folks on his reforms.

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