Peter Stuyvesant
Peter Stuyvesant
Peter Stuyvesantserved 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...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionPublic Servant
loss afterlife legs
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
altogether annual petitions powder repeated tedious three
It would be altogether too tedious to insert here all the annual petitions for powder which were sometimes repeated two or three times a year.
powder provisions relief terms
Powder and provisions failing, and no relief or reinforcement being expected, we were necessitated to come to terms with the enemy.
both
To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.
remain
The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.
design directed force imagined rather reform warlike
The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.
proceed
It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.
patience speech bears
Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.
people moral
The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.
race names enemy
We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.
littles tomorrow march
Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.
christian blood hundred
I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.
hands anxiety littles
It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
peace war blessed
Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.