Stuyvesant family
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The Stuyvesant family is a family of American politicians and landowners in New York City. The family is of Dutch origin and is descended from Peter Stuyvesant (1610–1672), who was born in Peperga, Friesland, Netherlands and served as the last Dutch Director-General of New Netherland.
Portrait of Gov. Peter Stuyvesant, attributed to Hendrick Couturier, c. 1660
Portrait of Peter Stuyvesant (1727–1805) by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1793–1795.
Gov. Stuyvesant's house, erected 1658, afterwards called The Whitehall
Augustus and Anne Van Horne Stuyvesant's home at 2 East 79th Street
Stuyvesant Farm
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Stuyvesant Farm, also known as the Great Bowery, was the estate of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland, as well as his predecessors and later his familial descendants. The land was at first designated Bowery No. 1, the largest and northernmost of six initial estates of the Dutch West India Company north of New Amsterdam, used as the official residence and economic support for Willem Verhulst and all subsequent directors of the colony.
Peter Stuyvesant's house on the Great Bowery
Insert of "The Plan of the City of New York in North America" by British military officer Bernard Ratzer, surveyed in 1766 and 1767, printed in 1770
Stuyvesant pear tree
Image: Manatvs gelegen op de Noot Riuier closeup N01 to N17