Peter Gansevoort (politician)
Peter Gansevoort was an American politician from New York.
Peter Gansevoort (politician)
Peter Gansevoort was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for leading the resistance to Barry St. Leger's Siege of Fort Stanwix in 1777. Gansevoort was also the maternal grandfather of Moby-Dick author Herman Melville.
Portrait of Gansevoort by Gilbert Stuart, 1794
Statue of Peter Gansevoort, Rome, NY
Catherine Van Schaick Gansevoort, portrait by Ezra Ames
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