Peter Stuyvesant
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Peter Stuyvesant was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as the director-general of New Netherland from 1647 to 1664, when the colony was provisionally ceded to the Kingdom of England. He was a
Painting attributed to Hendrick Couturier c. 1660
Peter Stuyvesant's Bowery house
Stuyvesant's arrival in New Amsterdam
Peter Stuyvesant"Organizer of the first volunteer firemen in America", Volunteer firemen issue of 1948
Flushing Remonstrance
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The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition to Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant, in which some thirty residents of the small settlement at Flushing requested an exemption to his b
Scan of the original petition of 1657
Flushing Green in 2025
John Bowne House on 16 May 2023
FoxOaksStone engraved side