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
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, 1863
Manatvs gelegen op de Noot Riuier closeup N01 to N17
Conquest of New Netherland
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The conquest of New Netherland occurred in 1664 as an English expedition led by Richard Nicolls that arrived in New York Harbor effected a peaceful capture of New Amsterdam and Fort Amsterdam, and the
"The Fall of New Amsterdam" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
A 1664 illustration of New Netherland
Landing of the English at New Amsterdam 1664