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
Peter Stuyvesant was a Dutch colonial officer who served 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 split into New York and New Jersey with lesser territory becoming parts of other colonies, and later, states. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City and his name has been given to various landmarks and points of interest throughout the city.
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