This is the digital edition of John S.C. Abbott’s ‘Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam’ first published in 1898.
Pieter Stuyvesant (c. 1612 – August 1672), known as Petrus, 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 renamed New York. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City.
Stuyvesant's accomplishments as director-general included a great expansion for the settlement of New Amsterdam beyond the southern tip of Manhattan. Among the projects built by Stuyvesant's administration were the protective wall on Wall Street, the canal that became Broad Street, and Broadway.
Although he is most commonly referred to in modern English as "Peter Stuyvesant", that name is not found in historical records.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. Discovery of the Hudson River
CHAPTER II. The Progress of Discovery
CHAPTER III. The Commencement of Colonization
CHAPTER IV. The Administration of Van Twiller
CHAPTER V. War and Its Devastations
CHAPTER VI. Governor Stuyvesant
CHAPTER VII. War Between England and Holland
CHAPTER VIII. Another Indian War
CHAPTER IX. An Energetic Administration
CHAPTER X. The Esopus War
CHAPTER XI. The Disastrous Year
CHAPTER XII. Encroachments of the English
CHAPTER XIII. Hostile Measures Commenced
CHAPTER XIV. The Capture of New Amsterdam
CHAPTER XV. The Final Surrender
CHAPTER XVI. The Olden Time
FOOTNOTES
