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Stuyvesant, Peter 1602-1682
Last Dutch governor of New York; born in Holland in 1602; was a brave soldier in the Dutch military service in the West Indies, and was director, or governor, of the colony of Curacoa.
He was a remarkably strongheaded official.
He had lost a leg in battle in the West Indies, and, with a wooden one, bound with silver bands, he came to New Netherland as its director-general, or governor, late in May, 1647.
He was received with joy as the successor of Kieft.
He assumed great dignity; marched from the vessel to the fort with great pomp, and assured the people that justice should rule.
He began his administration by the assertion of vice-regal authority, and frowned upon every expression of republican sentiment, declaring it to be treason to petition against one's magistrate, whether there be cause or not.
He defended Kieft's conduct in rejecting the interference of the council of twelve (see Kieft, William), saying: If any one, during my administra