NOUN
- the last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England (1592-1672)
How To Use Peter Stuyvesant In A Sentence
- The narrative begins inauspiciously in 1654 with the arrival of 23 Jewish settlers in New Amsterdam, whose governor, Peter Stuyvesant, greeted them as "hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ. American Jews' Story Told in a New Home
- The Society of Friends bought the building for $20,500 from a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the governor who persecuted them in the 1650s. A Real Estate Idea Whose Time Has Come, Gone and Come Again