Stuyvesant

Stuyvesant
/stuy"veuh seuhnt/, n.
Peter, 1592-1672, Dutch colonial administrator in the Americas: last governor of New Netherlands 1646-64.

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  • Stuyvesant —   [ ʃtɔi̯vəzant, niederländisch stœi̯vəzɑnt], Petrus (englisch Peter), niederländischer Kolonialpolitiker, * Scherpenzeel (heute zu Weststellingwerf, Provinz Friesland) um 1610 (1592 ?), ✝ New York Februar 1672; ab 1635 im Dienst der… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Stuyvesant — [stī′və sənt] Peter 1592 1672; last Du. governor of New Netherland (1646 64) …   English World dictionary

  • Stuyvesant — noun the last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England (1592 1672) • Syn: ↑Peter Stuyvesant, ↑Petrus Stuyvesant • Instance Hypernyms: ↑administrator, ↑executive …   Useful english dictionary

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  • Stuyvesant Fish — (June 24, 1851 April 10, 1923) was president of the Illinois Central Railroad.Fish was born in New York City, the son of Hamilton Fish and his wife Julia Ursin Niemcewicz, née Kean. A graduate of Columbia College, he was later an executive of the …   Wikipedia

  • Stuyvesant Street (Manhattan) — Stuyvesant Street is one of the oldest streets in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Originally it ran east through The Bowery, i.e. Peter Stuyvesant s bowery (or bouwerij, which is the old Dutch word for farm), from Bowery Road, which today …   Wikipedia

  • Stuyvesant Fish Morris — I (August 3, 1843 May 10, 1928) was an American physician and the progenitor of Manhattan s prominent family of physicians.He was the son of Richard Lewis Morris I (1805 1880) and Elizabeth Sarah Stuyvesant Fish (1810 1881) and he was born in… …   Wikipedia

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