Person

Peter Stuyvesant

(1796–1860)

(1796–1860)

Notable quotes

“Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.”
— History of the State of New York By John Romeyn Brodhead, pg 508 : 1660 on the education of Youth.
“I shall govern you as a father his children.”
— Liberty Magazine : What he told to colonists when he arrived.
“We derive our authority from God and the West India Company, not from the pleasure of a few ignorant subjects.”
— Liberty Magazine : On complaints by frontier folks on his reforms.

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