2-329-848 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Peter Stuyvesant, Dutch soldier and colonial administrator, c1660 (c1880). Stuyvesant (c1612-1672) was the last Director-General of the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland. After he arrived in the colony in 1647, he oversaw the expansion of its main settlement, New Amsterdam. The colony was captured by the British in 1664 and the city was renamed New York. A print from Cassell's "History of the United States", by Edmund Ollier, Volume I, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.