USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Petrus Stuyvesant is best known as New Netherland’s longest, most influential, and last Dutch governor, having served until the English overthrew the colony’s Dutch administration and renamed it New York in 1664. Stuyvesant helped make New Amsterdam more orderly and economically successful than it had ever been.

Detailed explanation-2: -Stuyvesant, Peter Stuyvesant became governor of the Caribbean islands of Curaçao, Bonaire, and Aruba in 1643, and in 1647 he became director-general of all the Dutch territories, including New Amsterdam (later New York City).

Detailed explanation-3: -During the restitution to Dutch rule from August 1673 to November 1674, when New Netherland was under the jurisdiction of the City of Amsterdam, the first Dutch governor, Anthony Colve, was appointed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam.

Detailed explanation-5: -The city surrendered to the British, who then proceeded to not only take over New Amsterdam but all of New Netherland which included all of New York State and parts of New England and New Jersey. It would be unfair not to look at the positive aspects of Stuyvesant’s eighteen year rule over the colony of New Amsterdam.