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Petrus Stuyvesant

Ancestry of
Petrus Stuyvesant

(c1592–1672)

    Petrus Stuyvesant

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    • 1st Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 1 
    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1592 
    • Birth Location:
    • Peperga, Friesland, Netherlands 
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    • Death Date:
    • Aug 1672 
    • Death Location:
    • New York, New York 
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    • Notes: 

    • 7th Director-General of New Amsterdam

      Petrus Stuyvesant was the last Dutch Governor of New York from 1647 until it was ceded to the British in 1664.

      Petrus Stuyvesant's given name is also seen as Peter.

  • Marriages for Petrus Stuyvesant

    • Spouse:
    • Judith Bayard
    • Marriage Date:
    • ABT 1645
    • Marriage Location:
    • Amsterdam, Holland

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  • Sources for Petrus Stuyvesant

    • 1 NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 81.
    • 2 Aitken, William B., Distinguished Families in America: Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke, New York: The Knickerbocker Press (1912), 10.
    • 3 Effingham de Forest, Louis, ed., Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, New York: Printed by order of the Society (1923), 49.
    • 4 Reynolds, Cuyler, ed., Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, Vol. 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 292-293.