Peter Stuyvesant

Peter Stuyvesant

male, deceased (1672)
Pieter Stuyvesant, Dutch colonial governors and administrator, New York colonial, governor of new jersey, colony, American…newamsterdam, New Netherland, Director-General of New Netherland
Pieter Stuyvesant (c. 1612 - August 1672) often Anglicized to Peter Stuyvesant, served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New...
Russell Shorto

Russell Shorto

male
research, Dutch origins, Saints and Madmen, The Island at the Center of the World, Gentlemen's Quarterly, The New York Times Magazine…newamsterdam
Russell Shorto is the author of a book on the Dutch origins of New York City: "The Island at the Center of the World". He often writes for The New...

Christian Taylor

male
lost, newamsterdam, miracles, Six Feet Under, American, Screenwriter
"Christian Taylor" is an award winning screenwriter known for his work on the American television drama "Six Feet Under". He also wrote, directed...
Richard Nicolls

Richard Nicolls

male, deceased (1672)
restoration, Royalist in the English Civil War, English Restoration, English, Duke of York, suffolk…newamsterdam, New Netherland, Colonial Governor of New York
Richard Nicolls (born 1624 in Ampthill, Bedfordshire; died May 28, 1672 on the North Sea, off Suffolk) was the first British colonial governor of...
Wouter van Twiller

Wouter van Twiller

male
dutch, Dutch American, new england, newamsterdam, New Netherland, Director-General…Director-General of New Netherland
Wouter van Twiller (Nijkerk, May 22 1606 - 1654) was an employee of the Dutch West India Company and the director-general of the Dutch colony of...
Willem Kieft

Willem Kieft

male, deceased (1647)
Dutch colonial governors and administrator, American colonial, New Netherland, Director-General, newamsterdam, New York colonial
Willem Kieft (1597-1647) was a Dutch merchant and director-general of New Netherland (of which New Amsterdam, later New York City, was the primary...
Adriaen van der Donck

Adriaen van der Donck

male, deceased (1655)
Republican, dutch, Dutch American, Native American, Ethnographer, colonial america…newamsterdam, New Netherland, Description of New Netherland, New Netherland Project
Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck (ca. 1618 - 1655) was a lawyer and landowner in New Netherland after whose honorific "Jonkheer" the city of...
Jacob Barsimson

Jacob Barsimson

male
Jewish person, newamsterdam, pear tree, Amsterdam, Holland, Recife, Brazil, Dutch Brazil
Jacob Barsimson was one of the earliest Jewish settlers at New Amsterdam (New York City), and the earliest identified Jewish settler within the...
Frederick Philipse

Frederick Philipse

male, deceased (1702)
New York colonial, Thirty Years' War, czech, Kinsky, Kingdom of Bohemia, Bronx…newamsterdam
Frederick Philipse (1626-1702), Lord of Philipse Manor, owned the vast stretch of land spanning from Spuyten Duyvil in the Bronx to the Croton...
Augustine Herman

Augustine Herman

male, deceased (1686)
herman, newamsterdam, czech, cartography, Cartographer, chesapeake bay
Augustine Herman, First Lord of Bohemia Manor was a Czech explorer, merchant, and cartographer who lived in New Amsterdam and Cecil County,...