Governor Peter Stuyvesant was at first unwilling to accept them but succumbed to pressure from the Dutch West India Company--itself pressed by Jewish stockholders--to let them remain.
His neighbors were David Dunham, Cornelius Dubois, and the Stuyvesant family.
On March 20, 1663, he was appointed to be a magistrate for the Dutch Governor, Peter Stuyvesant.
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The house stands on land previously belonging to the farm of Nicholas Bayard, Peter Stuyvesant's brother-in-law, and is one of seven houses that was built as an investment by Charles Starr, a bookbinder, whose business was on Nassau Street.
The Holder Dealer Team Commodore finished a lap ahead of Allan Moffat and Japanese driver Yoshimi Katayama in their Peter Stuyvesant sponsored Mazda RX-7.
In 1972 a left-wing group called the Allamuchy Tribe, led by activists Rennie Davis and Jerry Rubin and funded by ex-Beatle John Lennon, met at the Peter Stuyvesant Farm in Allamuchy to organize protests against the 1972 Republican National Convention.
In 1988 he sprayed Notes in the Wind measuring 178 x 178 centimetres to be exhibited and eventually to be owned by the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation in Zevenaar, Netherlands.
Imperial Tobacco hires public venues to promote its Peter Stuyvesant brand.