Peter Stuyvesant Quotes

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear. - Peter Stuyvesant

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony. - Peter Stuyvesant

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants. - Peter Stuyvesant

The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals. - Peter Stuyvesant

The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here. - Peter Stuyvesant

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. - Peter Stuyvesant

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg. - Peter Stuyvesant

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted. - Peter Stuyvesant

Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. - Peter Stuyvesant

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand. - Peter Stuyvesant

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