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Who was Peter Stuyvesant

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Peter Stuyvesant was the director general of the Dutch colony of New Netherlands and was its governor from 1647 to 1664.

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Peter Stuyvesant in Dutch also Pieter and Petrus Stuyvesant); (1592–1672) served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.

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