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Peter Stuyvesant [1612-1672] Dutch

Rank: 102
Public Servant, Political figure

Peter Stuyvesant 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. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City.

Design, Patience

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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.	Patience	101
I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.		102
I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.		103
It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.		104
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.		105
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.	Design	106
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.		107
It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.		108
Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.		109
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.		110
The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.		111
The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.		112
To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.		113

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