Peter Stuyvesant
# Peter Stuyvesant

Peter Stuyvesant (também Pieter ou Petrus) (Peperga, 1612 - agosto de 1672) foi um político e militar holandês que serviu como o último diretor-geral holandês da colônia de Novos Países Baixos, a partir de 1647, até que foi cedido provisoriamente em 1664.
       - The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here, but learning that they (with their customary usury and deceitful trading with the Christians) were very repugnant to the inferior magistrates (...) deemed it useful to require them in a friendly way to depart; praying also most seriously in this connection, for ourselves also for the general community (...) that the deceitful race — such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ — not be allowed further to infect and trouble this new colony.
          - Carta aos diretores da Companhia das Índias Ocidentais, 1654. Cf. Shapers of the Great Debate on the Freedom of Religion: A Biographical Dictionary de Jonathan Wright, 2005.