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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants. Peter Stuyvesant Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg. Peter Stuyvesant Read Quote
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 Read Quote
