The house was destroyed by fire in 1777.
Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, the 19th-century New York developer, and his descendants are also descended from Peter Stuyvesant; however, Rutherford Stuyvesant's name was changed from Stuyvesant Rutherford in 1863 to satisfy the terms of the 1847 will of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant. His descendants include: Hamilton Fish (1808–1893), the 16th Governor of New York, a United States Senator and United States Secretary of State John Winthrop Chanler (1826–1877), a lawyer and a U.S.
ed., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York (Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1854), 3:387; Elizabeth Donnan, ed., Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America (Washington, DC : Carnegie Institution, 1930), 3:429. ==External links== Appleton's Biography Civil and Political History of New Jersey, 1848 Journal of New Netherland 1647.
ed., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York (Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1854), 3:387; Elizabeth Donnan, ed., Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America (Washington, DC : Carnegie Institution, 1930), 3:429. ==External links== Appleton's Biography Civil and Political History of New Jersey, 1848 Journal of New Netherland 1647.
Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, the 19th-century New York developer, and his descendants are also descended from Peter Stuyvesant; however, Rutherford Stuyvesant's name was changed from Stuyvesant Rutherford in 1863 to satisfy the terms of the 1847 will of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant. His descendants include: Hamilton Fish (1808–1893), the 16th Governor of New York, a United States Senator and United States Secretary of State John Winthrop Chanler (1826–1877), a lawyer and a U.S.
A pear tree that he reputedly brought from the Netherlands in 1647 remained at the corner of Thirteenth Street and Third Avenue until 1867 when it was destroyed by a storm, bearing fruit almost to the last.
Peter Stuyvesant (JA Hill, 1893) online. Whitridge, Arnold.
ed., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York (Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1854), 3:387; Elizabeth Donnan, ed., Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America (Washington, DC : Carnegie Institution, 1930), 3:429. ==External links== Appleton's Biography Civil and Political History of New Jersey, 1848 Journal of New Netherland 1647.
In the original stage production he was portrayed by Walter Huston; in the much-altered 1944 film version he was portrayed by Charles Coburn in his only singing role. c.1945 – The old time radio show Duffy's Tavern had an episode which used a newly discovered diary of Stuyvesant as a plot device. 1954–present – A cigarette brand by Philip Morris International and Imperial Tobacco with British American Tobacco is named Peter Stuyvesant.
Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, which sits on the site of Stuyvesant's family chapel. ===Descendants=== The last acknowledged direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant to bear his surname was Augustus van Horne Stuyvesant, Jr., who died a bachelor in 1953 at the age of 83 in his mansion at 2 East 79th Street.
"Peter Stuyvesant: Director General of New Netherland." History Today (May 1960) 10#4 pp 324–332. ===Primary sources=== O'Callaghan, Edmund B.
In 1963, it was purchased and placed on permanent mooring next to Anthony's Pier 4 in Boston, Massachusetts; it broke free, listed then sank during the Blizzard of 1978. 1938 – Stuyvesant is the major antagonist in the Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson musical Knickerbocker Holiday, in which he sings "September Song".
In 1963, it was purchased and placed on permanent mooring next to Anthony's Pier 4 in Boston, Massachusetts; it broke free, listed then sank during the Blizzard of 1978. 1938 – Stuyvesant is the major antagonist in the Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson musical Knickerbocker Holiday, in which he sings "September Song".
Peter Stuyvesant: New Amsterdam and the Origins of New York (Rosen, 2000) for middle schools. Merwick, Donna.
The Island at the Center of the World: the epic story of Dutch Manhattan and the forgotten colony that shaped America (New York: Doubleday, 2004). Tuckerman, Bayard.
Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2013) 212 pp * Shaw Romney, Susanah.
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