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