Stuyvesant
Current regionNew York City
Place of originNetherlands
MembersPeter Stuyvesant
Connected familiesBayard family
Fish family
Astor family
Estate(s)Stuyvesant Square
Stuyvesant–Fish House
2 East 79th Street

The Stuyvesant family is a family of American politicians and landowners in New York City. The family is of Dutch origin and is descended from Peter Stuyvesant (1610–1672), who was born in Peperga, Friesland, Netherlands and served as the last Dutch Director-General of New Netherland.[1][2]

Members

Portrait of Gov. Peter Stuyvesant, attributed to Hendrick Couturier, c. 1660
Portrait of Peter Stuyvesant (1727–1805) by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1793–1795.
Gov. Stuyvesant's house, erected 1658, afterwards called The Whitehall
Augustus and Anne Van Horne Stuyvesant's home at 2 East 79th Street
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's statue of Peter Stuyvesant in the western half of Stuyvesant Square
Mathilde, Countess de Wassanaer wife of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant

Legacy

Peter Stuyvesant, the son of a Calvinist minister,[4] and his family were large landowners in the northeastern portion of New Amsterdam arising from his period as the last Dutch Director-General of New Netherland.[6] Stuyvesant was known as:

"a man of strong individuality, great firmness and remarkable foresight, he so impressed himself upon the affairs that the story of his life from 1647 to 1664 is practically a history of the colony during that period."[6]

Currently, the Stuyvesant name is associated with several places in Manhattan's East Side, near present-day Gramercy Park: the Stuyvesant Town housing complex; Stuyvesant Square, a park in the area; and the Stuyvesant Apartments on East 18th Street, and Stuyvesant Street.[a][12]

His farm, called the "Bouwerij" – the seventeenth-century Dutch word for "farm" – was the source for the name of the Manhattan street and surrounding neighborhood named "The Bowery".[13][14] The contemporary neighborhood of Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn includes Stuyvesant Heights and retains its name.[15]

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Notes
  1. ^ Stuyvesant Street is one of the oldest streets in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs diagonally from 9th Street at Third Avenue to 10th Street near Second Avenue.
  2. ^ Augustus and his sister Anne, lived at a mansion at 2 East 79th Street at Fifth Avenue designed by Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert.[36]
  3. ^ Margaret was the niece and adopted daughter of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant.[49][50]
  4. ^ In 1847, six year old Stuyvesant Rutherfurd changed his name to Rutherfurd Stuyvesant to conform with the will of his mother's great-uncle (and adopted father), Peter Gerard Stuyvesant, who died childless, in order to inherit the Stuyvesant fortune.[51]
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