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Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam

CHAPTER V
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All were alike weary of its carnage and woes.

A new governor was appointed, Peter Stuyvesant.

The preceding account of the origin of the Dutch colony and its progress thus far is essential to the understanding of the long and successful administration of the new governor, whose name is one of the most illustrious in the early annals of New York.
It may be worthy of brief remark that a few weeks after the arrival of Governor Stuyvesant, Kieft embarked in the ship Princess for Holland.
The vessel was wrecked on the coast of Wales Kieft and eighty-one men, women and children sank into a watery grave.

Kieft died unlamented.
His death was generally regarded as an act of retributive justice..


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