He was appointed as "Redresser General," of all colonial abuses.

We have but little knowledge of the early life of Peter Stuyvesant.

The West India Company had a colony upon the island of Curacoa, in the Caribbean Sea.

For some time Stuyvesant had been its efficient Director.

He was the son of a clergyman in Friesland, one of the northern provinces of the Netherlands.
He received a good academic education, becoming quite a proficient in the Latin language, of which accomplishment, it is said that he was afterwards somewhat vain.