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Peter Stuyvesant
Dutch
Public Servant
About the author
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,
Dutch
Public Servant
#War
#Peace
#England
#Praise
#Possessions
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,
Dutch
Public Servant
#Christ
#Trouble
#Enemies
#Race
#Name
To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.
Peter Stuyvesant,
Dutch
Public Servant
#Profit
#Company
The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.
Peter Stuyvesant,
Dutch
Public Servant
#People
#Morals
The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.
Peter Stuyvesant,
Dutch
Public Servant
I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
Peter Stuyvesant,
Dutch
Public Servant
#Heart
#Tranquility
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,
Dutch
Public Servant
#Patience
#Treatment
Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.
Peter Stuyvesant,
Dutch
Public Servant
#Will
#Day
#March
#Force
#Tomorrow
It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
Peter Stuyvesant,
Dutch
Public Servant
#Anxiety
It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.
Peter Stuyvesant,
Dutch
Public Servant
#Intention
I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.
Peter Stuyvesant,
Dutch
Public Servant
#Value
#Christian
#Blood
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
Peter Stuyvesant,
Dutch
Public Servant
#Right
#Succeed
#Loss
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,
Dutch
Public Servant
#Reform
#Design
#Possessions
#EnglForce