Peter Gerard Stuyvesant

Stuyvesant was one of the largest and wealthiest land owners in New York City, second only to [[John Jacob Astor]] in terms of wealth and property in all of the United States.{{cite news |last1=Schulz |first1=Dana |title=Peter Stuyvesant's NYC: From the Bouwerie Farm to That Famous Pear Tree {{!}} 6sqft |url=https://www.6sqft.com/peter-stuyvesants-nyc-from-the-bouwerie-farm-to-that-famous-pear-tree/ |access-date=9 June 2018 |work=6sqft |date=November 5, 2014}} He owned the 60 acre Stuyvesant family ''bouwerie'' (or farm) which he developed into residential housing from [[Houston Street]] to [[23rd Street (Manhattan)|23rd Street]].{{cite news |last1=Dunning |first1=Jennifer |title=Metropolitan Baedeker; EXPLORING THE HISTORIC STUYVESANT SQUARE AREA |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/12/arts/metropolitan-baedeker-exploring-the-historic-stuyvesant-square-area.html |access-date=9 June 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 12, 1982 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Guide to the Stuyvesant-Rutherford Papers 1647-1917 (bulk 1840-1917) MS 605 |url=https://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/stuyruth/ |website=dlib.nyu.edu |publisher=[[New-York Historical Society]] |access-date=9 June 2018}} Stuyvesant lived in one of the Stuyvesant country homes, known as Petersfield, overlooking the [[East River]] between [[16th Street (Manhattan)|16th]] and [[17th Street (Manhattan)|17th Street]]s until 1825 when he sold the house and 200 lots for $100,000.{{cite web |title=ST. MARK'S HISTORIC DISTRICT, Borough of Manhattan |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/StMarks.pdf |website=www.nyc.gov |publisher=Landmarks Preservation Commission |access-date=9 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214411/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/StMarks.pdf |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }} He then built his home on the northwest corner of [[11th Street (Manhattan)|11th Street]] and [[Second Avenue (Manhattan)|Second avenue]] directly opposite [[St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery|St. Mark's Church]]. In 1846, the then [[Mayor of New York]], [[Philip Hone]], wrote in his famous diary of having "dined with Stuyvesant in his splendid new house in the Second avenue near St Mark's Church."{{cite book |last1=New York (State) Legislature Assembly |title=Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York |date=1916 |publisher=E. Croswell |page=142 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UvlsvGspTbsC&pg=PA142 |access-date=9 June 2018 |language=en}}

Stuyvesant was one of the largest and wealthiest land owners in New York City, second only to [[John Jacob Astor]] in terms of wealth and property in all of the United States.{{cite news |last1=Schulz |first1=Dana |title=Peter Stuyvesant's NYC: From the Bouwerie Farm to That Famous Pear Tree {{!}} 6sqft |url=https://www.6sqft.com/peter-stuyvesants-nyc-from-the-bouwerie-farm-to-that-famous-pear-tree/ |access-date=9 June 2018 |work=6sqft |date=November 5, 2014}} He owned the 60 acre Stuyvesant family ''bouwerie'' (or farm) which he developed into residential housing from [[Houston Street]] to [[23rd Street (Manhattan)|23rd Street]].{{cite news |last1=Dunning |first1=Jennifer |title=Metropolitan Baedeker; EXPLORING THE HISTORIC STUYVESANT SQUARE AREA |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/12/arts/metropolitan-baedeker-exploring-the-historic-stuyvesant-square-area.html |access-date=9 June 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 12, 1982 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Guide to the Stuyvesant-Rutherford Papers 1647-1917 (bulk 1840-1917) MS 605 |url=https://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/stuyruth/ |website=dlib.nyu.edu |publisher=[[New-York Historical Society]] |access-date=9 June 2018}} Stuyvesant lived in one of the Stuyvesant country homes, known as Petersfield, overlooking the [[East River]] between [[16th Street (Manhattan)|16th]] and [[17th Street (Manhattan)|17th Street]]s until 1825 when he sold the house and 200 lots for $100,000.{{cite web |title=ST. MARK'S HISTORIC DISTRICT, Borough of Manhattan |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/StMarks.pdf |website=www.nyc.gov |publisher=Landmarks Preservation Commission |access-date=9 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214411/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/StMarks.pdf |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }} He then built his home on the northwest corner of [[11th Street (Manhattan)|11th Street]] and [[Second Avenue (Manhattan)|Second avenue]] directly opposite [[St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery|St. Mark's Church]]. In 1846, the then [[Mayor of New York]], [[Philip Hone]], wrote in his famous diary of having "dined with Stuyvesant in his splendid new house in the Second avenue near St Mark's Church."{{cite book |last1=New York (State) Legislature Assembly |title=Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York |date=1916 |publisher=E. Croswell |page=142 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UvlsvGspTbsC&pg=PA142 |access-date=9 June 2018 |language=en}}

Stuyvesant was a founder and the seventh president of the [[New-York Historical Society]], serving from 1836 until 1839.{{cite web|author=Robert William Glenrole Vail|title=Knickerbocker birthday; a sesqui-centennial history of the New-York Historical Society 1804-1805|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000007193992;view=1up;seq=7|website=[[Hathi Trust]] Digital Library|access-date=31 March 2017}}

Stuyvesant was a founder and the seventh president of the [[New-York Historical Society]], serving from 1836 until 1839.{{cite web|author=Robert William Glenrole Vail|title=Knickerbocker birthday; a sesqui-centennial history of the New-York Historical Society 1804-1805|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000007193992;view=1up;seq=7|website=[[HathiTrust]] Digital Library|access-date=31 March 2017}}

He was also a founder (along with author [[Washington Irving]]) and the first president of the [[Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York]], an organization of men who are descended from early inhabitants of the [[State of New York]], serving from 1835 to 1836.{{cite book |url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/portraits-of-the-presidents-of-the-society-1835-1914/oclc/682402324?title=&detail=&page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.hathitrust.org%2Fapi%2Fvolumes%2Foclc%2F7568718.html%26checksum%3D414fd18f4a7b2a46eedcba9bc05e5aa4&linktype=digitalObject |title=Portraits of the presidents of the society, 1835-1914 |last1=Youngs |first1=Florence Evenlyn Pratt |year=1914 |publisher=The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York |oclc=682402324 |access-date=24 December 2011}}

He was also a founder (along with author [[Washington Irving]]) and the first president of the [[Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York]], an organization of men who are descended from early inhabitants of the [[State of New York]], serving from 1835 to 1836.{{cite book |url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/portraits-of-the-presidents-of-the-society-1835-1914/oclc/682402324?title=&detail=&page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.hathitrust.org%2Fapi%2Fvolumes%2Foclc%2F7568718.html%26checksum%3D414fd18f4a7b2a46eedcba9bc05e5aa4&linktype=digitalObject |title=Portraits of the presidents of the society, 1835-1914 |last1=Youngs |first1=Florence Evenlyn Pratt |year=1914 |publisher=The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York |oclc=682402324 |access-date=24 December 2011}}