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

The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.
Peter Stuyvesant

The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.
Peter Stuyvesant

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

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

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
Peter Stuyvesant

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
Peter Stuyvesant