Before their wedding, he served as a soldier with the Dutch West India Company in Brazil, where he kidnapped and raped an African woman called Francisca, fathering a daughter in 1632, according to ...

In a series of letters, the directors of the Dutch West India Company in Amsterdam, Stuyvesant’s superiors, disavowed him for his intolerance, rebuked him and demanded that he revoke the ...

On May 4, 1626, Peter Minuit arrived in New Amsterdam as the new director from the Dutch West India Company. Minuit was in his early 30s, and had been sent to diversify the trade coming out of New ...