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Noun: Stuyvesant  stI-vi-sunt
  1. The last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England (1592-1672)
    - Peter Stuyvesant, Petrus Stuyvesant

Type of: administrator, executive

Encyclopedia: Stuyvesant, New York

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