1827 Birthday Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1659 Event Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in U.S.) 1655 Event Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft. Casimir from Swedish in Delaware 1655 Event New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service 1655 Event Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam 1648 Event Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
