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Stuyvesant


1827 Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1659 Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in U.S.)

1655 Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft. Casimir from Swedish in Delaware

1655 New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service

1655 Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam

1648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen


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