Ebook Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley

The Dutch family of Stuyvesant has had an uninterrupted male continuance to the present time in America, although, from the beginning, but meagrely represented in the male line. The first, second, third, and fourth generations each provided but a single person to hand down the family name. It has main tained an 'honorable and useful position in each successive generation. Says a genealog ical writer: The career of the Stuyvesant family since the time of Peter, the Governor, has been marked by scholarship and social prestige rather than by political, military, and commercial genius. It has been wealthy from the first generation, and has used its wealth wisely and well. Its members have been re ligious, and identified with charitable, educa tional, and other public spirited movements. They' have attended to all social duties and from the landing of the bluff governor to the present time, have dispensed hospitality to all who came within their circle. Through mar riage they have become related to many other colonial families, but their relations have been mainly local, so that the name is essentially a New York name. Upon the metropolis their name is stamped indelibly; Bowling Green, Whitehall and the Battery, are mute witnesses to the Old governor, and Stuyvesant Square of his ancient country seat.