PETER STUYVESANT

We are a trading corporation, not a body of sectarian propagandists, and therefore discourage any intolerance.

The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

No person shall be allowed to do the ordinary and customary labors of his calling, such as Sowing, Mowing, Building, Sawing Wood, Smithing, Bleeching, Hunting, Fishing, or any works allowable on other days, under the penalty of One Pound Flemish;.... much less any idle or unallowed exercises and sports, such as Drinking to excess, frequenting Inns or Taphouses, Dancing, Card-Playing, Tick-tacking, Playing at ball, Playing at bowls, Playing at nine-pins, taking jaunts in Boats, Wagons, or Carriages, before between, or during Divine Service

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.

No person shall be allowed to do the ordinary and customary labors of his calling, such as Sowing, Mowing, Building, Sawing Wood, Smithing, Bleeching, Hunting, Fishing, or any works allowable on other days, under the penalty of One Pound Flemish;.... much less any idle or unallowed exercises and sports, such as Drinking to excess, frequenting Inns or Taphouses, Dancing, Card-Playing, Tick-tacking, Playing at ball, Playing at bowls, Playing at nine-pins, taking jaunts in Boats, Wagons, or Carriages, before between, or during Divine Service

… blasphemous enemies of the name of Christ

We derive our authority from God and the West India Company, not from the pleasure of a few ignorant subjects.

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.