Peter Stuyvesant: The Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam - Hardcoverby John S. C. Abbott (Author) "'Peter Stuyvesant' leads us to the Hudson, from the time when its majestic waters were disturbed only by the arrowy flight of the birch canoe, till European colonization had laid there the foundations of one of the most flourishing cities on this globe." John S. C. Abbott, Preface, 1873 American historian John S. C. Abbott wrote Peter Stuyvesant: The Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam (1873) as part of his American