“I shall govern you as a father his children.”
Liberty Magazine : What he told to colonists when he arrived.
Petrus Stuyvesant war ab 1643 Gouverneur von Curaçao und ab 1647 Generaldirektor der von der Niederländischen Westindien-Kompanie verwalteten Kolonie Nieuw Nederland, bevor diese 1664 von England in Besitz genommen wurde. Wikipedia
“I shall govern you as a father his children.”
Liberty Magazine : What he told to colonists when he arrived.
“Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.”
History of the State of New York By John Romeyn Brodhead, pg 508 : 1660 on the education of Youth.
Liberty Magazine : On complaints by frontier folks on his reforms.