. The city of New York. s-ed with scrupulous care after the most ap-proved European fashions. He bore himselfwith a princely air and made a strikinglypicturesque figure. Prior to this, he hadmarried in Holland, Judith Bayard; hissister Anna married Nicholas Bayard, hiswifes elder brother. The latter died soonafter, and Stuyvesant was accompanied tothe new home by his wife and his sister andthe latters three infant sons. All these wereof the ruling classes in Holland, and werehighly educated according to the standardsof the day. Although he was harshly treat-ed by the West India Company for his
. The city of New York. s-ed with scrupulous care after the most ap-proved European fashions. He bore himselfwith a princely air and made a strikinglypicturesque figure. Prior to this, he hadmarried in Holland, Judith Bayard; hissister Anna married Nicholas Bayard, hiswifes elder brother. The latter died soonafter, and Stuyvesant was accompanied tothe new home by his wife and his sister andthe latters three infant sons. All these wereof the ruling classes in Holland, and werehighly educated according to the standardsof the day. Although he was harshly treat-ed by the West India Company for his sur-render of New York, he never lost his in-terest and afTection for the little settlementoyer which he once ruled. Returning tohis farm in the Bouwerie in 1667, after hisvisit to Holland, he went into retirementand spent his remaining years in the inter-est of the Dutch Church, having erected achapel near the house on his farm, beneathwhich he built a vault, where he was buriedin February, 1672. His widow, dying in29. i68 7, left the chapel to the Dutch to the terms of the bequest, thevault was preserved, although the chapelwas allowed to fall into ruin. St. Markswas_erected on the site in 1799. From timeto time his descendants are laid beside the wall of the Second Avenue side ofthis sacred edifice can be seen the stonetablet marking his last resting place whichreads as follows: In this vault lies buriedPetrus StuyvesantLate Captain-General and Governor inChief of Amsterdam in New Nether-1 and, now called New York, and theDutch West India Islands. Died Feb-ruary 1672, aged 80 another page is shown a picture ofthis famous church at the corner of SecondAvenue, lothto nth Streets, which is stillattended by many of our oldest his return from his last visit to Hol-1 and, of which we have spoken, Stuyvesantbrought a pear tree which he planted on hisfarm. It survived and bore fruit for overtwo hundred years. It stood on the north-e
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