Related person Peter Stuyvesant 1610 – 1672

Remnant of a tree planted by Peter Stuyvesant (ca. 1612–1672)

preserved in 1867

Place madeNew York, United States, North America

Pear wood

Overall: 7 × 30 × 34 in. (17.8 × 76.2 × 86.4 cm)

Gift of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant

1867.439

This fragment comes from the pear tree which was brought from Holland as a sapling by Peter Stuyvesant (1592-1672), the last director-general of New Netherland. The tree was planted at Stuyvesant's bouwery, or country estate, at what is now the northeast corner of Third Avenue and 13th Street. The tree stood until February, 1867, when a vehicle collided against it and sent it crashing to the ground.

ClassificationsHISTORIC RELICS

DescriptionCross section of pear tree mounted on wooden platform with inscription: "Section of the Old Stuyvesant pear tree four feet from the ground. Presented by Rutherfurd Stuyvesant."Published ReferencesRoger Panetta, ed. "Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture" (New York: Fordham University Press for the Hudson River Museum, 2009), 263.

Object NameTree cross section