STUYVESANT, sti've-sint, Petrus, Dutch director-general of New Netherland: b. Hol land 1592; d. New York, August 1672. He served in the war in the West Indies, became director of the colony of Curacao, and,. having lost a leg in an unsuccessful attack on the Portuguese island of Saint Martin, returned to Holland in 1644. In 1645 he was appointed by the Dutch West India Company director general of New Netherland, succeeding William Kieft, who had involved the settlers in a war with the Indiana, and created general disorder. He did not arrive until 11 May 1647, when he commenced a vigorous and often arbitrary ad ministration, conciliating the savages and thoroughly restoring order. In 1650 he, ar ranged at Hartford with the New England commissioners a boundary between the Dlitch and English territories, previously undefined and a cause of frequent disputes. He was also involved in trouble with the Swedes on the south. In 1651 the Dutch built Fort Casimir on the Delaware, but the post was captured by Rising, governor of New Sweden, in 1654. To revenge this, Stuyvesant in 1655, with seven vessels and about 700 men, sailed into the Delaware, and made a conquest of the whole settlement of New Sweden, calling it New Am stel. Ten years of peace followed, disturbed only by the growing jealousy of the English, and by the civil discontents which the haughty character of Stuyvesant's administration pro voked. In 1653 a convention of the people, consisting of two deputies from each village in New Netherland, met and formulated demands that '
bassy to Hartford had no better success, The Connecticut agents made exorbitant claims to territory by virtue of the royal patent, In 1664 Charles II granted to his brother, the Duke of York, the territory from the Connecti cut to the shores of the Delaware, and in August an English fleet under Capt. Richard Nicolls appeared in the bay and demanded the 'sur render of the city. The municipality, insisted on yielding. After holding out for a short time, the governor at last consented, and the city was surrendered 3 Sept. 1664. After the capture Stuyvesant in 1665 left to report to his superiors in Holland, but afterward returned, spending the remainder of his life on his farm or bouwerij (whence the name of the street called Bowery). He lies buried in the vaults of Saint Mark's Church, The semi-burlesque account of him by Irving in the
STY, or STYE, an inflammatory swelling about the follicle of an eyelash, known in sur gery as hordeolum. It resembles a grain of barley, and is strictly only a little boil which projects from the edge of the eyelid, mostly near the great angle of the eye. It is of a dark red color, much inflamed, and much more painful than might be expected, considering its small size, partly owing to the vehemence of the inflammation, and partly to
exquisite sensibility and tension of the skin which cov ers the edge of the eyelid. On this account a sty often excites fever and restlessness in deli cate, irritable constitutions; it suppurates slowly and imperfectly; and when suppurated has no tendency to burst. It generally bursts in a few days, however, though it is generally better to puncture it. Warm-water dressings with lint and oiled silk should be applied.