As a character he was the villain of the 1938 Weill and Anderson musical Knickerbocker Holiday  and famously sang "September Song" in the show.
As a character he was the villain of the 1938 Weill and Anderson musical Knickerbocker Holiday  and famously sang "September Song" in the show. In real life, though, he was the governor of Curaçao who carried out an April, 1644 attack on Spanish-held Saint Martin, where he received a wound which led to his nickname. In 1645, the Dutch West India Company sent him to replace the ineffective Willem Kieft as governor of the colony of New Netherland. Among his accomplishments were building the wall on Wall Street and the canal that became Broadway. For 10 points, name this Director-General of New Netherland from 1647 until 1664, when it was ceded to the British, and whose nickname because of his 1644 amputation was "Pegleg Pete."
As a character he was the villain of the 1938 Weill and Anderson musical Knickerbocker Holiday  and famously sang "September Song" in the show.
Peter Stuyvesant