David Pieterszoon de Vries (c. 1593 – 13 September 1655) was a Dutch navigator from the city of Hoorn.

Upon visiting the colony in 1632, however, de Vries found that the settlers had been massacred, and their fort burned to the ground.

[5][6] De Vries often acted as a mediatory go-between trying to keep the peace between the Lenape and New Netherlands Director-General William Kieft.

[7] De Vries became a leading figure in the popular uprising against Kieft in the Dutch colony which ultimately led to the Director-General's dismissal and recall for trial.

Disenchanted by the New Netherlanders' treatment of the indigenous population, he left his farm at Vriessendael in October 1643 in the wake of the Pavonia Massacre, and returned to Holland.