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  1. Peter Stuyvesant (English: / ˈ s t aɪ v ə s ən t /; in Dutch also Pieter and Petrus Stuyvesant, Dutch: [ˈstœyvəzɑnt]; c. 1610 – August 1672) was a Dutch colonial officer who served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was ...

  2. Adriaen Courtsen Block (c. 1567 – 27 April 1627) was a Dutch private trader, privateer, and ship's captain who is best known for exploring the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages from 1611 to 1614, following the 1609 expedition by Henry Hudson. [1]

  3. 2 days ago · On May 27, 1647, he took over as Director General of New Netherland for the Dutch West India Company, telling the assembled crowd that he would “govern you as a father his children.”

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Peter_MinuitPeter Minuit - Wikipedia

    Peter Minuit (between 1580 and 1585 – August 5, 1638) was a Walloon merchant from Wesel, in present-day northwestern Germany. He was the 3rd Director of the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1631, and 3rd Governor of New Netherland.

  5. Petrus Stuyvesant is best known as New Netherland longest, most influential, and last Dutch governor, having served until the English overthrew the colony’s Dutch administration and renamed it New York in 1664.

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  6. Apr 2, 2014 · Peter Minuit. The third director of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, Peter Minuit is best known for "purchasing" Manhattan from a Native-American tribe in 1626. Updated: Aug 20, 2020....

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  8. May 23, 2018 · Peter Minuit (1580-1638) was director general of the New Netherland colony in America and founder of New Amsterdam. He later became first governor of New Sweden. Of Huguenot Walloon descent, Peter Minuit was born in Wesel on the German Rhine.

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