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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.
May 28, 2024 · Peter Minuit (born c. 1580, Wesel, Kleve [Germany]—died June 1638, Caribbean Sea) was a Dutch colonial governor of New Amsterdam who is mainly remembered for his fabulous purchase of Manhattan Island (the nucleus of New York City) from the Indians for trade goods worth a mere 60 guilders.
Apr 2, 2014 · 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. (1580-1638)...
Peter Minuit is the other governor general who is well known probably largely because he made the historic purchase of Manhattan from the Indians. But the reason he is well known may also be caused by the relative peace that existed in the colony during his tenure.
Peter (Pierre) Minuit (c. 1590-1638) was born in the German town of Wesel. His parents were Walloon (or French-speaking Protestant) refugees who had fled the southern Netherlands when the political situation had become unfriendly to Protestants under Catholic Spain.
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.
Jul 22, 2019 · Peter Minuit was from Tournai, present-day Belgium. He was the 3rd Director of the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland. He also founded a colony on the Delaware Peninsula in 1638 called New Sweden, which would become the first Swedish colony in the New World.
Peter Minuit. (1580?–1638). Manhattan Island is the location of part of New York City —and some of the most valuable real estate in the world. In the early 17th century Dutchman Peter Minuit purchased the entire island for the equivalent of 24 dollars.
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.
A CALVINISTIC FOUNDER OF AMERICA: PETER MINUIT. BY PROFESSOR JAMES I. GOOD, D.D., LL.D. A Calvinistic founder of America was Peter Minuit, and therefore his memory should be preserved among us. There were many Calvinistic founders of America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and indeed most of the founders of
