Peter Minuit buys Manhattan Island in 1626 from American Indian people, with trade goods worth around US$24. Peter Minuit, aka Pieter Minuit, Pierre Minuit or Peter Minnewit, – 1638. Director of the Dutch colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1631, and founder of the Swedish colony of New Sweden in 1638.

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Peter Minuit buys Manhattan Island in 1626 from American Indian people, with trade goods worth around US$24. Peter Minuit, aka Pieter Minuit, Pierre Minuit or Peter Minnewit, – 1638. Director of the Dutch colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1631, and founder of the Swedish colony of New Sweden in 1638. From The History of Our Country, published 1899

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