Person
Peter Minuit
Peter Minuit was a Walloon-born colonial governor. As director of New Netherland from 1626 he is credited with buying Manhattan from the Lenape for goods worth sixty guilders. Recalled in 1631, he later led the Swedish expedition that founded New Sweden and Fort Christina on the Delaware in 1638, and was lost at sea in a hurricane the same year.
Mentioned in 2 state histories
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