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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Peter Minuit, Pierre Minuit or Peter Minnewit (1580 ? August 5, 1638) was a Walloon from Wesel, today North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, then part of the Duchy of Cleves. He was the Director-General of the Dutch colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1633 and founder of the Swedish colony of New Sweden in 1638. According to tradition, he purchased the island of Manhattan from Native Americans on May 24, 1626.Peter himself was born in a time of great upheaval between Protestants and Catholics, which culminated in the Thirty Years' War. It finally led…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Peter Minuit, Pierre Minuit or Peter Minnewit (1580 ? August 5, 1638) was a Walloon from Wesel, today North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, then part of the Duchy of Cleves. He was the Director-General of the Dutch colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1633 and founder of the Swedish colony of New Sweden in 1638. According to tradition, he purchased the island of Manhattan from Native Americans on May 24, 1626.Peter himself was born in a time of great upheaval between Protestants and Catholics, which culminated in the Thirty Years' War. It finally led to the Peace of Westphalia a century later (1648) and would leave much of Germany devastated, though Rhine-Westphalia less than most of it. The neighboring Dutch Republic would briefly emerge as the dominant force in Europe.