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Peter Minuit

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Noun1.Peter Minuit - Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 (1580-1638)Peter Minuit - Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 (1580-1638)
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1626: Manhattan island was bought from local Indians by Dutch settler Peter Minuit for trinkets worth about 25 dollars.
ON THIS DAY IN .. by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
1626: Manhattan island was bought from local Indians by Dutch settler Peter Minuit for trinkets worth about 25 dollars.
OnThisDay by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
1626: Manhattan island was bougs ht from local Indians by Dutch settler Peter Minuit for trinkets worth about 25 dollars.
On this day by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
 
 
 
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