Article: Peter Minuit

Article: Peter Minuit
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Peter Minuit Peter Minuit (1580-1638) was director general ... Netherland colony in America and founder of New Amsterdam. He later became first governor of ... Sweden. Of Huguenot Walloon descent, Peter Minuit was born in Wesel on the German Rhine ...

Article: Clashes in the colonies: Director-General Peter ...
Cobblestone;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Anthony Colve and 600 Dutch soldiers sailed into the Hudson River and seized New York and New Jersey. The Dutch renamed New Amsterdam Nieuw Orange, to honor the Netherlands' king, William of Orange. Just six months later, however, the Dutch surrendered ...

Peter Minuit. No. 25 Claremont Avenue, North of 116th ...
NYPL Digital Gallery;  January 1, 1934 ;     261 words ...

Purchase of Manhattan Island by Peter Minuit, 1626.
NYPL Digital Gallery;  January 1, 1934 ;     267 words ...

Article: New Amsterdam's New Hero: A Stubborn, Brainy Young ...
The New York Observer (New York, NY);  March 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Historically, too, New Amsterdam has long been obscure ... layman's sense of New Amsterdam's progress went like this: A man named Peter Minuit bought the island from ... is now Belgium; even Peter Minuit, the legendary purchaser ...

Article: New Amsterdam
Dictionary of American History;      587 words ...NEW AMSTERDAM NEW AMSTERDAM. In 1625, officials of the Dutch ... commercial confederation, founded New Amsterdam, which became New York City, in ... York Colony. In 1626, the director Peter Minuit bought the island of Manhattan for ...

Article: New Amsterdam: that Cosmopolitan Capital.
Cobblestone;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... new director-general, Peter Minuit, arrived and set about reorganizing ... from the Indians. Named New Amsterdam, the new town had some 270 ... ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] New Amsterdam soon acquired more houses ... accepted the challenge. New Amsterdam became the shipping hub ...