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Minuit

noun
1.
Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 (1580-1638).  Synonyms: Minnewit, Peter Minnewit, Peter Minuit.



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... In 1626, Peter Minuit, director for the Dutch West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians, giving for it trinkets and merchandise to the value of $24, and founding New Amsterdam as the central trading depot. From the first, the settlement was a cosmopolitan one, just as it is to-day, and in 1643, ...
— American Men of Action • Burton E. Stevenson


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