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Peter Minuit is known for purchasing Manhattan Island from the Lenape Native Americans in 1626 on behalf of the Dutch West India Company, establishing the settlement of New Amsterdam (later New York City). This transaction played a crucial role in the Dutch colonization of the Americas.

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