Peter Minuit was famous for purchasing Manhattan in 1626. He purchased it at a very low price from the Native Americans.
new Amsterdam
MINUIT, PETERPeter Minuit (1580-1638) was the first director general of New Amsterdam, a Dutch colony in America. Minuit was sent to the area by the Dutch West India Company. Minuit is famous for buying the island of Manhattan (in what is now New York, USA) from Native Americans in 1626. He bought the island with trinkets valued at about $24. He founded New Amsterdam on the southern tip of Manhattan. In 1631, Minuit was dismissed from the Dutch West India Company, and in 1638 headed a Swedish group that founded New Sweden (the first European settlement on the Delaware River). Minuit bought land from the Native Americans and founded Fort Christina (near what is now Wilmington, Delaware, USA). Minuit died in a hurricane in the West Indies while on a trading mission in 1638.
He came from Sweden and Holland to Canada. Thank you Mrs. Wiese (my history teacher)
the island of manhatan (then called new amsterdam)
peter minuit had found it in 1626 or 1624
Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island in 1626.
The value of manhattan island when peter minuit made his purchase in 1626 is just 60 guilders.
Peter Minuit
Peter Minuit was famous for purchasing Manhattan in 1626. He purchased it at a very low price from the Native Americans.
he had to see if the explorers were following the rules
New Netherland was led by Peter Minuit In 1626
On 24 May 1626 Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island for 50 guilders worth of trade goods from the Native Americans for the Dutch West India Company.
Peter Minuit he gave $24.00 to the Indians in Manhattan .
New York City.
25 dollars and some beads. in 1626 it was sold to a Dutchman Peter Minuit.
The local indians for $24 worth of trinkets.