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Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
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Peter Minuit
3rd Director of New Netherland (1626–31)
Peter Minuit was a Walloon merchant and politician who was the 3rd Director of the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1631, and 3rd Governor of New Netherland. He founded the Swedish colony of New Sweden on the Delaware Peninsula in 1638.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Manhattan
Borough and county in New York, US
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York. Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)