The third director of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, Peter Minuit is best known for "purchasing" Manhattan from a Native-American tribe in 1626.
~Biography Channel
Links:
Peter Minuit Biography http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Appletons%27_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_American_Biography/Minuit,_Peter Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Minuit Petere Minuit Biography http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/kingsv1/biosketches/peter_minuit.htm |