Peter Minuit

It ' s a heroic compendium of the achievements and follies of the millions of strivers who ' ve toiled in New York since Peter Minuit page 843 bought the island that the Indians called manahactanienk — meaning, appropriately enough, " place of inebriation " — in 1626.

A Toast to Gotham, Topped-Up Edward Kosner 2010

While other cities arose where settlers happened to end up -- or where some king decided to start a kingdom -- New York came about in 1626 because a Dutch guy named Peter Minuit gave $24 worth of beads, axes, jew's-harps, hoes, awls and cloth to the local Lenape Indians.

Have We Got A Bridge For You! 2007

The first expedition, consisting of two ships, Kalmar Nyckel and Vogel Grip, under the leadership of Peter Minuit, landed about March 29.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

In 1638, a Swedish trading post and colony was established at Fort Christina now Wilmington by Dutchman Peter Minuit and a group of Swedes, Finns, and Dutch.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

Peter Minuit was to become the first governor of the newly established colony of New Sweden.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

In the spring of 1626, the Director General of the company, Peter Minuit, came to the province.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

Under the command of Peter Minuit, the company's first expedition sailed from the port of Gothenburg in late in 1637 in two ships.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

It is also home to many monuments, including one to the Walloons, a group of seventeenth-century Protestant Belgian settlers who came to New Amsterdam to escape religious persecution (Peter Minuit, director of the colony from 1626 to 1633, was a Walloon).

Before the Big Apple 2006

It was here, in 1626, that Dutch settler Peter Minuit offered local Lenape Indians trade goods in exchange for possession of the island of Manhattan.

Before the Big Apple 2006

On this day in 1626 Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island from a Native American tribe known as the Canarsee.

How the Indians Lost Their Land 2006