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	Peter Minuit
		Peter Minuit (1580 - 1638), born in Wesel[?], Duchy of Cleves[?] (present-day Germany), was the first general director of the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
		Peter Minuit's Huguenot family was one of many that escaped the Spanish government of the Netherlands and found refuge in German Protestant parts of the empire.
		Peter himself was born in a time of great upheavals and struggles by Protestants against the Catholics, which culminated in the Thirty Years' War and finally led to an exhausted Peace of Westphalia a century later.
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		Minuit's Walloon family was one of many Protestant families that escaped the Spanish government of the Spanish Netherlands (Low Countries) now known as Belgium, and found refuge in the Dutch Republic and Protestant parts of the Holy Roman Empire.
		Minuit was appointed the third director-general of New Netherland by the Dutch West India Company, in December 1625, and arrived in the colony on May 4, 1626.
		Minuit finished Fort Christiana that year, then departed to return to Stockholm, Sweden for a second load of colonists, and made a side trip to the Caribbean to pick up a shipment of tobacco for resale in Europe to make the voyage profitable.
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	Peter Minuit
		Peter Minuit was a Walloon whose protestant parents had moved from Doornik, Henegouwen in the southern Netherlands, which then included present-day Belgium, to Wesel in Germany, in order to escape from the Catholic Spanish colonials, who were not favorably deposed to those people who had left the Catholic Church to become Protestants.
		Peter Minuit's tenure as governor general was rather uneventful in comparison with earlier or later governor generals of the Dutch colony.
		Peter Minuit is the other governor general who is well known probably largely because he made the historic purchase of Manhattan from the Indians.
	www.nnp.org /nni/Publications/Dutch-American/minuit.html (779 words)

	Peter Minuit Encyclopedia Article @ HarlemBoys.com (Harlem Boys) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Peter Minuit (1580–August 5, 1638) was a Dutch-Walloon from Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, then part of the Duchy of Cleves.
		Minuit's Walloon family was one of many Protestant families that escaped the Spanish government of the Netherlands (Low Countries) and found refuge in the Dutch Republic and Protestant parts of the Holy Roman Empire.
		Peter Minuit is one of the 'Founding Fathers' that could be found in the game Colonization developed by Sid Meier for Microprose.
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	Peter Minuit
		Peter took over the management of the household and his father’s business in the Loew quarter which was the part of the city heading south.
		Minuit’s wife Gertrud moved to her relatives in Cleve first, whereas her husband had enrolled on the list for the directors meeting of the Dutch-West Indian Company in Amsterdam.
		Peter Minuit had bought the land on which later on New York was built up for about 60 gulden – the amount the goods he gave the Red Indians cost.
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		Peter Minuit is best known as the man who bought the island of Manhattan from the Indians for the legendary sum of 60 Dutch guilders, or $24.00.
		Born in Wesel, Germany, in 1580, Minuit was a Walloon (a Belgian, French-speaking Protestant) whose family fled persecution at the hands of the Spanish army and settled in the Netherlands.
		Peter Minuit is commemorated today by Peter Minuit Plaza, a small park at the foot of Manhattan; by a granite flagstaff base in Battery Park, which depicts the historical purchase; by P.S 108 Peter Minuit School; and by the Peter Minuit Chapter, NSDAR.
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	Peter Minuit - South Africa
		Minuit's Walloon family was one of many Protestant families that escaped the Spanish government of the Spanish Netherlands (Low Countries) now known as Belgium, and found refuge in the Dutch Republic and Protestant parts of the Holy Roman Empire.
		Peter himself was born in a time of great upheavals and struggles by Protestants against Catholics, which culminated in the Thirty Years' War and finally led to an exhausted Peace of Westphalia a century later.
		Minuit finished Fort Christiana that year, then departed to return to Stockholm, Sweden for a second load of colonists, and made a side trip to the Caribbean to pick up a shipment of tobacco for resale in Europe to make the voyage profitable.
	peter-minuit.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Peter_Minuit (864 words)

	Peter Minuit Summary
		Of Huguenot Walloon descent, Peter Minuit was born in Wesel on the German Rhine.
		Peter Minuit (1589–August 5, 1638) was a Walloon from Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, then part of the Duchy of Cleves.
		Minuit's Walloon family was one of many Protestant families that escaped the Spanish government of the Netherlands and found refuge in the Dutch Netherlands and Protestant parts of the Holy Roman Empire.
	www.bookrags.com /Peter_Minuit (1096 words)

	Peter Minuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Minuit (1580–August 5, 1638) was a Belgian Walloon from Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, then part of the Duchy of Cleves.
		Minuit's Walloon family was one of many Protestant families that escaped the Spanish government of the Spanish Netherlands (Low Countries) now known as Belgium, and found refuge in the Dutch Republic and Protestant parts of the Holy Roman Empire.
		In 1636 or 1637, Minuit made arrangements with Samuel Blommaert and the Swedish government to create the first Finno-Swedish colony in the New World.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Minuit (634 words)

	Peter Minuit - wiki.allbarwniki.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Peter Minuit (1589 â“ August 5, 1638) was a Walloon from Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, then part of the Duchy of Cleves.
		However, the Canarsee were actually native to Brooklyn, while Manhattan was home instead to the Weckquaesgeek, who were not pleased by the exchange and later battled the Dutch in Kieft's War.
		This figure is known from a letter by Peter Schagen to the board of the Dutch West India Company: a traditional conversion to US$ 14 using 17th century exchange rates is not particularly meaningful.
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	PETER MINUIT PLAYGROUND - Historical Sign
		Peter Minuit (1580-1638), born in Wesel, Germany, was a French-speaking Protestant (his name means ¡§midnight¡¨ in French) whose family had fled to the Netherlands to escape the persecution of the Spanish Army.
		Minuit served as leader of the 270 residents of New Amsterdam until 1633.
		In addition to this playground and school, Minuit is also honored by Peter Minuit Plaza at the foot of Manhattan and by a granite flagstaff base in Battery Park depicting his purchase.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=7844 (492 words)

	Minuit Hints
		Minuit is the most common minimization software in use in high energy physics, especially for cases with many variable parameters.
		Keeping Minuit out of undefined regions: In some cases, Minuit may have a tendency to wander into regions where the function to be minimized (FCN) is not defined (e.g.
		Difficult cases: In cases where Minuit just can't locate the minimum, some preliminary fits, in which some subset of the parameters are fixed, may help.
	www-cdf.fnal.gov /physics/statistics/recommendations/minuit.html (839 words)

	Peter Minuit - Wikipedia
		Jean Minuit zog das Exil der spanisch-katholischen Unterdrückung durch die habsburgischen Statthalter in den Niederlanden vor.
		Jahrhunderts muss Minuit aber in den Dienst der Niederländischen Westindien-Kompanie (WIC) eingetreten sein.
		Nun lautete sein Auftrag aber, Willem Verhulst, den dortigen unfähigen Gouverneur der Kolonie Nieuw-Nederland, abzulösen. Der gelernte Kaufmann bewies in dieser Aufgabe Geschick und sorgte rasch für ein ansehnliches Bevölkerungs- und Wirtschaftswachstum der Kolonie.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Minuit (647 words)

	Peter Minuit Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Peter Minuit (1580-1638) was director general of the New Netherland colony in America and founder of New Amsterdam.
		Presumably Minuit had not planned to stay in America, for he sent for his wife only after his appointment as first director general.
		Both Minuit and Remunde were recalled to Holland for an investigation.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/peter-minuit (490 words)

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		Peter Minuit (1580-1638) became the first Dutch colonial governor and director-general in America.
		Minuit was born in Wesel, Germany, but moved to the Netherlands when he was a young man. He bought Manhattan Island from the Manhat Indians in 1626 for trinkets costing sixty Dutch guilders, or about $24 (inflation $75) American.
		Minuit made New Amsterdam, on the lower half of the island, the center of the companies activities, seat of government, and chief port.
	www.vigoschools.org /~wlsnms/8-2/geopage/minuit.doc (743 words)

	AllRefer.com - Peter Minuit (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Peter Minuit[min´yOOit] Pronunciation Key, c.1580–1638, first director-general of New Netherland, b.
		Sent by the Dutch West India Company to take charge of its holdings in America, Minuit purchased (1626) Manhattan from the Native Americans for trade goods costing 60 Dutch guilders and made New Amsterdam (later New York City) its center.
		Dismissed by the company in 1631, he later entered into negotiations with the Swedes and headed (1638) the group sent out to found New Sweden.
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	New Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Minuit was to become the first governor of the newly established colony of New Sweden.
		Minuit made good on his appointment by landing on the west side of the river, gathered the Chiefs of the local Native American Tribes, held a conclave in his cabin on the Kalmar Nyckel, and got them to sign some deeds he had prepared for the purpose to solve any issue with the Dutch.
		Minuit finished Fort Christina during 1638, then departed to return to Stockholm for a second load, and made a side trip to the Caribbean to pick up a shipment of tobacco for resale in Europe to make the voyage profitable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Sweden (1063 words)

	Peter Minuit - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Peter Minuit - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Minuit, Peter (1580-1638), Dutch colonial governor in America, who helped establish New Amsterdam, the settlement that became New York City.
		The Dutch East India Company established the first permanent European settlement in what is now New York City in 1624.
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	The Straight Dope: How much would the $24 paid for Manhattan be worth in today's money?
		According to Peter Wolf (Land in America, 1981), the total value of all land in the U.S. in 1975 was $1.3 trillion.
		As a followup to your discussion of whether or not Peter Minuit got a bargain when he paid only $24 worth of trinkets for Manhattan, there is one added factor.
		Minuit the bargain of the century, the Canarsie Indians may have actually sold him the proverbial Brooklyn Bridge.
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	Irene Dispatch
		Minuit built a fort to house his men, naming it "Fort Christina" after the Queen of Sweden.
		Minuit was faced with another problem: the Dutch had claimed this land decades ago.
		Depending on how you look at it, Peter Minuit and his Swedish colony were invaders who snatched the Lenape's land, or crooks who took the land from the Dutch.
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	PETER WALSH PROJECTS - Case Study (BLock 87)
		Mythology (and a second-hand hearsay account contained in a contemporaneous letter) has Dutch West India Company Director Peter Minuit purchasing, on behalf of the Company, parts of Manhattan in May-June 1626 from on-site natives later determined to be simply traveling in the area.
		Minuit likely believed he had purchased a clear, permanent deed to the land.
		It is unlikely that the Lenape leaders who participated in a later “re-purchase” agreement (after pointing out that the first deal was cut by non-Manhattan visitors) had any such conception of absolute property rights of the kind that Europeans had devised after a thousand years of argument, adaptations and precedents.
	www.peterwalshprojects.us /CaseStudyPages/Block87Conveyances.html (884 words)

	New York City Guide: Minuit, Peter
		Peter Minuit got the world’s best deal in real estate when he bought Manhattan Island from local Indian tribes for about twenty–four dollars in trade goods in 1628.
		No one could have predicted that in three hundred years the swampy, overgrown island would become the center of the world, almost completely paved over and connected to the mainland by a network of bridges and tunnels.
		Peter Minuit was also the director–general of the New Netherlands colony, and he helped to facilitate fur shipments for the Dutch East India Company.
	www.opuspublishing.com /nycguide/famous_new_yorkers/minuit_peter.html (89 words)

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	Peter Minuit
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