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Peter Minuit was born in Wesel, Germany between 1580 and 1585 [6] [7] into a Calvinist family [8] that had moved from the city of Tournai (presently part of Wallonia, Belgium) in the Southern Netherlands controlled by Spain, in order to avoid Spanish Catholic authorities, who were not favorably disposed toward Protestants. [9]
Peter Minuit (1580–1638) 1638: 1638: Arrived to settle the colony in March 1638 and embarked on return voyage to Sweden in June to organize a second group of settlers; Minuit died during a hurricane in the Caribbean in August 1638 [32]: p.338 — Måns Nilsson Kling (fl. 1600s) 1638: 1640
SS Peter Minuit was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.She was named after Peter Minuit, a Walloon from Tournai, in present-day Belgium.He was the 3rd Director of the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1631, and 3rd Governor of New Netherland.
New Sweden was a Swedish colony founded by Peter Minuit in 1638 along the Delaware River. The colony, centered on Fort Christina, thrived for a number of years under the administration of Johan Printz, attracting Swedish and Finnish settlers who engaged in farming and fur trading with the Lenape and Susquehannock.
Fort Christina, also called Fort Altena, was the first Swedish settlement in North America and the principal settlement of the New Sweden colony. Built in 1638 and named after Christina, Queen of Sweden, it was located approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) east of the present-day downtown Wilmington, Delaware, at the confluence of the Brandywine River and the Christina River, approximately 2 mi (3 km ...
SS Peter J. McGuire: Peter J. McGuire: 325 standard 22 July 1942: 7 September 1942: Scrapped 1968 SS Peter Lassen: Peter Lassen: 2243 standard 11 March 1944: 7 April 1944: Sold private 1947, scrapped 1968 SS Peter Minuit: Peter Minuit: 35 standard 28 January 1942: 23 April 1942: Scrapped 1963 SS Peter Moran: Peter Moran: 2584 standard 10 ...
Peter Minuit, who founded New Sweden in 1638 Pieter Schaghen's 1626 letter saying Manhattan had been purchased for 60 Dutch guilders Redraft of the Castello Plan (drawn in 1916) showing the Dutch city of New Amsterdam at Manhattan's southern tip in 1660 New Amsterdam centered in what eventually became Lower Manhattan in 1664, the year England ...
The purchase was ratified in 1630 by Peter Minuit and his council at Fort Amsterdam. The estate was further extended, on May 5, 1630, by the purchase of a tract twelve miles square (31 km²) on the coast of Cape May opposite, and the transaction was duly attested at Fort Amsterdam.