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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
The company's first expedition was led by Peter Minuit, who had been governor of New Netherland from 1626 to 1631, and landed in Delaware Bay in March 1638. The settlers founded Fort Christina at the site of modern-day Wilmington, Delaware, and made treaties with Indigenous peoples for land ownership on both sides of the Delaware River.
1626 - Peter Minuit purchases Manhattan. 1627 – George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore abandons the Province of Avalon. 1627- Barbados founded by the English. 1628 – Dorchester Company reorganized as the New England Company. 1629 – New England Company reorganized as the Massachusetts Bay Company.
He was replaced as the company director of New Netherland by Peter Minuit in 1626. According to the writer Nathaniel Benchley, to legally safeguard the settlers' investments, possessions and farms on Manhattan island, Minuit negotiated the "purchase" of Manhattan from a band of Canarse from Brooklyn who occupied the bottom quarter of Manhattan ...
New Sweden established around the southern Delaware River by Peter Minuit. 1639 – Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony signed. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut adopted and the Crown formally recognizes the Virginia Assembly.
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 ...
March 29: Peter Minuit and others arrive at what is known today as Swedes' Landing, in the Swedish colony of New Sweden. Fort Christina built on behalf of the Swedish South Company; settlement known as Christinaham. [1] 1655 - Fort taken from Swedes by Dutch forces of Peter Stuyvesant. [1] 1664 - English in power. [1]