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Minuit

noun
1.
Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 (1580-1638).  Synonyms: Minnewit, Peter Minnewit, Peter Minuit.



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"Minuit" Quotes from Famous Books



... sympathies was held by the Knickerbockers—those sturdy old citizens who seemed all of them somehow to have taken something of the mold of their redoubtable leader and the greatest of them all, Peter Stuyvesant. Smith was familiar with them all, from Peter down. And old Minuit, the Indian, selling his island for a song, was so much a matter of reality to Smith that Helen came to believe in him also as a ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble

... Peter Minuit, a German, born at Wesel, was appointed Director-General of New Netherland. He bought of the Indians, for the sum of twenty-four dollars, the entire island of Manhattan, and a fort called New Amsterdam was built. The State of New York dates ...
— History of the United States, Vol. I (of VI) • E. Benjamin Andrews



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