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What happened to Peter Minuit's ownership of Manhattan?

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According to the records I've seen, Manhattan was purchased on behalf of the West India Company (not East), which instructed Director Willem Verhulst buy native lands in 1625. read more

Minuit purchased Manhattan on behalf of the Dutch East India Company, not himself personally. The company deeded some land to individual landowners. Dutch ownership ended when the New Netherland Colony was defeated by England in the second and third Anglo-Dutch wars, which ended in 1674. read more

Peter Minuit, Pieter Minuit, Pierre Minuit, or Peter Minnewit (between 1580 and 1585 – August 5, 1638) was a Walloon from Wesel, in present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, then part of the Duchy of Cleves. read more

The third director of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, Peter Minuit is best known for "purchasing" Manhattan from a Native-American tribe in 1626. Synopsis Born in Wesel circa 1580, Peter Minuit joined the Dutch West Indian Company in the 1620s. read more

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