Petrus Minuit (Pieter Minuit, Pierre Minuit, Peter Minnewit, 15805 Augusti 1638) natus est in urbe Wesel, in hodierna Rhenania Septentrionali–Vestfalia Germaniae, tum parte Ducatus Clivis. Munus Directoris Novae Nederlandiae, coloniae Nederlandicae, ab anno 1626 ad annum 1633 sustinuit, ac Novam Sueciam, coloniam Suecicam, anno 1638 condidit. Secundum memoriam translaticiam, insulam Manhatam de Indis Americanis die 24 Maii 1626 bonis sexaginta guilder Nederlandicis valentibus emit, quae saeculo undevicensimo par $24, vel anno 2006 par $1,000 aestimata sunt.

Petrus Minuit. Effigies saeculi septimo decimo.
Manhata empta. Adumbratio opinabilis, 1909.

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Bibliographia recensere

  • Arand, Tobias. 1981. Peter Minuit aus Wesel: Ein rheinischer Überseekaufmann im 17. Jahrhundert. In Schöne Neue Welt: Rheinländer erobern Amerika, ed. Rheinischen Freilichtmuseum und Landesmuseum für Volkskunde in Kommern, 13–42. Opladen.
  • Burrows, Edwin G., et Mike Wallace. 1999. Gotham: A History of New City to 1898. Novi Eboraci: Oxford University Press. UISBN 0195116348.
  • Jackson, Kenneth T. ed. 2010. The Encyclopedia of New York City. Ed. 2a. Portu Novo: Yale University Press. ISSBN 9780300114652.
  • Jacobs, Jaap. 2005. New Netherland: A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America. Lugduni: Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9004129065.
  • Mickley, Joseph J. 1881. Some Account of Willem Usselinx and Peter Minuit: Two Individuals Who Were Instrumental in Establishing the First Permanent Colony in Delaware. The Historical Society of Delaware.
  • Shorto, Russell. 2004. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America. Novi Eboraci: Random House. ISBN 1400078679.
  • Weslager, C. A. 1989. A Man and his Ship: Peter Minuit and the Kalmar Nyckel. Vilmingtoniae: Kalmar Nickel Foundation. ISBN 0962556319.

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