Peter Minuit

Peter Minuit
Ketua Pengarah New Netherland ke-3
Dalam jawatan 1626–1632
Didahului oleh	Willem Verhulst
Digantikan oleh	Sebastiaen Jansen Krol

Peter Minuit, Pierre Minuit atau Peter Minnewit (1589 – 5 Ogos, 1638) merupakan seorang Walloon daripada Wesel, kini terletak di North Rhine-Westphalia, Jerman, kemudian merupakan sebahagian daripada Duchy of Cleves. Beliau merupakan Ketua Pengarah bagi sebuah koloni Belanda iaitu Belanda Baru bermula pada tahun 1626 sehingga 1633 dan pengasas koloni Sweden iaitu Sweden Baru pada tahun 1638. Berdasarkan tradisi, beliau telah membeli pulau Manhattan daripada penduduk asli Amerika pada 24 Mei, 1626.

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Rujukan

• Tobias Arand, Peter Minuit aus Wesel - Ein rheinischer Überseekaufmann im 17. Jahrhundert; in: Schöne Neue Welt. Rheinländer erobern Amerika, hg. v. Rheinischen Freilichtmuseum und Landesmuseum für Volkskunde in Kommern, Opladen 1981, 13-42
• Weslager, C. A. (1989). A Man and his Ship: Peter Minuit and the Kalmar Nyckel. Wilmington: Kalmar Nickel Foundation. ISBN 0-9625563-1-9.
• Russell Shorto (2004). The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America. Random House. ISBN 1400078679. Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (bantuan)
• Jaap Jacobs (2005), New Netherland: A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, ISBN90 04 12906 5.

Sumber-sumber lain

• Mickley, Joseph J. Some account of William Usselinx and Peter Minuit: Two individuals who were instrumental in establishing the first permanent colony in Delaware (The Historical Society of Delaware. 1881)

Pautan luar

• Project Gutenberg's Narrative New Netherland, edited by J. Franklin Jameson, includes a footnote about the life of Minuit, but gives an improbable birth date of 1550.
• The Canarsees
• Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace: Gotham, 1999.
• Kenneth T. Jackson, ed.: Encyclopedia of New York City. 1995.
• The Kalmar Nyckel Foundation & Tall Ship Kalmar Nyckel.
• Peter Schaghen's letter on the purchase of Manhattan Island for the value of 60 guilders Diarkibkan 2010-10-23 di Wayback Machine
• CollectValue exhibition of Novum Belgium share certificates in honour of Peter Minuit, claiming back Manhattan Diarkibkan 2015-06-01 di Wayback Machine