biography
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| lived:
| (?1580–1638)
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| biography:
| Colonist, born in Wesel, Rhenish Prussia (now Germany). He became the first director-general of New Amsterdam, and in 1626 purchased Manhattan I from Algonquin Indians for 60 guilders (24 dollars). Later, he led an expedition under the Swedish flag and created the short-lived ‘New Sweden’ in present-day Delaware. |
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