Peter Minuit

Peter Minuit == Life and work == Minuit's Walloon family, originally from the city of Tournai, was one of many Protestant families that fled persecution from the Roman Catholic government of the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium), and found refuge in the Dutch Republic and Protestant parts of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Noun
1. Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 (1580-1638)
(synonym) Minuit, Minnewit, Peter Minnewit
(hypernym) settler, colonist