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Born in Wesel circa 1580, Peter Minuit joined the Dutch West Indian Company in the 1620s. Named director of the New Netherland colony in 1626, he is said to have negotiated a deal for the island of Manhattan with a Native American tribe and helped develop a profitable fur trade in the region.
control<span> the American Indian trade in the Ohio </span>River<span> Valley and keep the Pennsylvania traders out. </span>
