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the ships with all their flags flying and I began to think the Burnside Expedition was not quite played
reached and forded the Rappahanock River a[t] a place called Keleys Ford and bivouaced, all pretty well played
It does not need calling in play the imagination to see that in such a record as this lies folded a perfect
For instance, in 1625, the Dutch governor, Peter Minnet, Peter Minnet (alternately Minuit) was appointed
events and persons departed from the stage, now in the midst of the turmoil and excitement of the great play
the same period, two other worthy men, immigrants also from Holland, named Frederick Lubertse and Peter
When Sarah's father, George Jansen De Rapelje, was settled on his farm in the Wallabout, Peter Minnet
It was Peter Minnet (alternately Minuit) who, on May 6, 1626, purchased Manhattan from the Lenape Indians