the island of manhatan (then called new amsterdam)
Manhattan Island
Most Dutch settlers went to the northern Hudson Valley, near the present Albany NY. In 1624 The Dutch East India Company established New Amsterdam, the first permanent European settlement in what is now New York state. New Amsterdam is now known as New York City. The Dutch Governor Peter Minuit is said to have traded the Canarsee Indians 60 guilders worth of goods for Manhattan Island in 1626 .
He was the General of the Dutch colony of new Amsterdam a dutch colony in America, was sent by the dutch west India company Minuit was famous for buying the island (s) of Manhattan which is today's new york he bought it from native Americans in 1626.he payed with what as called trinkets which where about $24.he had also found new Amsterdam the southern tip on his island Manhattan in 1631he was released from the dutch India company he headed to the Swedish group (was dismissed from the dutch India company) in 1638. he also bought land from native Americans and founded fort Christina near what is today's Wilmington Delaware he later died in a hurricane in the west indies while on a trading mission in 1638.
MINUIT, PETERPeter Minuit (1580-1638) was the first director general of New Amsterdam, a Dutch colony in America. Minuit was sent to the area by the Dutch West India Company. Minuit is famous for buying the island of Manhattan (in what is now New York, USA) from Native Americans in 1626. He bought the island with trinkets valued at about $24. He founded New Amsterdam on the southern tip of Manhattan. In 1631, Minuit was dismissed from the Dutch West India Company, and in 1638 headed a Swedish group that founded New Sweden (the first European settlement on the Delaware River). Minuit bought land from the Native Americans and founded Fort Christina (near what is now Wilmington, Delaware, USA). Minuit died in a hurricane in the West Indies while on a trading mission in 1638.
He died in Spain 1626.
The island of Manhatten.
New York City.
The dutch purchased from American Indians in present day Manhatten Island.
Peter Minuit, the Dutch colonial governor of New Amsterdam bought Manhattan Island from the Indians for 60 guilders (approx, $24) in 1626.
Manhattan for 60 guilders ($24)
The Dutch bought Manhattan island because, the Dutch were scared that the American Indians might attack the settlers.cool that why
The Dutch paid Native Americans the equivalent of about $24 worth of goods in American money for Manhattan island in 1626.
They purchased it from the Lenape Indians of Canarsie (Brooklyn) in 1626 for 60 Dutch guilders or $24 worth of beaver pelt and trinkets.
Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island in 1626.
The Dutch purchased Manhattan in 1626 from the Native American Lenape tribe.
Manhattan. In 1626, Peter Minuit purchased what is now called Manhattan from the Indians, believed to have been Lenape Indians. In 1626 money, the purchase was equivalent to $24. However, historians point out that the price is misleading as the transaction was part of an economy of fur trade and not simply the purchase of land.
The Indians sold Manhattan in 1626.