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Peter Minuit.
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Peter Minuit
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's was sent to bring all of the Dutch together in one colony. He bought Manhattan Island from the Indians for 60 guilder's worth of goods.
The United States imports goods and services today worth millions of dollars. Some common goods that the United States imports is crude oil, natural gas, and petroleum products.
On 24 May 1626 Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island for 50 guilders worth of trade goods from the Native Americans for the Dutch West India Company.
they would skin large rodents and such for their fur
Lewis and Clark recorded that they eventually got 29 horses from the Shoshone, but that they were mainly very poor, young animals with sore backs and hardly worth the goods that had been traded for them.
Manhattan, which is only a part of New York City, and a very small part of New York State, was purchased by the Dutch from the Native Americans living nearby for trade goods worth 60 Guilders in 1626, which was estimated a hundred years ago to be the equivalent of $60, but is probably closer to the purchasing power of $1000 today.
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