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Peter Minuit founded the state of New York in 1626 when he purchased the island of Manhattan from the Lenape Native Americans. This transaction is famously known as the purchase of Manhattan, and Minuit was serving as the director of the Dutch West India Company at the time. The settlement established by the Dutch was initially called New Amsterdam, which later became New York when the English took control in 1664.

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