Manhattan Island
New York was purchased from a Native American tribe by Peter Minuit for beads and baubles worth approximately 60 Dutch Gilders, or $24. It should be noted, Native Americans had no concept of private property. Aside from establishing the New Netherlands colony, Minuit also founded New Sweden.
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Peter Minuet
The Dutch bought Manhattan island because, the Dutch were scared that the American Indians might attack the settlers.cool that why
Manhattan Island was purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans for goods equivalent to $24 in 1626.
Peter Minuit, the Dutch colonial governor of New Amsterdam bought Manhattan Island from the Indians for 60 guilders (approx, $24) in 1626.
The first recorded owner of Manhattan was the Dutch West India Company, which claimed the island in 1626. The company purchased it from the Lenape Native Americans, traditionally said to be for goods valued at 60 guilders, often romanticized as the equivalent of $24. This transaction marked the beginning of European settlement on the island. The Dutch later established New Amsterdam as the capital of their colony.
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.
Manhattan Island was purchased from the Indians for $24 dollars.
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New York was purchased from a Native American tribe by Peter Minuit for beads and baubles worth approximately 60 Dutch Gilders, or $24. It should be noted, Native Americans had no concept of private property. Aside from establishing the New Netherlands colony, Minuit also founded New Sweden.
Manhattan for 60 guilders ($24)
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Peter Minuet
they would skin large rodents and such for their fur