It included Manhattan, but was much larger than that. It went from Albany, New York, south to Delaware, including parts of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, and Delaware.
Peter Minuit he gave $24.00 to the Indians in Manhattan .
Formally New netherland, Manhattan was founded in1624 by dutch fur traders.
Peter Minuit, the 3rd Director General of New Netherland purchased Manhattan from the Lenape for 60 guilders in 1626.
New Netherland. The settlement at New York City (Manhattan Island) was called New Amsterdam.
No continent bought Manhattan. It was bought by New Netherland, a Dutch settlement.
The Dutch settlement on Manhattan island was called New Amsterdam. It was founded in 1624 and served as the capital of New Netherland. In 1664, the settlement was seized by the English and renamed New York.
Peter Minuit, the 3rd Director of New Netherland purchased Manhattan from the Lenape Indians for 60 guilders on May 24, 1626. There is a plaza named in his honor in front of the Staten Island ferry in lower Manhattan.
Jesse Livermore killed himself with a gun on November 28, 1940 in the Sherry Netherland Hotel in Manhattan, New York.
New Netherland ended in 1674.
The Dutch came with Peter Stuyvesant who purchased Manhattan from the Indians.
The center of fur trade in New Netherland was the town of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Generous land grants to patroons , or lords, and religious tolerance soon brought Jews, French Huguenots, Puritans, and others to the colony. (New Netherland is now New York and New Amsterdam is now New York City).
Thomas Netherland