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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.

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