New Amsterdam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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New Amsterdam (Dutch: ) was a 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement that later became the city now known as New York City. The town outside of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in the New Netherlan...
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Manhattan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River. New York County , which has the same boundaries as the Borough of M...
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High and Mighty Lords: ... Yesterday arrived here the ship the Arms of Amsterdam, which sailed from New Netherland, out of the river Mauritius, on the 23rd September. They report that our people are in good heart and live in peace there; the women also have borne some children there. ... The cargo of the aforesaid ship is:
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avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/charter_015.asp
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May 6, 1626: The Purchase of Manhattan takes place. ... ``There were loads of mosquitoes and it was very rocky.'' Jim Rementer, a Lenape descendant and head of the Lenape Language Project in Bartlesville, Okla., said the Indians who ``sold'' Manhattan to the Dutch did not share European notions of land ownership.;
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nativenewsonline.org/history/hist0506.html
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All the histories and all the textbooks since the mid 1840s have discussed the acquisition of Manhattan Island, the heart of New York City, by the Dutch from the Canarsee Delawares. And all of them for ... That is all that is historically known about the purchase of Manhattan. The deed is lost, and there is no copy of it.
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www.thebeadsite.com/FRO-MANH.html
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Some pictures from over the years showing the event that never happened, buying Manhattan Island with beads. ... The Romance of the Purchase of Manhattan ... Wasn't it nice of the "Indians" to provide the Dutch with a little table and a three-legged stool?
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www.thebeadsite.com/FRO-MANG.html
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Many people believe that Manhattan was bought for glass beads worth about $24. The story is disputed, but not improbable. Fact is that the Dutch did purchase Manhattan in 1626 for trade goods worth (at the time) about 24 gold dollars.
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www.helmink.com/Antique_Map_WIC_Beads/
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The highlight of the exhibition is the now-famous letter, dated November 5, 1626, from one Pieter Schaghen, listing, among other items, the purchase of Manhattan for 60 guilders (falsely converted to $24 in the 19th century). the charter of the Dutch West India Company, letters concerning a safe conduct for Peter...
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www.henryhudson400.com/hh400_project.php?id=22
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The Royal Netherlands Embassy in the United States of America. ... Minister Verhagen presented Secretary Clinton with replicas of the Schagen Letter, which documents the Dutch purchase of Manhattan and the oldest map of the New York region, created by Joan Vingboon in the 17th century.
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www.netherlands-embassy.org/article.asp?articleref=AR00...
www.netherlands-embassy.org/article.asp?articleref=AR00002897EN
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