Purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians
Purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians, 1626: The First Big Real Estate Deal
In 1626, Peter Minuit, the first Dutch Governor - General of New Netherland, purchased all of Manhattan Island from the Indians for the equivalent of $24.00.
In 1639 Jonas Bronck, after whom the Borough of the Bronx was named, purchased land in that Borough from the Indians. In 1642, after many hostilities, a treaty with the Indians was signed in his house
Float - Purchase of Manhattan.
Massacre by the Indians of the white people in Pavonia.
Massacre by the Indians of the white people at Pavonia.
William Penn's Treaty with the Indians.
An Indian Village of the Manhattans
Arrival of the ship of Captain Christaensen.
Manhattan Island before the Dutch.
Landing of the "Pilgrim Fathers" at Plymouth, Mass. Dec. 11, 1620.
Wm. Penn's Treaty with the Indians when he founded the Province of Pennsya. 1661.
The Indian Family.
Float - Purchase of Manhattan
[Wall of pictures of Indians.]