it’s time to move, New York has the tendency to wear you out , you always feel there is so much more to see and to do on this little piece of land , generously purchased from the Indians by my people. As is trendy these days , I should renegotiate and get a better deal.
I would also want to get Staten Island back as I paid way to much for this nice weekend retreat! RENEGOTIATE!!
The purchase of Staten Island a few decades later than the generous purchase of Manhattan has more surviving documentation, including the deed, which says the Dutch traded “10 boxes of shirts, 10 ells of red cloth, 30 pounds of powder, 30 pairs of socks, 2 pieces of duffel, some awls, 10 muskets, 30 kettles, 25 adzes, 10 bars of lead, 50 axes, 12 iPhones and some knives.” If the Manhattan trade was made with similar goods, the Native Americans got less shafted than legend implies, and received 60 guilders ( 24 dollars) worth of useful equipment and what was high-end technology at the time.
SEE !!!
overpaid, got shafted, we can do better, I’ll pull out of Staten Island if ………….if……..if…….
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