Essentials of United States history . was ever found. 58 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY the 45th parallel to the mouth of the Delaware, extend- United ^S ^° ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ Csipe Cod. This wholeNetherland region was within the territorj- granted by Eng-Company. jg^j^j iq ^]^g London and Plymouth companies. Ofcourse the Enghsh made complaints, but they were disre-garded. Dutch colonists were sent over in 1623, and threeyears later, Peter Muiuit, the governor of the colony, boughtthe island of Manhattan from the Indians for sixty guilders. The settlement becameknown as New Amsterdam,the
Essentials of United States history . was ever found. 58 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY the 45th parallel to the mouth of the Delaware, extend- United ^S ^° ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ Csipe Cod. This wholeNetherland region was within the territorj- granted by Eng-Company. jg^j^j iq ^]^g London and Plymouth companies. Ofcourse the Enghsh made complaints, but they were disre-garded. Dutch colonists were sent over in 1623, and threeyears later, Peter Muiuit, the governor of the colony, boughtthe island of Manhattan from the Indians for sixty guilders. The settlement becameknown as New Amsterdam,the fort farther up the riveras Fort Nassau, and thecolony as New Peter Stuyvesant. —New Netherland grewslowly. It was simply atrading colony. Religiousliberty was granted, butthe people had no voice inthe government. WhenPeter Stuyvesant, theirmost famous governor, ar-rived in 1647, he declared, Peteh Stuyvesant. .j ^^j^^jj ^^^,^^.^ ^^^^ ^^ ^ father his children, for the advantage of the chartered WestIndia Company. ^. > The present value of a guilder in American money is about forty would mean that Manhattan was bought for twenty-four as the purchasing value in Minuits day was about five times what itnow is, it is often said that he paid one hundred and twenty dollars forthe whole of Manhattan. 2 The West India Company was chartered Ijy the Dutch government in1621. It had control of all Dutch navigation and trade on the coast ofAmerica as well as of Africa. THE MIDDLE COLONIES 59 The company could not have found a better man to guardits interests than Stuyvesant, who was absolutely trust-worthy and honest. On the other hand, he was obstinate andhot-tempered and was continually quarreling with Discontentthe colonists, who desired more rights and greater of thefreedom. The company upheld the governor in Colonists,his opposition to the demands of the people and once wrotehim that he must not let them indulge in their visionarydreams. The c
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