who sold new york to the british?

Answer 1

The story is that Manhattan Island had been purchased by the Dutch in 1626 from a local Indian tribe for the value of 60 guilders.

Answer 2

In 1625 , eleven years after Fort Nassau was founded, a fort was put up on Manhattan Island and ships brought farmers from Holland who were to supply the food for its garrison. Five farms (bouwerijen) were established on the island to meet the needs of the colony. These farmers were in the service of the company. As soon as the moat surrounding the fort was completed, the fort-to-be was christened Amsterdam after the capital of The Netherlands, and the new town around it, Nieuw Amsterdam, which some time later would be renamed New York City.

A year later Governor Pieter Minuit concluded one of the best deals in history. He bought the whole island from the Indians for sixty guilders about twenty-five dollars worth of merchandise. The Indians had no reason to complain either. They sold a piece of land which was already settled by white men who had never asked their permission to do so. Land ownership probably had a different meaning to them anyway, hunters and fishers that they were. However, the directors of the company were trained merchants, legal-minded men, and before they made Manhattan the strategic center of their New Netherland they wanted things in writing, which they got, and cheaply too at a thousand acres to the dollar. If history would have been a little different, the West India Company now would have been one of the richest real estate holders in the world. But things went differently, the English conquered New Amsterdam and the West India Company went bankrupt.

Answer 3

It was never sold in the 1600's the British Conquered New York

Answer 4

The Dutch. I think I am correct when I say that the Dutch under Peter Stuyvesant originally founded a settlement called Neuw Amsterdam - this became New York.

Answer 5

The Dutch it was called New Amsterdam before the English took it over. Then of course the name was changed to New York.

Answer 6

The Dutch had it before the British,it was called New Amsterdam.It had a Governor named Peter Stuyvesant.

Answer 7

The Netherlands.

Answer 8

Rowantrees

Answer 9

it was not sold but traded by the dutch for a land in south america called guiena because they had discovered gold there

Answer 10

Richard Branson.