{"id":233314,"date":"2025-05-09T19:32:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/walking-the-streets-of-new-amsterdam-nyc-department-of-records-information-services\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T19:32:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:32:01","slug":"walking-the-streets-of-new-amsterdam-nyc-department-of-records-information-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=233314","title":{"rendered":"Walking the Streets of New Amsterdam \u2014 NYC Department of Records &#038; Information Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">At first, Fort Amsterdam was crude, with earthen walls, but eventually it contained a church, a garrison, a house for the director, a prison, and a warehouse. It was used to house the entire population during Kieft\u2019s War in 1643, when the Lenape counter-attacked the Dutch after a massacre by colonists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In 1626, the so called \u201cpurchase\u201d of Manhattan occurred. No such deed exists, but Peter Schagen wrote a letter to the States General saying it was purchased by Peter Minuit on November 5, 1626 for goods and sewant (wampum) worth 60 guilders. Converted in the 19th century to dollars, a historian arrived at the figure of $24. However, the Lenape did not have the same ideas of property ownership as Europeans and most likely saw the agreement as a treaty for mutual use of the area, setting up decades of conflict.\u00a0By 1655 smallpox and other diseases, along with war, had decimated the native populations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In 1628, the Dutch started construction on the first windmill on the island near State Street and Battery Place. 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