Show one of 41 nyee referring to a real estate transact alon made by one peter way back in abe year 1628 bill nye in his history of the united states declared new york was afterwards sold for the whole island when I 1 think of this I 1 go into my family gallery which I 1 also use as a swear room and tell those ancestors what I 1 think of them where were they when new york sold tor the humor of this strikes deeply ahen one stops to consider what has been abe outcome of this original in vestment peter with trinkets and few bottles of rum so delighted the native indians that they gladly turned over to him the whole of man hattan island now the heart of greater new york new york the giant city national magazine |