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2001 by Jon Richards. Peter Minuit is said to have purchased the island of Manhattan in the year 1626 for about $24 worth of beads. If instead of buying Manhattan he had put the $24 into a bank account paying 6% compound interest per year and left the money there continuously, today he would have a bank account of approximately $65 billion, ignoring income taxes.
Without confirmation from a primary source, historians are left to infer who the island was purchased from, and canât seem to agree. A few accounts say that the Dutch got the wool pulled over their eyes, and bought the land from a group of natives that lived on Long Island and were only traveling through Manhattan.