honorable than that of William
Penn with the Indians from be-
yond the Delaware.

The price paid for the full title
to the twenty-two thousand acres,
comprising Manhattan Island,
was sixty guilders, about twenty-
four dollars, in merchandise, con-
sisting of clothing and trinkets.

The territory acquired, with
the surrounding region already
claimed by the Dutch, was now
created a province and county of
Holland, and granted Armorial.
distinction, that of an Earl or
Count—a beaver enclosed in a
shield and surmounted by an
Earl’s coronet. The provisional
civil government was organized
in 1626, and from this time dates