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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;saltysam-1, post: 1288784, member: 23368&quot;]Just as an additional aside: There has never been a deed, title or bill of sale offered as proof of the purchase. Only a letter on file by the Dutch stating they gave $24 worth of trade goods (no mention of beads or trickets specifically) to the Lenage Indians who were on the lower part of the island at the time. The upper part was contolled and inhabitted by the Reckgawanc Indians who probably had more claim to the total island than anyone else. A third tribe, the Canarsie, also hunted on this land which the Lenage were believed doing when the Dutch arived. The indians never had any concept of legal owner ship. They probably thought they were given these gifts for passage through the territory which was common among tribes then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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