New Amsterdam - New York

In 1614 the Dutch set up a trading settlement on the southern tip of Manhattan Island and called it
New Amsterdam.

Peter Minuit

of the Dutch West Indies Company 

He bought Manhattan Island from a native American people, in 1626 and he paid them with cheap jewelry.

New Amsterdam became a British colony in 1664 and its name was changed in New York. 

after the English Duke of York and Albany.