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The Dutch settle in Mannahatta in 1624 bringing: central banking, multiculturalism and the stock market exchange to the trading port of Nieuw Amsterdam, but in 1664 it was handed to the British who brought slavery and freemasonry; and after the American Revolution (1775-1783) it became the capital of the new masonic republic — and with some imagination you can go back to the colonial times of the village of New York City.

Time period: 1624-1790s

Movie/book: The Revenant (2015)/The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History by Angela L. Daniel "Silver Star"

Soundtrack: Sea Shanties/Native American flutes

Fashion: dark colors, fur poncho plus a hat with a feather

Budget:

Jacques Cortelyou: Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt (Castello Plan); Amsterdam, 1665

Plan of the City of New York in the year 1767;

This tour will take you around the tip of the island of Mannahatta: where the Lenape used to live in sophisticated camps and where the first corporation of the world the Dutch East India Company opened a trading port in the 1600s. The area is characterized by: hidden brick houses, winding streets and historical monumental buildings. The Venetian CEOs of the first corporation of the world decided to expand their enterprises in the new continent; and stablished a trading port in what now is Governors Island but soon it was to small for the warehouses and docks so they “bought” Mannahatta (hilly island in the Lenape language) from the locals in 1625. At the beginning the intention was that the workers would come and go, but little by little they started settling down and that is when the Dutch “government” came over to create the former colony of the New Netherlands with Nieuw Amsterdam as its capital. The Bank of Amsterdam, the Stock Exchange and multiple religions (Judaism, Catholicism plus Lutherans and Quakers) migrated to the new town a voiding the religious conflicts in Europe. Liberal Dutch, English, German, French, Scandinavian, and African slaves worked in the lucrative fur trade with the Native Americans; giving New Amsterdam its melting pot identity where cultures mix and coexist in peace to make money. The main building of the city was Fort Amsterdam, the administrative headquarters and the center of trade, marrying the government with the corporation — the beginning of lobbying and insider trading. Today only the street layout and some names have survived: wall street comes from walstraat (where the city wall used to be), Broadway comes from breede wegh, and Bowery from bouwerij (farm in Dutch). The Dutch married the English, and New Amsterdam became New York in 1664 but pretty much the elite and the culture remained. The town quickly grew and became the second biggest city in the colonial time (underneath Philapdelphia, but above Boston) with a population around 18,000 to 25,000 if you count slaves. The free masons started orchestrating the creation of a new republic (similar to the Venetian one) with the intention to create the new “Atlantis”: a technological, naval, globalized, merchant society they heard through generations; so Benjamin Franklyn went to Versailles and convinced king Louis the XVI to pay for the war — and he did. In 1775 the American Revolutionary War started against the British with New York as the headquarters of the British Army. After the war the city became the capital of the new masonic republic in 1780 until 1790, when Washington got built as the new capital with a giant obelisk and Greek looking temples. The tour suggest visiting Trinity Church, the Native American Museum, plus a historical walking tour during the morning; lunch at the tavern, the Federal Hall and the church where George Washington went after signing the Declaration of Independence in the afternoon; and to end the day another walking tour around the Civic District plus dinner in Stone Street.