New York’s “birth certificate”, a letter dated Nov. 5, 1626 that related recent events in New Amsterdam to the Dutch Parliament, is headed to NYC for visit:

In between reports that some children were born and that summer grains were sown and reaped, the letter discloses that the settlers “have purchased the Island Manhattes from the Indians for the value of 60 guilders.”

This reminds me of The Mannahatta Project, which has an amazing interactive map that shows what Manhattan might have looked like in 1609.