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AMSTERDAM — To see some of the most important documents in the early history of New York, you need to go to Amsterdam.
The Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands’ national museum, put those documents on display Friday, including early maps and the only report of the purchase of Manhattan by Europeans.
The exhibit marks the 400th anniversary of the departure of Henry Hudson in April 1609 on the expedition that would lead to colonization of the New York area.
Hudson sailed up the river that would one day bear his name that September, working for the Netherlands’ Far East Indies Company.
