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Dutch colonizers learn that Lenape communities were 10 times larger just one generation before.

Date: 1650

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Colonizers settling in New Amsterdam (known today as New York) learn about the massive population loss from remaining members of the Lenape communities. This devastation was primarily due to diseases that arrived with colonization.