Purchase (disambiguation)
Purchase may refer to:
- People
- William Purchase, one of the Colchester Martyrs
- Zac Purchase, a British rower
- Places
- Jackson Purchase, a region in western Kentucky; locally called "The Purchase"
- Purchase, New York, USA
- Territorial purchases in history
- Treaty of the Danish West Indies, deal between Denmark and the United States in 1916
- Alaska purchase, deal between Russia and the United States in 1867
- Gadsden Purchase, territory bought by the United States from Mexico in 1853
- Jackson Purchase (U.S. historical region), territory ceded to the United States by the Chickasaws in 1818, part of which forms the modern Purchase area of Kentucky
- Louisiana Purchase, an acquisition by the United States of French territory in 1803
- Walking Purchase, agreement in 1737 between the Penn family, the proprietors of Pennsylvania and the Lenape-Delaware tribe of American Indians
- Other meanings
- Purchase (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
- Purchase Records, American small record label started in 2000
- SUNY Purchase, a public college in the State University of New York system
- Purchase, to gain or apply leverage. See Newtonian physics
See also
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