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Signing the Treaty with the Indians April 22, 1642, painted in 1908 by John Ward Dunsmore

Jonas Bronck (alternatively Jonas Jonsson Brunk, Jonas Jonasson Bronk, or Jonas Jonassen Bronck) (around 1600 – 1643) was an immigrant to the Dutch colony of New Netherland after whom the Bronx River, and by extension, the county and New York City borough of the Bronx are named.

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Jonas Bronck

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Jonas Bronck (alternatively Jonas Jonsson Brunk, Jonas Jonasson Bronk, or Jonas Jonassen Bronck) (around 1600 – 1643) was an immigrant to the Dutch colony...

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The Bronx

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Press. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-8131-1578-8. Jónas Bronck (or Brunck) was the son of Morten Jespersen Bronck ... Jónas seems to have gone to school in Roskilde...

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Bronk

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Bronck may refer to: Jonas Bronck (1600–1643), Swedish immigrant who gave his name to The Bronx Pieter Bronck, son or brother of Jonas Bronck Bronck House...

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bishop and scholar (d. 1661) Martine Bertereau, French mineralogist Jonas Bronck, Swedish colonist in America (d. 1643) Dud Dudley, first Englishman to...

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Bronck House

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The Bronck House, also known as the Pieter Bronck House, is a historic house museum west of Coxsackie in Greene County, New York. With a construction...

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Bronx County Courthouse

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proprietor of Jonas Bronck's Beer Co and a reported descendant of Laurens Duyts, a Danish farmer who traveled to New Amsterdam with Bronck on his ship Fire...

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Komstad

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historical records as early as 1370. Recent research tries to document that Jonas Bronck (c. 1600 – c. 1643), who gave name to The Bronx, New York, United States...

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Bronx River

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area of 38.4 square miles (99 km2). It is named after colonial settler Jonas Bronck. It originally rose in what is now the Kensico Reservoir, in Westchester...

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Patroon

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War. Colen Donck (Bronx and Yonkers) – Adriaen van der Donck Bronx – Jonas Bronck Vriessendael – David Pietersen de Vries; de Vries also had the 1st patent...

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List of counties in New York

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Bronx County 005 none (sui generis) January 1, 1914 New York County Jonas Bronck (1600?–1643), an early settler of the Dutch colony of New Netherland...

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North Bronx

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Duyvil Creek. Thirty years later in 1639, the mainland was settled by Jonas Bronck, a Swedish sea captain from the Netherlands who eventually built a farmstead...

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Detlev Bronk

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1962. Bronk was a descendant of Pieter Bronck, an early settler to New Netherland for whose relative Jonas Bronck the New York City borough The Bronx is...

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Swedish Americans

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region. The place name for the Bronx has its origins in the early settler Jonas Bronck, who was part of the New Netherland colony in 1639 and likely of Swedish...

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List of places in the United States named after people

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Bronson (prominent resident of Fort Scott) the Bronx, New York City – Jonas Bronck (settler) Brooks, Maine – John Brooks (Federalist candidate for Governor...

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List of public elementary schools in New York City

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Altman Lower East Side, Manhattan Benjamin Altman PS 43 Jonas Bronck Mott Haven Jonas Bronck PS 49 Willis Ave South Bronx PS 51 Elias Howe Hell's Kitchen...

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Manatus Map

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oriented from the river to the high ground 43. Beginnings of bouwerie of Jonas Bronck 44. Plantation of Pieter Schorstinveger 45. Plantation of Hendrick Hendricksen...

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Timeline of New York City

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Africans. 1639 – Jonas Bronck, a Swedish settler bought 500 acres of land from the Lenape tribe, creating a settlement called "Bronck's Land", soon after...

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Jochem Pietersen Kuyter

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India Company and the Dutch East India Company. In a joint venture with Jonas Bronck, Kuyter mounted an expedition to settle in New Netherland aboard a ship...

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Nordic Americans in New York City

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into New York Harbor in 1609. Among the Danish settlers in New York was Jonas Bronck, who in 1629 bought a large tract of land north of Manhattan. The Bronk...

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Bronxville Union Free School District

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in Westchester County, New York. It was named after Swedish immigrant Jonas Bronck. The latitude is 40.938N; longitude is -73.832W. It is in the Eastern...

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Arent van Curler

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reimbursement from the French. Also in 1643, Van Curler married the widow of Jonas Bronck, Teuntie Joriaens, also known as Antonia Slaaghboom, and the couple settled...

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Willy Pogany

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City at the El Museo del Barrio theater (1230 Fifth Avenue), P.S. 43 Jonas Bronck in Mott Haven, and the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (45th Street) and in...

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