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- He chose 652 acres on the southwestern-most part of the mainland, on the banks of the Harlem River.
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It was in this year—1639—that Jonas Bronck, at the age of 39, left his home in Holland and settled on a 652 acre plot of land covering most of what is now Mott Haven and built a farmhouse roughly where you are standing now.
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Dec 3, 2014 · On December 3rd, 1639, Jonas Bronck purchased 50 acres of land to the north of Manhattan Island that later grew into 680 acres of farmland. People in the City would visit the farmland for a getaway from the hustle and bustle of 17th century City life, and heading on up to the farm would be know as "going to the Broncks".
Bronck's farm, a tract of 274 hectares (680 acres), known as the biblical Emmaus, Bronck's Land, and then just Broncksland, or simply Bronck's— covered roughly the area emanating from general vicinity of Willis Avenue and 132nd Street in the Bronx in what, today, is Mott Haven.
1 day ago · On December 3rd 1641, Jonas Bronck, a Danish immigrant to New York City, bought about 500 acres of land above Manhattan. According to the Bronx Historical Society, the first settlement is in ...
Sep 29, 2008 · The killing was in retaliation for the earlier murder of a Native American, but that carried no weight with the belligerent Kieft, who launched a search and destroy mission against a Weekguasegeeck village north of Bronck’s Land that only narrowly missed its target.
Jul 23, 2009 · His farm (known as Bronck’s Land, and then just Broncksland), covered roughly the area south of today’s 150 th Street in the Bronx. The original price paid for the Bronx, or a large share of it, was as follows: 2 gunns, 2 kettles, 2 coats, 2 shirts, 2 adzes, 1 barrel of cider, and 6 bitts of money.
Aug 19, 2014 · The Broncks built a stone house they named Emmaus (after a site where Jesus appeared after his resurrection) at what would become East 132nd Street and Lincoln Avenue, on a bluff overlooking what...
