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- No one had settled there before on 652 acres of the north bank 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.
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.
6 days ago · On December 3rd,1641, Jonas Bronck purchased 500 acres of farmland above Manhattan which later became The Bronx. The settlement is in present day "Mott Haven."
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.
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.
Feb 24, 2014 · Herndandez says Bronck established a farm in the area now known as Mott Haven. But, he was only there for four years before he died. After that a big family called the Morris' moved into the...
Bronck became the first recorded European settler in the present-day Bronx and built a farm named "Emmaus" close to what today is the corner of Willis Avenue and 132nd Street in Mott Haven. [26] .
