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Teuntje and Jonas Bronck's house was built by a promontory at the juncture of the Harlem River and the Bronx Kill across from Randalls Island and was constructed like "a miniature fort with stone walls and a tile roof". Bronck's farmstead consisted of approximately 274 hectares (680 acres), which being a religious man, he named Emaus.
Mar 18, 2008 · Despite Bronck’s tenacity in forging onto the unknown Lenape Indian territory of Rananchqua in the Dutch colony New Netherlands, his actual role in New York history is quite brief. An ardent intellectual who gave his ship the lofty name Brand van Trogen (The Fire of Troy), Bronck, his wife Teuntje and a boatload of eager voyagers traveled to ...
Dec 3, 2013 · 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...
Dec 30, 2008 · December 30, 2008. People often wonder why the Bronx, alone of all New York’s boroughs, has “the” as part of its name. It’s because the borough is named after the Bronx River and the river was named for a man born in far-off Sweden. In 1639 Jonas Bronck arrived in the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam and purchased from the local Native ...
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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… Viewing NYC
Jonas Jonasson Bronck (1600-1643) was a United Provinces settler who purchased a tract of land that is now known as "the Bronx" borough of New York City. Jonas Jonasson Bronck was born in Torshavn, Faroe Islands, Denmark to a family of Protestant Danes; his Mennonite family fled the Netherlands for Denmark due to religious persecution. During the late 1630s, he was one of the first Dutch ...
Feb 24, 2014 · The road to how the Bronx got its name snakes all the way back to the 1600s, and a man named Jonas Bronck. "Jonas Bronck was a Swedish merchant. He sailed for the Dutch. He came from small village ...
