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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 ...
Nov 1, 2021 · In 1639, a Swedish sea captain named Jonas Bronck sailed from the Netherlands with his wife, some domestic servants, and a number of other emigrants to New Amsterdam—still 25 years away from ...
Aug 19, 2014 · Aug. 25, 2014. Because of an editing error, an article on Wednesday about Jonas Bronck and the connection between Savsjo, his hometown in Sweden, and what is now the Bronx — where he arrived 375 ...
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 ...
1 day ago · Image via Library of Congress. 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 ...
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 ...
Oct 20, 2015 · Photo courtesy Janet Norquist-Gonzalez. Jonas Bronck was born in 1600 in the southern Swedish hamlet of Komstad, the town most historians now accept as Bronck’s birthplace. Located just outside of Sävsjö municipality in Småland, Sävsjö is like the U.S.A.’s Minnesota. It is a sparsely populated area graced with fertile, yet stony ...
