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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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    Jonas Bronck. In 1639, the Dutch West India Company purchased the land of today's Mott Haven from the Wecquaesgeek (groups of Lenape tribe). Bronck built...
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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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  • Bjerre, lead singer and guitarist of Danish band Mew Jonas Björkman, Swedish tennis player Jonas Bronck, American colonist after whom the Bronx River, and...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    otherwise indicated: Academy for Personal Leadership and Excellence Jonas Bronck Academy The Rose Hill campus of Fordham University, which is the university's...
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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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    Broncksland. As the name suggests, Broncksland was the original settlement of Jonas Bronck and his wife, for whom the borough is named. In the fall of 1672, both...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • the area and soldier in the United States Army Bronx County New York Jonas Bronck, an early settler in the region Brooke County West Virginia Robert Brooke...
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    is the seat of the much larger Sävsjö Municipality.[citation needed] Jonas Bronck, namesake of the borough The Bronx, New York City, was born outside of...
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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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  • 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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    Recuerdo. Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Op. 105 (1940) The Legend of Jonas Bronck. Lyrics by Arthur Guiterman, Op. 106/1 (1940) New York. Poem by Arthur...
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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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  • behalf of the American Historical Association: 164–166. JSTOR 1836219. … Jonas Bronck was a Dane … Andersson, Brian G. (1998). "The Bronx, a Swedish Connection"...
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  • Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht, now spelled Breukelen. Named after Jonas Bronck, the first recorded European settler to the peninsula. It was called...
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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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