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Jul 1, 2024 · Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck (ca. 1618 – ca. 1655) was a lawyer and landowner in New Netherland after whose honorific Jonkheer the city of Yonkers, New York is named. In addition to being the first lawyer in the Dutch colony, he was a leader in the political life of New Amsterdam (modern New York City), and an activist for Dutch-style ...
Jun 25, 2024 · Adriaen van der Donck: A Dutch Rebel in Seventeenth-Century America. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018. xvi + 203 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6922-5. Reviewed by Christine Kooi (LSU)
3 days ago · In 1646, Adriaen Van der Donck, the first lawyer in the New World, was given a land grant for part of Yonkers including the Saeck-kill, which would later become the Saw Mill River. On the ...
Jun 26, 2024 · Sleepy Hollow got its name from the Dutch colonist, Adriaen Van der Donck, who referred to the Pocantico River as Slapershaven or Sleepers’ Haven in 1655. The name Sleepy Hollow is an Anglicized version of this and was later applied to the valley of the Pocantico River.
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6 days ago · In 1665 the early Dutch settler Adriaen van der Donck, for whom Yonkers is named, wrote, “The beaver is the main foundation and means why or through which this beautiful land was first occupied...
Jun 24, 2024 · Adriaen van der Donck—known as De Jonkheer, a courtesy title roughly equivalent to “young lord” or “gentleman” (whence, phonetically, Yonkers)—was given a land grant in 1646 and established the patroonship (estate) of Colendonck in 1652.
Jun 24, 2024 · Bekend was ook de "Beschrijvinge van Nieuw-Nederlant" van Adriaen van der Donck, dat in 1655 verschenen, reeds in 1656 een tweede druk beleefde. Ook is het mogelijk, dat de opwekking tot emigratie van Cornelis van Tienhoven, naar Drente gekomen is.
