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    Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck (c.1618 – 1655) was a lawyer and landowner in New Netherland after whose honorific Jonkheer the city of Yonkers, New...
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    the early 17th century. Adriaen van der Donck, a Dutch settler, bought the land from the company in 1646. Van der Donck also paid the Indian chief Tacharew...
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    Van der Donck died in 1655. Following the takeover of New Netherland by the British in 1664, the claim to the estate was awarded to van der Donck's brother-in-law...
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    3293–3298. Bibcode:1972PChem..11.3293E. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)86392-X. van der Donck, I.; Mulliez, E.; Blanckaert, J. (2004). "Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia...
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    3293–3298. Bibcode:1972PChem..11.3293E. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)86392-X. van der Donck, I.; Mulliez, E.; Blanckaert, J. (2004). "Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia...
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    "Yonkers" is generally thought to be derived from a variant of Van der Donck's honorific, Donck-Heer (or Jonkheer). Soon after the surrender of the New Amsterdam...
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    document was written by Leiden-educated New Netherland lawyer Adriaen van der Donck, condemning the GWC for mismanagement and demanding full rights as citizens...
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  • Eyckenboom (The Oak Tree) with a new party of colonists, including his wife and children. Also on board was Adriaen van der Donck who would one day be...
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  • North America by European settlers at least as early as 1655. Adriaen van der Donck, a Dutch immigrant to New Netherland, mentions asparagus in his description...
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    Peter Stuyvesant is one of the leaders of the Dutch colonies. Adriaen van der Donck is the other possible Dutch leader. In Sid Meier's Colonization computer...
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    founding of the town of Port Jervis on the Delaware River by the Cortright, Van Auken, Westbrook, Decker, Kuykendal, Westfall, Titsworth, Cole, and Davis...
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  • mill of Van Cortlandt family. Used over 200 years, burned in 1901. One of the millstones is west of the mansion. 24 Van Der Donck East Of Van Cortlandt...
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    pastor) of Beverwyck. Another early description was in 1656 by Adriaen van der Donck in his Description of New Netherland. In the early-to-mid 17th century...
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    Championship: 2018 and 2022 (record shared with Greg LeMond and Mathieu van der Poel) Most Clásica de San Sebastián wins: 3 (record shared with Marino...
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  • Yonkers, from homestead of Jonkheer or Jonker (meaning esquire) Adriaen van der Donck. Konynen Eylant meaning Rabbit Island. Mohegan quinnitukqut, meaning...
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    century. The area was granted to Adriaen van der Donck, the patroon of Colendonck, in July 1645. Van der Donck was known locally as Jonkheer ('young gentleman')...
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    Retrieved 2013-01-06. Van der Sijs, Nicoline (August 2012), "'De laatste spreker van Low Dutch' L.G. van Loon vervalste de geschiedenis van het Nederlands in...
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  • The Making Of Dutch Colonial Manhattan". Sawkill Lumber Co. Adriaen van der Donck (1620-1655). "Description of the New Netherlands". Retrieved February...
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    Presley, born and raised in Breda as Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk. Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck (c. 1618–1655), first lawyer in the Dutch colony of New...
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    triangle between Nepperhan and Palisade avenues and School Street. At Van der Donck Park in downtown Yonkers, it resurfaces as it flows past the post office...
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    Teunissen property in 1677.: 356  Adrian Avenue is named after Adriaen van der Donck, an early lawyer in New Amsterdam. With permission, he bought a strip...
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    called it the Sleepy haven kill.: 316  Dutch colonist Adriaen van der Donck's Beschrijvinge van Nieu Nederlandt, published in Amsterdam in 1655, referred...
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    logs raised upright. In 1653, Dutch official and landowner Adriaen van der Donck described a Mohawk longhouse in his Description of New Netherland: Their...
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    located today. This was noted on a 1656 New Netherland map by Adriaen van der Donck, a Dutch surveyor and map maker. Attempting to buy land from the Native...
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  • The Virgin and Child Enthroned (Art UK) Gerard Donck (1600–1650) (Art UK): A Family Group (Jan van Hensbeeck and his Wife, Maria Koeck, and a Child ...
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    Adrian Van der Donck grant. Early settlers in the Irvington area were Stephen Ecker, Jan Harmes, Captain John Buckhout, and Barent Dutcher. The Van der Donck...
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    1927. Stewart said the only thing that had changed since then were the trees growing bigger. As requested, those near the track were cut and replaced...
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