# Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck

> Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck was a lawyer and landowner in New Netherland after whose honorific Jonkheer the city of Yonkers, New York, is named. Although he was not, as sometimes claimed, the first lawyer in the Dutch colony, Van der Donck was a leader in the political life of New Amsterdam, and an activist for Dutch-style republican government in the Dutch West India Company-run trading post.

*Lawyer and landowner in New Netherland (1618–1655)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** Netherlands
- **Born:** 1620-05-07
- **Died:** 1655
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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