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Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck

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Lawyer and landowner in New Netherland (1618-1655)

NetherlandsPoliticiansLived 1620 to 1655 · aged 35
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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.

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Willem Kieft smoking a peace pipe peace with an Algonquian Chief after Kieft's War, 1645Willem Kieft smoking a peace pipe peace with an Algonquian Chief after Kieft's War, 16451685 interpretation of the Jansson-Visscher map of the American Northeast first published in 1656 by van der Donck1685 interpretation of the Jansson-Visscher map of the American Northeast first published in 1656 by van der DonckA section of the recently daylighted Saw Mill River in Van Der Donck Park in Getty Square neighborhood of YonkersA section of the recently daylighted Saw Mill River in Van Der Donck Park in Getty Square neighborhood of Yonkers

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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.

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Netherlands
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Politicians
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Politician
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deceased
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Lived 1620 to 1655 · aged 35
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