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Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck (* um 1618 in Breda; † September 1655) war ein Rechtsanwalt und Grundbesitzer in Nieuw Nederland, nach dessen Standesbezeichnung auf Niederländisch Jongheer die Stadt Yonkers in New York benannt wurde.
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 York, is named.
Learn about the life and achievements of Adriaen van der Donck, one of the earliest and most influential settlers in New Netherland. He was a lawyer, a diplomat, a landowner, and a member of the Council of Nine in New Amsterdam.
A book that provides the first complete and accurate English translation of a Dutch colonist's account of life and culture in seventeenth-century New Netherland. Learn about Van der Donck's observations of the natural and human environment, the beavers, and the native peoples.
- Adriaen van der Donck, Charles T. Gehring, William A. Starna, Diederik Willem Goedhuys, Russell Shor...
- 2008
Image 1.8.1 1.8. 1: Presumed Portrait of Adriaen van der Donck. Van der Donck’s interest in the New World led him to obtain a post as schout, a sheriff and prosecutor, from Kiliaen van Rensselaer, who owned territory near what is now Albany. He later worked for the Dutch West India Company.
1641 tot 1655. Dertien klaagbrieven over het bestuur van Nieuw Nederland liggen in het Nationaal Archief. De belangrijkste figuur achter deze geschriften is Adriaen van der Donck. Een jonge jurist die in 1641 naar Nieuw Nederland vertrok om daar een nieuw leven te beginnen.
Learn about the life and works of Adriaen Van der Donck, a lawyer who became a pioneer and a critic of the Dutch colony in America. Find out how he described the land, the people, and the conflicts of New Netherland in his writings.
