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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 van der Donck was a lawyer and landowner in New Netherland who wrote a detailed description of the colony and its Indians. He was also a political activist who opposed the Director Willem Kieft and his war with the natives.
Adriaen van der Donck (Breda, ca. 1618 – Nieuw-Amsterdam, 1655) was een advocaat en landeigenaar in Nieuw-Nederland, naar wie de stad Yonkers in de staat New York is vernoemd (Van der Donck werd jonkheer of jonker genoemd vanwege zijn erfelijke landbezit in Nieuw-Nederland).
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.
1. Okt. 2008 · Adriaen van der Donck, a graduate of Leiden University in the 1640s, became the law enforcement officer for the Dutch patroonship of Rensselaerswijck, located along the upper Hudson River. His...
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.
As a reward for negotiating peace with American Indian tribes, the Dutch West India Company gifted van der Donck land north of what is now the island of Manhattan. There, he became known as the Gentleman, or Jonker in Dutch, from which the modern day Yonkers derives.
