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JONAS BRONCK AND HIS BOUWERY IN NEW 
AMSTERDAM. 
With his friend Johann Petersen Kuyter, a man of means and 
education, and a native of Ditmarsen, that portion of the little 
Duchy of Holstein lying between the mouth of the Elbe and 
Eider Rivers, Jonas Bronck came to America about 1639; at 
least that is the time when his name first appears in the records. 
On his arrival in New Amsterdam he purchased of the Indians 
some five hundred acres of land, situated upon the mainland be- 
yond the Harlem River, where he established the bouwery that 
bore his name, and which after his death was known as ‘‘ Bronck’s 
Land.’ Later it received the appellation it still bears as that 
important division of New York City knownas the Borough of 
the Bronx. It was the pioneer settlement of the colony beyond 
the Harlem in Westchester County and was called by its owner 
““Emaus.”” It covered what is now known as Morrisania. 
