Author:Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck

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Adriaen van der Donck
(1620–1655)

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lawyer and landowner in New Netherland after whom the city of Yonkers, New York is named. In addition to being the first lawyer in the Dutch colony, he was a leader in the political life of New Amsterdam, and an activist for Dutch-style republican government.

Works

Description of the New Netherlands (1655)

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