Jonas Bronck

Signing the Treaty with the Indians April 22, 1642, painted in 1908 by John Ward Dunsmore

Jonas Bronck (alternatively Jonas Jonsson Brunk, Jonas Jonasson Bronk, or Jonas Jonassen Bronck) (around 1600 – 1643) was a settler in the Dutch colony of New Netherland after whom the Bronx River, and by extension, the county and New York City borough of the Bronx are named.


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