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Title: The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC North Side Board of Trade (Bronx, New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher: New York : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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ows Neck : w hile our land titles begin with Do O deeds from members of that tribe, preceding or supplementingDutch ground briefs and patents and grants, borough andmanorial charters granted by the English. EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT. Hendrix Hudson anchored off Spuyten Duyvil in his cruiseup the Hudson in 1609 and Adriaen Blok, in the first vesselbuilt by Europeans in America, saw from the deck of the On-rest or Restless the shores of North New York after passingthrough Die Helle Gatt on his voyage of discovery up LongIsland Sound in 1613; but to Jonas Bronck or Bronx belongsthe honor of being the first actual settler, in 1639-40, on Har-lem Kills. After him the river Bronx and all the southerly partof our region was called Bronxland. Adriaen Vanderdonck,the first lawyer w7ho came to this part of America, a patriotand author, entitled to the credit of having obtained the con-cession of popular rights to the early inhabitants of NewNetherland, followed Bronck, in 1653, by settling near where
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3 1 The Great North Side. the V;in Cortlandt mansion in the park of tliai name nowstands, His purchase from the Indians may bays been earlier.That portion of our region, and as Ear north as well up thevalley of the Nepperhan, was therefore originally called VanDonks or Vanderdonks Land. Between Vanderdonk andBronx came in the Archer Patent, or Manor of Fordham,purchased principally from the Indian- by one dan Arcer, orJohn Archer, between L655 and L6.71. Daniel Turneur, anAlderman of Harlem, owned the neck o4 land between Crom-wells Creek and Harlem River, now known as Bighbridge-ville in 1671, also an Indian purchase; while Jessop andRichardson acquired title to part of Weal Farm-. BarrettoaPoint, and Leggetfs Neck as earl) as L663, known subse-quently as the \\ est Farms patent. Crossing the Bronx werind that about 1663-65, on the Westchester Creek, wherethe ancient village of Westchester now stands, was a settle-ment of trespassing New Englanders, whom the Dutch gover-nor tried to

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