page_title: Jonas Bronck
section_title: Site of homestead
hierarchical_section_title: Jonas Bronck / Site of homestead
caption_attribution_description: "Manatvs gelegen op de Noot [sic] Riuier" - a Dutch map of Manhattan and environs from around 1670, believed to be a copy of a 1639 map often attributed to Johannes Vingboons (a.k.a. Joan Vinckeboons).&#91;1&#93;
context_page_description: Jonas Bronck was born around year 1600 and died in 1643. Bronck was an immigrant to 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. A mural at the Bronx County Courthouse depicting Bronck's arrival was created in the early 1930s by James Monroe Hewlett.
context_section_description: Bronck and Kuyter navigated up the East River to land that was within the territory of the Siwanoy and Wecquaesgeek groups of Wappinger who inhabited it at the time of colonialization. It is said that Bronck wrote of his new home: "The invisible hand of the Almighty Father, surely guided me to this beautiful country, a land covered with virgin forest and unlimited opportunities. It is a veritable paradise and needs but the industrious hand of man to make it the finest and most beautiful region in all the world." Kuyter chose land on the west bank on the island of Manhattan; Bronck settled on the mainland. Teuntie and Jonas Bronck's house was built by a promontory at the juncture of the Harlem River and the Bronx Kill across from Randalls Island and was constructed like "a miniature fort with stone walls and a tile roof". Bronck's farmstead consisted of approximately 274 hectares (680 acres), which being a religious man, he named Emaus. (Emmaus, according to the New Testament, is where Jesus appeared before two of his followers after his resurrection.) A reasonable approximation of the site (40°48′13″N 73°55′33″W). in Mott Haven is about 1,000 feet south of Bruckner Boulevard and 500 feet east of the Willis Avenue Bridge, on a tract now part of the Harlem River Intermodal Yard, though which runs the Oak Point Link.
caption: Map (c1639) Manhattan situated on the North Rivier with numbered key showing settlements with #43 representing the Bronck homestead; #42, across the Harlem River, represents that of Kuyter,[23] who had sailed with Bronck and took the land on the Manhattan side of the river
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