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  Fort Wilhelmus   Fort Beversreede   Fort Nya Korsholm   De Rondout Settlements:   Noten Eylandt   New Amsterdam   Rensselaerswyck   New Haarlem   Noortwyck   Beverwijck   Wiltwyck   Bergen   Pavonia   Vriessendael   Achter Col   Vlissingen   Oude Dorpe   Colen Donck   Greenwich   Heemstede   Rustdorp   Gravesende   Breuckelen   New Amersfoort   Midwout   New Utrecht   Boswyck   Swaanendael   New Amstel   Nieuw Dorp The Patroon System Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions Directors of New Netherland: Cornelius Jacobsen May (1620-25) Willem Verhulst (1625-26) Peter Minuit (1626-32) Sebastiaen Jansen Krol (1632-33) Wouter van Twiller (1633-38) Willem Kieft (1638-47) Peter Stuyvesant (1647-64) People of New Netherland New Netherlander Twelve Men Eight Men Flushing Remonstrance Colen Donck was the title of a large Dutch-American owned estate of 24000 acres (97 km) (a patroonship) originally owned by Adriaen van der Donck in New Netherland along what was then known as the North River (Hudson River). According to Russell Shorto "Van der Donck's grant began on the mainland directly to the north of the island (Manhattan) continued along the river for twelve miles and carried eastward as far as the Bronx River ... he became lord of much of what is today the Bronx and southern Westchester County". Willem Kieft the Director-General of New Netherland granted Van der Donck the property in 1646. Adriaen van der Donck named his estate Colen Donck and built several mills along what is now called the Saw Mill River. The estate was so large that locals referred to him as the Jonkheer ("young gentleman" or "squire") a word from which the name "Yonkers" is derived. Records show Van der Donck to have been alive in August 1655 and dead by the following January and indicate that there was some sort of inquiry into the sacking of his home in the raids known as the Peach Tree War. References Shorto Russell. (2004). The Island at the Center of the World The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-50349-0.  This New York state location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v d e This article relating to the history of the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v d e