 | Bronck's Descendants | Geoffrey T. Hellman, Harold Ross, and Max Elser | The New Yorker, May 6, 1939 P. 13 In 1639, Jonas Bronck came here from Amsterdam and bought 500 acres of land from the Indians, the land was called Bronck's Land; Bronxland, and finally the Bronx. The purchase price was two guns, two kettles, two adzes, two shirts a barrel of cider, and six-coins. His house stood where the N.Y. Central 138th St. station is now, just north of Harlem River. Dr. Marcellus Bronk, of 225 W. 106th St. is a descendant. He has a distant relative, John Bronk, living in Queens a second cousin William R. Bronk who lives in Pelham. There are no Bronks in the Bronx. Jonas Son Pieter moved upstate and became the first brewer in Albana. There are two Bronks in New Rochelle & Mineola and a good many around Albany. Leonard Bronk Lampman, a retired lawyer living at the Yale Club, is a descendant of Pieter Bronk. |