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- Adriaen_van_der_Donck abstract "Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck (c.1618 – 1655) was a lawyer and landowner in New Netherland after whose honorific Jonkheer the city of Yonkers, New York is named. In addition to being the first lawyer in the Dutch colony, he was a leader in the political life of New Amsterdam (modern New York City), and an activist for Dutch-style republican government in the Dutch West India Company-run trading post.Enchanted by his new homeland of New Netherland, van der Donck made detailed accounts of the land, vegetation, animals, waterways, topography, and climate. Van der Donck used this knowledge to actively promote immigration to the colony, publishing several tracts, including his influential Description of New Netherland. Charles Gehring, Director of the New Netherland Institute, has called it \"the fullest account of the province, its geography, the Indians who inhabited it, and its prospects...It has been said that had it not been written in Dutch, it would have gone down as one of the great works of American colonial literature.\"Van der Donck is a central figure in Russell Shorto's The Island at the Center of the World, which argues, based on newly translated records from the colony, that he was a great early American patriot, forgotten by history because of the eventual English conquest of New Netherland.Today, he is also recognized as a sympathetic early Native American ethnographer, having learned the languages and observed many of the customs of the Mahicans and Mohawks. His descriptions of their practices are cited in many modern works, such as the 2005 book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.".
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- Adriaen_van_der_Donck birthName "Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck".
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- Adriaen_van_der_Donck birthYear "1618".
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- Adriaen_van_der_Donck deathYear "1655".
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- Adriaen_van_der_Donck wikiPageWikiLinkText "Adriaen van der Donck".
- Adriaen_van_der_Donck almaMater Leiden_University.
- Adriaen_van_der_Donck birthDate "1618".
- Adriaen_van_der_Donck birthName "Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck".
- Adriaen_van_der_Donck birthPlace Breda.
- Adriaen_van_der_Donck birthPlace Dutch_Republic.
- Adriaen_van_der_Donck caption "Presumed portrait of Adriaen van der Donck".
- Adriaen_van_der_Donck deathDate "1655".
- Adriaen_van_der_Donck deathPlace New_Netherland.
- Adriaen_van_der_Donck footer "Two pages from van der Donck's Description of New Netherland".
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