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==Site of homestead== [[File:Manatvs gelegen op de Noot Riuier.jpg|thumb|Map (c. 1639) ''Manhattan situated on the North Rivier'' with numbered key showing settlements with No. 43 representing the Bronck homestead; No. 42, across the Harlem River, represents that of Kuyter,<ref>{{cite news | title = Earliest known Manhattan map made in 1639 | newspaper = The New York Times | date = March 25, 1917 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/03/25/102325442.pdf | access-date = December 26, 2012 }}</ref> who had sailed with Bronck and took the land on the Manhattan side of the river.]] 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."<ref name="NJCook"/> Kuyter chose land on the west bank on the island of Manhattan;<ref>{{Citation | last = Riker | first = James | title = Harlem: Its Origins and Early Annals | place = Elizabeth, New Jersey| publisher = New Harlem Publishing Company | year = 1904 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uAAmEO_WshUC&q=Harlem%3A+Its+Origins+and+Early+Annals }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Harlem in the Old Times | newspaper = The New York Times | date = January 11, 1880 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1880/01/11/98876947.pdf | access-date = December 30, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Harlem In The Old Times Fighting Hostile Indians on the Flats | publisher = The History Box | date = May 23, 2012 | url = http://www.thehistorybox.com/ny_city/nycity_harlem_old_times_article1419.htm | access-date = February 8, 2014 | archive-date = October 19, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221019132905/http://www.thehistorybox.com/ny_city/nycity_harlem_old_times_article1419.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref> Bronck settled on the mainland. Teuntje and Jonas Bronck's house was built by a promontory at the juncture of the [[Harlem River]] and the [[Bronx Kill]] across from [[Randalls and Wards Islands|Randalls Island]] and was constructed like "a miniature fort with stone walls and a tile roof".<ref>{{Citation | last = Comfort | first = Randall | title = Excursion Planned For the City History Club of New York |publisher=Frederick A. Stokes Co. |year = 1906 | volume = IX | pages = 186, 195 |url = https://archive.org/stream/excursionplanned1910comf/excursionplanned1910comf_djvu.txt}}</ref> Bronck's farmstead consisted of approximately {{convert|274|ha|acre}},<ref name = Komstad/> which being a religious man, he named Emaus.<ref>{{Citation |title=The Story of the Bronx from the Purchase Made by the Dutch from the Indians in 1639 to the Present Day | last = Jenkins | first = Stephen | publisher = Heritage Books | year = 1912 | edition = reprint 2007 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=E9nIC6Lva5sC | isbn=9780788423383}}</ref> ([[Emmaus]], according to the [[New Testament]], is where [[Jesus]] appeared before two of his followers after his [[resurrection of Jesus|resurrection]].<ref>Holy Bible: St. Luke 24: 13β35; ''Encyclopaedia Judaica'', Keter Publishing House, Jerusalem, 1972, "Emmaus", Vol. 6, pp. 726β727</ref>) The site is in present-day [[Mott Haven]], about 1,000 feet south of [[Bruckner Boulevard]] and 500 feet east of the [[Willis Avenue Bridge]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bronxmall.com/cult/series/2.html|title=THE BRONX MALL Cultural Mosaic β The Bronx... Its History & Perspective|website=www.bronxmall.com}}</ref> on a tract (at approximately {{nowrap|{{coord|40|48|13|N|73|55|33|W|type:landmark_region:US-NY|display=inline|name=Jonas Bronck homestead}}}}) now part of the [[Harlem River Intermodal Yard]], through which runs the [[Oak Point Link]].
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