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The Bronx

The Bronx is the only part of the city of New York that is attached to the mainland. The Bronx was first known as Keskeskeck, so named by the Indians who lived there. The Dutch West India Company bought much of the land that is now the Bronx around 1639. Jonas Bronck, an adventurous son of a Danish farmer and self-taught navigator brought his family and servants to the colonies in 1619 and became the first white settler in Keskeskeck. Jonas purchased fifty acres of land between what is now the Harlem and Aquahung River and ultimately gave his name to the borough

The Bronx later became a haven for religious dissenters who drifted out of New England due to the many problems some religious sects were having in that area at the time. John Throgmorton or Throckmorton depending on your source came from Rhode Island and settled in what is now called Throgs Neck. The more relatively more famous Anna Hutchinson brought her family to the Bronx to escape a growing intolerance in Massachusetts to her strong religious beliefs. She and most of her family were killed in an Indian raid. The Hutchinson River was named after Anna. 

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