Jonas Bronck, was born and attended law school in Denmark before moving to Amsterdam, Holland, where he met and married Tryntje Juriannse. In April 1639 he and his wife along with his three indentured laborers and woman servant set sail aboard the Fire of Troy from Wexe, Holland; arriving in the Dutch Colony of New Netherlands in early June 1639. He was granted a land patent of 500 acres by William Kieft, Director General of the Dutch West Indies Company and laid out the first farm and erected the first building in the area. He built a stone and tile house on the site of present day 132nd St near Third Ave. There he deposited a large library of Dutch and Danish volumes, one of the earliest recorded libraries in the Colony. This district, now known as the Bronx, was named for him. In April 1642, his farmhouse was the site of the signing of the Peace Treaty between the Dutch and the warring Indians. After Jonas Bronck’s death in 1643, his widow remarried and moved to Albany, New York. Among their many children was a daughter Margariet Bronck who married Joseph Fitchett, son of James de Fichet who had arrived in New Amsterdam in 1623.25