<Tr> <Td_colspan="7"> Sources: and see individual borough articles </Td> </Tr> <P> The Bronx was called Rananchqua by the native Siwanoy band of Lenape (also known historically as the Delawares), while other Native Americans knew the Bronx as Keskeskeck . It was divided by the Aquahung River . </P> <P> The origin of the person of Jonas Bronck (c. 1600--43) is contested . Some sources claim he was a Swedish born emigrant from Komstad, Norra Ljunga parish in Småland, Sweden, who arrived in New Netherland during the spring of 1639 . Bronck became the first recorded European settler in the area now known as the Bronx and built a farm named "Emmanus" close to what today is the corner of Willis Avenue and 132nd Street in Mott Haven . He leased land from the Dutch West India Company on the neck of the mainland immediately north of the Dutch settlement in Harlem (on Manhattan Island), and bought additional tracts from the local tribes . He eventually accumulated 500 acres (200 ha) between the Harlem River and the Aquahung, which became known as Bronck's River or the Bronx (River). Dutch and English settlers referred to the area as Bronck's Land . The American poet William Bronk was a descendant of Pieter Bronck, either Jonas Bronck's son or his younger brother . More recent research indicates that Pieter was probably Jonas' nephew or cousin, but certainly of the same family . </P> <P> The Bronx is referred to with the definite article as "The Bronx", both legally and colloquially . The County of Bronx does not place "The" immediately before "Bronx" in formal references, unlike the coextensive Borough of the Bronx, nor does the United States Postal Service in its database of Bronx addresses (the city and state mailing - address format is simply "Bronx, NY"). The region was apparently named after the Bronx River and first appeared in the "Annexed District of The Bronx" created in 1874 out of part of Westchester County . It was continued in the "Borough of The Bronx", which included a larger annexation from Westchester County in 1898 . The use of the definite article is attributed to the style of referring to rivers . Another explanation for the use of the definite article in the borough's name is that the original form of the name was a possessive or collective one referring to the family, as in visiting "the Broncks", "the Bronck's", or "the Broncks"'. </P>

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