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What was here before?
The Weckquaesgeek Lenape occupied the site that is now Brust Park. In 1639, the Dutch East India Company brought the first Europeans to settle what is now the Bronx. In 1646, Dutchman Adriaen Van Der Donck (1620-1655) received the first patent to this land. After he died, the property was purchased by Frederick Philipse, a powerful, unscrupulous landowner and British Loyalist, who lost his property at the end of the Revolutionary War.
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