User:AmericanInAmerica/Adriaen van der Donck

Comma inserted after New York in first paragraph

Comma inserted after Leiden in the paragraph "In 1638, van der Donck entered the University of Leiden as a law student. Leiden had rapidly become an intellectual center due to Dutch religious freedom and the lack of censorship. At Leiden he obtained his Doctor of both laws, that is, both civil and canon law. Despite a booming Dutch economy, van der Donck decided to go to the New World. To this end, he approached the patroon Kiliaen van Rensselaer, securing a post as schout, a combination of sheriff and prosecutor, for his large, semi-independent estate, Rensselaerswijck, located near modern Albany."

Removed an extra "what" in "In return for this favor, Kieft granted van der Donck 24,000 acres (97 km2) on the mainland north of Manhattan in the territory of the Wecquaesgeek in 1646. He named the estate Colen Donck and built several mills along what what he named the Saeck Kill, later to become the Neperham River and today the Saw Mill. The estate was so large that locals referred to him as the Jonkheer ("young gentleman" or "squire"), a word from which the name "Yonkers" is derived. By this time, van der Donck had already married the Englishwoman Mary Doughty, whose father had lost his land after irking Kieft."

Put a comma after "having" in the sentence "Van der Donck prepared to return to New Amsterdam having successfully secured a liberal government for the colony without the restrictions of the Dutch West India Company and national support for emigrating colonists from the Netherlands to the colonies."

Added a comma after "once arrived" in "However, once arrived van der Donck's giving up public office was apparently not enough..."

Added a comma after "In December" in "In December he had to petition for protection from Stuyvesant.."