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Johan van Rensselaer also Johannes van Rensselaer (Amsterdam, 4 September 1625 – Nijkerk, 6 May 1663 [2]), second patroon of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, was the eldest son of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, and his only son by his first wife, Hillegonda van Bylaer.
The Van Rensselaer family (/ ˈ r ɛ n s l ər,-s l ɪər /) is a family of Dutch descent that was prominent during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries in the area now known as the state of New York.
Robert Van Rensselaer was born December 16, 1740, at Fort Crailo in Rensselaer, Province of New York.He was the son of Johannes Van Rensselaer (1708–1793), and Engeltie "Angelica" Livingston (1698–1746/47), descendants of ethnic Dutch and English colonists.
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (August 27, 1738 – February 19, 1810), from the prominent Van Rensselaer family, was the lieutenant governor of New York and a member of Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing New York in the 1st United States Congress.
He was the youngest of eleven children born to Hendrick van Rensselaer of Fort Crailo by Catharina (née Van Brugh) Van Rensselaer. [1] Among his older siblings were Johannes Van Rensselaer. His father was director of the Eastern patent of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck which covered roughly 62,000 acres of land in what is now Columbia County. [2]
Mark of the colony of Rensselaerswyck, by Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the first Patroon of Rensselaerswyck, the 1630s. On July 12, 1662, [2] [b] the nearly seventeen-year-old Maria married Jeremias van Rensselaer, who was the Patroon and Director of Rensselaerswyck. [3] [7] [c] She was then known as Maria van Rensselaer or Maria van Cortland van ...
Catharina Van Brugh (1665–1730), who married Hendrick van Rensselaer (1667–1740), director of the Eastern patent and son of Jeremias van Rensselaer, the acting patroon of the manor of Rensselaerswyck. [4] Pieter Van Brugh (1666–1740), who served as Mayor of Albany, New York from 1699 to 1700 and again from 1721 to 1723. He married Sara ...
He was the only surviving son of nine children born to Petrus Douw (1692–1775), of an old Dutch family, [3] and Anna (née Van Rensselaer) Douw (1696–1756). [4] [5] His siblings included Magdalena Douw (1718–1796), who married Harmen Gansevoort (1712–1801), Maria Douw (1725–1759), who married Johannes Gansevoort, and Rachel Douw (1736 ...