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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.
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.
Johannes van Rensselaer (d. 1719) Gertrude van Rensselaer, (b. 1714) m. (1) Adonis Schuyler; m. (2) Robert Livingston (1708–1790). [3] John Baptist van Rensselaer (1717–1763). [3] Maria Van Cortlandt (1645–1689) m. 1662: Jeremias van Rensselaer (1632–1674) Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (1663–1719) m. 1701: Maria Van Cortlandt, his first ...
Robert Van Rensselaer (1740–1802) Henry Van Rensselaer (ca 1742–1813) James Van Rensselaer (1747–1827), a Captain and aide de camp of Maj. Gen. Montgomery who fought in the Canadian campaign of Fort Chambly in Quebec and was Captain in the 2nd New York Regiment under Colonel James Clinton and later aide de camp of General Philip Schuyler .
Philip John Schuyler was born on November 20 [O.S. November 9] 1733 [3] in Albany, New York, to Cornelia Van Cortlandt (1698–1762) and Johannes ("John") Schuyler Jr. (1697–1741), the third generation of the Dutch Schuyler family in America. His maternal grandfather was Stephanus Van Cortlandt, the 17th Mayor of New York City. [4]
The Van Rensselaer family was an influential family of patroons in New York from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries; compare to the Livingston family and Schuyler family. Edith Wharton , who was a cousin, portrays them in her novel The Age of Innocence as the Van der Luydens.
Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler (/ ˈ s k aɪ l ər /; also known as "Kitty", November 10, 1734 – March 7, 1803) [1] was a Colonial and post-Colonial American socialite and the matriarch of the prominent colonial Schuyler family as wife of Philip Schuyler.
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]