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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.
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.
The property was inherited by Hendrick van Rensselaer, Kiliean's grandson, who built the house in 1707. His son, Johannes, was a captain in the colonial militia. Captain van Rensselaer inherited Crailo in 1740. The gunports were likely added after a raiding party of 80 French and Indians attacked Greenbush, killing up to five persons in 1746.
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.
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.
Johannes Megapolensis [a] (1603–1670) was a dominie ... When it became known that Van Rensselaer planned to erect a church upriver at Rensselaerswyck, ...
The Livingston family of New York is a prominent family that migrated from Scotland to the Dutch Republic, and then to the Province of New York in the 17th century. Descended from the 4th Lord Livingston, [1] its members included signers of the United States Declaration of Independence (Philip Livingston) and the United States Constitution (William Livingston).