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The Van Rensselaer Lower Manor is located on the east side of Claverack, New York, United States. State Route 23 passes to the south. State Route 23 passes to the south. The manor is a combination of two 18th-century houses, one stone and the other frame , later connected with a hyphen .
Front (south) elevation, 1934. The house was built by Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, c. 1805, on a portion of what had been the family's 875,000-acre New York estate near Poughkeepsie. [2]
Maria van Cortlandt van Rensselaer, Jeremias's wife and Kiliaen's mother was the administrator and treasurer of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck until 1687. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] In 1683, one year before Kiliaen became Lord of the Manor, New York Governor Thomas Dongan established Albany County , one of the original twelve counties in New York.
Conyn-Van Rensselaer is a historic home located on Stone Mill Road in the town of Claverack, New York. It is a gambrel-roofed structure of brick, two and a half stories high, and was eventually owned by A. H. Van Rensselaer, a descendant of Hendrick Van Rensselaer. It has recently undergone extensive restoration.
Upon the death of his elder-half brother in 1868, [12] he inherited about 2,500 acres between the Troy and Shaker roads, north of the Van Rensselaer Manor House, [8] while the Manor House and US$15,000 (equivalent to $300,000 in 2023) a year were left his brother's widow. [13]
The Crailo State Historic Site (also known as Fort Crailo and Yankee Doodle House) is a historic, fortified brick manor house in Rensselaer, New York which was built in 1707. The word Crailo is derived from kraaien bos (Dutch for "crow's woods") and refers to Kiliaen van Rensselaer 's estate in Huizen , Holland, which is also named "Crailo". [ 3 ]
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Stephen van Rensselaer was born on March 23, 1707, and was the second son of Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1663–1719) and Maria van Cortlandt. He grew up in the family manor house, just north of Albany, New York .