• Charles Watkins Van Rensselaer (January 29, 1823 – September 12, 1857) was the first officer and paymaster serving on board the U.S. mail ship known as...
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    The Van Rensselaer family (/ˈrɛnslər, -slɪər/) is a family of Dutch descent that was prominent during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries in the area now...
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    Stephen Van Rensselaer III (/ˈrɛnslər, -slɪər/; November 1, 1764 – January 26, 1839) was an American landowner, businessman, militia officer, and politician...
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    Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler (/ˈskaɪlər/; also known as "Kitty", November 10, 1734 – March 7, 1803) was a Colonial and post-Colonial American socialite...
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    Van Rensselaer (1850–1933), tennis player Charles W. van Rensselaer (1823–1857), first officer on the SS Central America Cortlandt Van Rensselaer (1808–1860)...
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    Kiliaen van Rensselaer (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkɪlijaːɱ vɑn ˈrɛnsəlaːr] ; 1586 – buried 7 October 1643) was a Dutch diamond and pearl merchant from Amsterdam...
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    Killian Killian Van Rensselaer (June 9, 1763 – June 18, 1845) was an American lawyer and Federalist politician who served in the United States Congress...
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    Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer (September 19, 1758 – March 14, 1801) was the third daughter of Continental Army General Philip Schuyler. She...
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    John Sanders Van Rensselaer (April 10, 1792 – March 19, 1868) was an American lawyer and soldier. Van Rensselaer was born on April 10, 1792, in New York...
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    Robert Van Rensselaer (December 16, 1740 – September 11, 1802) was Brigadier General during the American Revolutionary War, a member of the New York Provincial...
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  • Hendrick van Rensselaer (October 23, 1667 – July 4, 1740) was director of the Eastern patent of the Rensselaerswyck manor. The estate was composed of land...
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    (1802–1888), who married Cornelius Van Buren Van Rensselaer (1793–1868), son of Col. Nicholas Van Rensselaer. Charles Alexander Genet (1805–1838) Cornelia...
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    Rensselaer /rɛnsəˈlɪər/ is a city in Rensselaer County, New York, United States, and is located on the east side of the Hudson River, opposite Albany...
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    Officers" NOAA list of deadliest hurricanes http://www.wncrocks.com/ARCTIC%20DISCOVERER.html 31°35′N 77°02′W / 31.583°N 77.033°W / 31.583; -77.033...
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  • Nicholas van Rensselaer (born in Amsterdam in September 1636 – died in Albany, New York, in November 1678) was a Reformed Dutch Church clergyman, and one...
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    (1698–1746/7) ∞ Johannes Van Rensselaer (1708–1783) Catherine Van Rensselaer (1734–1803) ∞ Philip Schuyler (1733–1804) Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (1738–1810) ∞ (1)...
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    Dutch colonial patroonship and later an English manor owned by the van Rensselaer family located in the present-day Capital District of New York in the...
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  • Kiliaen van Rensselaer (December 27, 1717 – December 28, 1781) was a colonial American soldier and politician who was a member of the prominent Van Rensselaer...
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    Gertrude Van Rensselaer (b. 1714), daughter of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer John Schuyler (1710–1773) m. Anne Van Rensselaer (b. 1719), daughter of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer...
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    rapids of the Iroquois River. By 1844, it had been renamed "Rensselaer", after James Van Rensselaer, a merchant from Utica, New York, who came to the area...
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    Paterson Van Rensselaer (March 6, 1805 – November 13, 1872) was an American attorney, landowner, and businessman from New York. Van Rensselaer was born...
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  • from New York Henry Waldron, U.S. Representative from Michigan Charles W. van Rensselaer first officer and paymaster aboard the SS Central America when...
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    world and the Western Hemisphere. It was established in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer and Amos Eaton for the "application of science to the common purposes...
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  • Philip S. van Rensselaer (1767–1824), Mayor of Albany, New York 1799–1814 1819–21. Brother of Stephen van Rensselaer III. Henry van Rensselaer (1810–1864)...
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    own colony. When Van Rensselaer learned that van der Donck sought to acquire neighboring land to his own, he snapped it up first. Van der Donck's contract...
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  • Alida van Rensselaer Livingston (née Schuyler; 1656–1727) was a Dutch businesswoman in Dutch Colonial America (New Netherlands) who exerted a considerable...
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  • Louisa Barnewall Van Rensselaer (October 12, 1836 – July 3, 1920), was a prominent member of New York Society during the Gilded Age. Louisa was born on...
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    12 years. The incident began with the death of Stephen Van Rensselaer III in 1839. Van Rensselaer, who was described as a "lenient and benevolent landowner"...
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  • Kiliaen van Rensselaer (died February 22, 1687), was the patroon of Manor of Rensselaerswyck. Kiliaen van Rensselaer, who was born in Holland, was the...
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    George W. (1885). Colonial New York: Philip Schuyler and His Family, Volume 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 282. Bielinski, Stefan. "Rensselaer Schuyler"...
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