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13 de dic. de 2022 · Maria van Rensselaer's great-grandson, Stephen van Rensselaer II (1742-1769), inherited the manor at age five when his father Stephen van Rensselaer died in 1747. During his short tenure as patroon, he expanded the tenant base and made a number of improvements to the property. On his death in 1769, the estate passed to his son, five-year-old ...
30 de may. de 2024 · Van Rensselaer was born in New York City, the eldest child of Stephen Van Rensselaer II and Catharina Livingston. His family was very wealthy, and the Van Rensselaer Manor House was a rich childhood environment for the young boy to grow up in. However, his father died in 1769, when he was only 5 years old, and the heir to his father's estate.
Stephen Van Rensselaer III was born in New York City in 1764 - the first child of Stephen Van Rensselaer II and Catharina Livingston. He grew up at the Van Rensselaer Manor House - home of the most advantaged family in the Upper Hudson region. Losing his father at age five, he was looked after by his uncle, Abraham Ten Broeck - trustee or ...
Stephen Van Rensselaer, II article in Wikipedia. Find-A-Grave Virtual Cemetery memorial # in Robison, Jeannie Floyd Jones, and Henrietta C. Bartlett. Genealogical Records; Manuscript Entries of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Taken from Family Bibles, 1581-1917. New York: Colonial Dames of New York, 1917. p. 255-257. Acknowledgments
Stephen Van Rensselaer III was an American landowner, businessman, militia officer, and politician. A graduate of Harvard College, at age 21, Van Rensselaer took control of Rensselaerswyck, his family's manor. He developed the land by encouraging tenants to settle it and granting them perpetual leases at moderate rates, which enabled the tenants to use more of their capital to make their farms ...
Between 1765 and 1769, Stephen Van Rensselaer II built the grand manor house that sat on the west bank of the Hudson River, just north of downtown Albany. The Van Rensselaer family held vast tracts of land on both sides of the river, land originally granted in 1630 to Kiliaen van Rensselaer, an Amsterdam diamond merchant and director of the Dutch West India Company.
3 de dic. de 2023 · Stephen Van Rensselaer was badly defeated by the British at the Battle of Queenston Heights on October 12, 1812, and he resigned his post shortly thereafter. Stephen Van Rensselaer III was born in New York City in 1764, the first child of Stephen Van Rensselaer II and Catharina Livingston.
