Hendrick van Rensselaer

Hendrick van Rensselaer
Born (1667-10-23)October 23, 1667
Watervliet, New York
Died July 4, 1740(1740-07-04) (aged 72)
Albany, New York
Residence Fort Crailo
Nationality Dutch-American
Occupation Public Officer, Land owner
Known for Director of the Eastern Manor
Parent(s) Jeremias van Rensselaer
Marritje Van Cortlandt
Relatives See Van Rensselaer family

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 in Columbia County, New York, and land opposite Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, named Greenbush (later Rensselaer, New York).[2]

Early life

Fort Crailo

Hendrick van Rensselaer was born in Watervliet, New York, the fourth child of Jeremias van Rensselaer (1632–1674).

Estate and career

He received as his portion of his grandfather Kiliaen's estate, variously known as the "Eastern Manor" or "Greenbush." It covered about 62,000 acres of land in Columbia County, and encompassed lands south of Kinderhook, north of Livingston Manor and west to the Hudson River and was the “Lower Manor” to the “Upper Manor” of Rensselaerwyck. It was originally a part of Albany County, now Columbia County, New York. In addition, he received 1,500 acres out of the manor proper, opposite the city of Albany. Hendrick built a substantial brick house on the latter estate named Fort Crailo.[3]

He was a merchant and ship owner who served the public as an alderman in the Albany assembly and on the Commission of Indian Affairs. In 1698 he bought from the Schaghticoke tribe a tract of six square miles on Hoosac River, for which he procured a patent. This purchase interfered greatly with the city of Albany. With van Rensselaer declining to sell his patent to the council, the controversy became a state affair. In 1699 the dispute was amicably settled, and he passed his patent over to the city.[3]

Family

In describing the Van Rensselaer family, historian author William L. Stone stated: "They consisted of eighteen males in 1776. During the war every adult, except two old men, and all minors, except four boys, bore arms in one or more battles during the Revolutionary struggle." George W. Schuyler later wrote in his Colonial New York, "... of the eighteen males, sixteen belonged to Hendrick Van Rensselaer's branch, and of these, five were of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer's family."[4]

On March 19, 1689, Hendrick married Catharina Van Brugh, the daughter of merchant Johannes Pieterse Van Brugh (1624–1697) and his wife, Catharine Roeloffe Jans (1629–1684).[5] and had the following children:[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Spooner 1907, p.17
  2. ↑ Spooner, pp. 189
  3. 1 2  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cabell, Isa Carrington (1889). "Van Rensselaer, Killian". In Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John. Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
  4. ↑ Schenectady History
  5. ↑ Bielinski, Stefan. "Catharina Van Brugh Van Rensselaer", New York State Museum
  6. ↑ Spooner, pp. 191
  7. ↑ Bielinski, Stefan. "Johannes Ten Broeck", New York State Museum
  8. ↑ Bielinski, Stefan. "John Van Rensselaer", New York State Museum
  9. ↑ Find A Grave Memorials
  10. ↑ Bergen, Tunis Garret (1915). Genealogies of the State of New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. 3. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. OCLC 39110613.
  11. 1 2 "Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Van Rensselaer". Schenectady Digital History Archive. Schenectady County Public Library. 2009. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
  12. ↑ Calendar of the Military Papers of Peter Gansevoort, [Senior] July 4, 1754 through December 31, 1780 New York State Archives AO131 pp. 10
  13. ↑ Bielinski, Stefan. "Hendrick Van Rensselaer", New York State Museum
  14. ↑ New York In The Revolution as Colony and State by James A. Roberts, Comptroller. Compiled by Frederic G. Mather Second Edition 1898
  15. ↑ Bielinski, Stefan. "Kiliaen Van Rensselaer", New York State Museum
  16. ↑ schenectadyhistory.org - Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Van Rensselaer
  17. ↑ Clarke Publishing Company, S.J; Clarke, S. J. (1912). "Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788–1912".
  18. ↑ "Van Rensselaer/Klinck – New York". Ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
  19. ↑ Denslow, William R; Truman, Harry S (2004-09-30). "10,000 Famous Freemasons V3, K to P". ISBN 9781417975792.
  20. ↑ "Address Before the Whig and Conservative Citizens of Schenectady County
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