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  2. Map of Rensselaerswyck - Wikipedia

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    The Map of Rensselaerswyck is a map created during the 1630s, probably 1632, at the request of the owner of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, Kiliaen van Rensselaer, Dutch jeweler and patroon. Rensselaerswyck was the only successful patroonship [ 1 ] within the colony of New Netherland , settled by the Dutch West India Company at the behest of the ...

  3. Rensselaerswyck - Wikipedia

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    Rensselaerswyck [a] was a 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 United States. The estate was originally deeded by the Dutch West India Company in 1630 to Kiliaen van Rensselaer , a Dutch merchant and one of the company's original ...

  4. Rensselaer County, New York - Wikipedia

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    Map of Rensselaer County in 1829. The area that is now Rensselaer County was inhabited by the Algonquian-speaking Mohican Indian tribe at the time of European encounter. Kiliaen van Rensselaer, a Dutch jeweler and merchant, purchased the area in 1630 and incorporated it in his patroonship Rensselaerswyck. (It was part of the Dutch colony New ...

  5. Fort Orange (New Netherland) - Wikipedia

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    Map of Rensselaers Wyck anno 1630 with Fort Orange Map of Castle Island and Fort Orange in 1629. In 1624, a ship with 30 Protestant Walloons (people from what is today southern Belgium) landed in New Netherland; 18 of the men were sent to the location near present-day Albany.

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Rensselaer ...

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    The locations of those National Register properties and districts in Rensselaer County for which latitude and longitude coordinates are listed below may be seen on a map by clicking on the links available within the table above and to the right, which allows readers to map all coordinates using online maps. [4]

  7. Van Rensselaer family - Wikipedia

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    Rensselaerswyck series; Dutch West India Company: The Patroon System: Map of Rensselaerswyck: Patroons of Rensselaerswyck: Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1630–1640s) Various (1640s–1652) Jan Baptist van Rensselaer (1652–1658) Jeremias van Rensselaer (1658–1674) Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1674–1687) Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1687–1719) [2 ...

  8. Kiliaen van Rensselaer (merchant) - Wikipedia

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    Original Map of Rensselaerswyck, c. 1632 Van Rensselaer was quick to take part in the new endeavor: on 13 January 1629, he sent notification [ 33 ] to the Directors of the Company that he, in conjunction with fellow Company members Samuel Godin and Samuel Blommaert , had sent Gillis Houset and Jacob Jansz Cuyper to determine satisfactory ...

  9. Category:17th-century maps and globes - Wikipedia

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    Map of Rensselaerswyck; Merian map of Paris; P. List of places depicted in the Mao Kun map; R. Radziwiłł map; Ryūsen-zu; S. Selden Map; Shanhai Yudi Quantu; T.