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Van Rensselaer. 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 known as the state of New York. Members of this family played a critical role in the formation of the United States and served as leaders in business, politics and society.
Early life. Louisa was born on October 12, 1836, in New York City. She was the daughter of William Barnewall (1792–1874), an attorney, and Clementina ( née Rutgers) Barnewall (1800–1838), who married in 1818. [3] After her mother's death when Louisa was only 2 years old, her father remarried to Anne Coles (1808–1885).
May King Van Rensselaer. Portrait of May King Van Rensselaer that appeared in The Evening World in 1920. May King Van Rensselaer (née Maria Denning King; May 25, 1848 – May 11, 1925), was an American author, historian and prominent member of the New York Historical Society. She was instrumental in the founding of the Museum of the City of ...
Peggy Schuyler was born in Albany, New York on September 19, 1758, the third daughter of Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler (1734–1803) and Philip Schuyler (1733–1804), a wealthy patroon and major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. She had seven siblings who lived to adulthood, including Philip Jeremiah Schuyler ...
Georgiana, who was known as "Miss Georgie", [1] was born in New York City on January 4, 1873. She was the daughter of John Christoper Wilmerding (1829–1903) [2] and Georgiana L. ( née Heckscher) Wilmerding (1845–1926). [3] Her siblings included Edward Coster Wilmerding [4] and John C. Wilmerding, who married Mary Fatimeh de Lex Allen, a ...
Population. (1839) • Total. About 3,000. 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 ...
August 3, 1979. Patroon Agent's House and Office, also known as the Casparus Pruyn House and Office or Whish-Hull House and H. V. Rector office, is a historic home and office located on the Hudson River at Rensselaer in Rensselaer County, New York. It was built and first occupied Nov. 29, 1839 and consists of a 21⁄2 -story rectangular brick ...
Manor of Rensselaerswyck. The Van Rensselaer family was an influential family of patroons in New York from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries; compare to the Livingston family and Schuyler family. Edith Wharton, who was a cousin, portrays them in her novel The Age of Innocence as the Van der Luydens.