| New Netherland series | |
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| Exploration | |
| Fortifications: | |
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• De Wal |
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| Settlements: | |
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• Wiltwyck • Bergen • Pavonia |
• Rustdorp • Midwout • Boswyck |
| The Patroon System | |
| Directors of New Netherland:
Cornelius Jacobsen May (1620-25) Willem Verhulst (1625-26) Peter Minuit (1626-32) Sebastiaen Jansen Krol (1632-33) Wouter van Twiller (1633-38) Willem Kieft (1638-47) Peter Stuyvesant (1647-64) |
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| People of New Netherland | |
| Flushing Remonstrance |
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| Rensselaerswyck series | |
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| Dutch West India Company |
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| The Patroon System |
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| Map of Rensselaerswyck |
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| Patroons of Rensselaerswyck: Kiliaen van Rensselaer |
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Stephen van Rensselaer II (June 2, 1742 - d. 1769) Was the son of Stephen van Rensselaer I and Elizabeth Groesbeck. He was the eighth patroon of Rensselaerwyck from 1747 to 1769. He was also the fifth Lord of Rensselaerwyck. [2]
He inherited the affairs of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck when he was 5 years old and the Manor was administered by his brother in law Abraham Ten Broeck until he came of age. He built the new Manor House in 1765.
He married Catherine Livingston, daughter of Philip Livingston, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his wife Christina Ten Broeck, in January 1764 and had the following children:
He was succeeded as Lord of Rensselaerwyck by his son, the sixth Lord of Rensselaerwyck, Stephen van Rensselaer III.