Van Rensselaer (surname)
Van Rensselaer coat of arms originally had the Dutch motto: niemand zonder; no one without it (the cross). Modern motto: omnibus effulgemus; we shine for all.
Van Rensselaer is a surname of Dutch origin. Van is a Dutch preposition meaning from and is a common prefix in Dutch language surnames. In the Netherlands, "van" is written with a lower case "v"; in the United States the particle "Van" is usually capitalized, but individual usage should be followed.[1]
Most of the Van Rensselaers emigrated from the Netherlands to a large area along the Hudson River in the present day area of Albany, New York. The Van Rensselaers and other patroons named this young colony New Netherland. Many members of the family have been active in politics and in the military.[2][3]
Patroons of Rensselaerswyck
- Kiliaen van Rensselaer (merchant) (1586–1643)
- Johannes Van Rensselaer (1625–1663), the second "Patroon"
- Jan Baptist van Rensselaer (1629–1678), Director of Rensselaerwyck from 1652 to 1658 and third "Patroon"[4]
Lords of the Manor
- Kiliaen van Rensselaer (fourth patroon) (died 1687), son of Johan and First Lord of the Manor
- Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (fifth patroon) (1663–1719), son of Jeremias, and second Lord of the Manor
- Jeremias Van Rensselaer (sixth patroon) (1705–1743), son of Kiliaen, and third Lord of the Manor
- Stephen van Rensselaer I (1707–1747), son of Kiliaen, brother of Jeremias, seventh Patroon and fourth Lord of the Manor
- Stephen van Rensselaer II (1742–1769), son of Stephen, eighth Patroon and fifth Lord of the Manor
- Stephen Van Rensselaer (1764–1839), US Representative from New York and Lt. Gov. of New York, founder and namesake of *Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, son of Stephen II, ninth Patroon and sixth Lord of the Manor and the tenth "Patroon"
- Stephen Van Rensselaer IV, son of Stephen III, last Patroon and seventh and last Lord of the Manor
List of people with the surname Van Rensselaer
- Charles W. van Rensselaer (1823–1857), first officer on the SS Central America
- Cortlandt Van Rensselaer (1808–1860), Presbyterian clergyman.
- Hendrick van Rensselaer (1667–1740)
- Henry Bell Van Rensselaer (1810–1864), US Representative from New York, and Union Army general
- Henry K. Van Rensselaer (1744–1816), General in the American Revolution
- James van Rensselaer (military figure) (1747-1827)
- James Van Rensselaer (1783-March 12, 1847), founder of Rensselaer, Indiana[5][6]
- Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (1738–1810), US Representative from New York, and Lt. Gov. of New York
- Jeremias van Rensselaer (1632–1674), Director of Rensselaerwyck
- Kiliaen van Rensselaer (colonel) (1717–1781), Colonel in the American Revolution
- Killian K. Van Rensselaer (1763–1845), US Representative from New York
- Mariana Alley Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851–1934), critic, author
- Martha Van Rensselaer (1864–1932), Founding director of Cornell University’s New York State College of Home Economics (now the New York State College of Human Ecology)
- Nicholas Van Rensselaer (military figure) (1754–1848), Colonel in the Revolutionary War
- Nicholas van Rensselaer (minister) (1636-1678), New York Reformed Church clergy
- Philip Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1747–1798)
- Philip S. Van Rensselaer (1767–1824), Mayor of Albany, New York
- Robert Van Rensselaer (1740–1802), Brigadier General in American Revolution, New York politician
- Solomon Van Rensselaer (1774–1852), US Representative from New York
References
- ↑ U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual; Chapter 3 - Capitalization Rules; Rule 3.14: "In anglicized names such particles are usually capitalized...but individual usage...should be followed."
- ↑ Van Rensselaer, Maunsell (1888). Annals of the Van Rensselaers in the United States, especially as they relate to the family of Killian K. Van Rensselaer C. Van Benthuysen & Sons, p. 215
- ↑ Bonney, Catharina V. R. (Catharina Van Rensselaer)(1875). Alegacy of Historical Gleanings J. Munsell
- ↑ Van Rensselaer, Jeremias. Correspondence of Jeremias Van Rensselaer, 1651-1674, University of the State of New York, 1932
- ↑ Hamilton, Lewis H. and Darroch, William (1916). A standard history of Jasper and Newton counties, Indiana, Vol. 1, p. 137. Lewis Publishing Company
- ↑ Spooner, Walter Whipple (January 1907). "The Van Rensselaer Family", American Historical Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 207.