Kiliaen van Rensselaer was a Dutch diamond and pearl merchant from Amsterdam who was one of the founders and directors of the Dutch West India Company, being instrumental in the establishment of New N
Birth house of Kiliaen van Rensselaer in Hasselt, Netherlands
The West India House in Amsterdam, headquarters of the Dutch West India Company from 1623 to 1647
Van Rensselaer Stained Glass
Rensselaer family gravestone in the church of Nijkerk, that Kiliaen bought commemorating his father Hendrick and uncle Johan. He probably purchased this when his first wife died, as her family name, Byllaer, is on the stone in the lower right. Kiliaen named his sons Hendrick and Johan after these men.
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Rensselaerswyck 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.
Kiliaen van Rensselaer (merchant)
…being instrumental in the establishment of New Netherland. He was one of the first patroons, but the only one to become successful. He founded the Manor of Rensselaerswyck in what is now mainly New York's Capital District. His estate remained throughout the Dutch and British colonial era and the American Revolution as a…
An 1841 oil painting of the Van Rensselaer Manor House by Thomas Cole
The historical marker at the dividing line between the Manor of Rensselaerswyck and Albany, New York
House at the Watervliet farm built by Jeremias van Rensselaer following the April 7, 1666 flood, depicted in an 1839 pencil sketch
A poster announcing an Anti-Rent meeting in Nassau, New York