Stephen van Rensselaer II
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Stephen van Rensselaer II (June 2, 1742 – October 19, 1769) was the six and youngest child of Stephen van Rensselaer I and Elizabeth Groesbeck.
Life
He was the eighth Patroon of Rensselaerwyck from 1747 to 1769. He was also the fifth Lord of the Manor.[2]
As sole-surviving son, he inherited the Manor of Rensselaerwyck when he was 5 years old; the Manor was administered by his brother in law Abraham Ten Broeck until he came of age. At the age of twenty, Stephen II was commissioned a captain in the Albany County Militia.[3] He built the new Manor House in 1765. Stephen Van Rensselaer II died in October 1769 at the age of twenty-seven.
Family
He married Catherine Livingston (1745–1810), daughter of Philip Livingston, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his wife Christina Ten Broeck, in January 1764 and had the following children:
- Stephen van Rensselaer III (November 1, 1764 – January 26, 1839), sixth and last Patroon of Rensselaerwyck.
- Philip S. Van Rensselaer (April 15. 1767 - September 25, 1824), Mayor of the city of Albany, New York
- Elizabeth Van Rensselaer (1768–1841), first marriage to John Bradstreet Schuyler May 18, 1787, son of General Philip Schuyler and second marriage to John Bleeker in 1800.
See also
References
- ↑ Spooner 1907, p.17
- ↑ Spooner, pp. 22, 23
- ↑ Bielinski, Stefan. "Stephen Van Rensselaer II", New York State Museum
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