Van Rensselaer

Van Rensselaer
/van ren'seuh lear", ren"seuh leuhr/; for 1 also Du. /vahn rdden"seuh lahrdd'/
1. Kiliaen /kee"lee ahn'/, 1595-1644, Dutch merchant: founder of Dutch West India Company 1621; large landowner in America, colonizing along the Hudson River (ancestor of Stephen Van Rensselaer).
2. Stephen ("the Patroon"), 1765-1839, U.S. political leader and major general.

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