Jeremiah Van Rensselaer

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Early life

Jeremiah Van Rensselaer was born on August 27, 1738, at the main home of his family's manor, "Rensselaerswyck" in the Province of New York, in what is now the city of Watervliet.<ref name="Bielinski"/> His parents were Johannes Van Rensselaer (1708–1793) and Engeltie "Angelica" Livingston (1698–1747),<ref name="Munsell"/> who married in 1734.<ref name="Reynolds">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Munsell"/> He was the third of six children: Catherine (b. 1734), Margarita (b. 1736), Jeremiah, Robert (b. 1740), Hendrick (b. 1742), and James (b. 1747).<ref name="Munsell"/> His mother died before he was 10 years-old and his father remarried, to Gertrude van Cortlandt.

His older sister was Catherine van Rensselaer (1734–1803) who in 1755 married Philip Schuyler (1733–1804), a Revolutionary general and United States Senator from New York. This relationship made him the maternal uncle to Angelica Schuyler (1756–1814), who married British MP John Barker Church, Elizabeth Schuyler (1757–1854), who married Alexander Hamilton, the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Margarita Schuyler (1758–1801), who married Stephen Van Rensselaer III, the son of Jeremiah's first cousin, Stephen van Rensselaer II (1742–1769), and Philip Jeremiah Schuyler (1768–1835), who also served in the United States House of Representatives.<ref>Spooner, Walter Whipple (January 1907). "The Van Rensselaer Family", American Historical Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 207.</ref>

His younger brother was Robert Van Rensselaer (1740–1802), a Brigadier General during the Revolutionary War, a member of the New York Provincial Congress from 1775 to 1777 and later a member of the New York State Assembly in the 1st, 2nd and 4th New York State Legislatures. Robert's son and Jeremiah's nephew was Jacob Van Rensselaer (1767–1835), a Federalist member of the New York State Assembly and the Secretary of State of New York from 1813 to 1815.<ref name="nrhpinv_ny">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} See also: {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Education

Van Rensselaer was tutored at the manor house, attended private school in Albany, New York, and attended college at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) where he graduated in 1758.<ref name="JVRCBio"/>

Family

Jeremiah was descended from and married into "the best provincial families"<ref name=Bielinski>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in New York including the Livingstons, Schuylers, Van Cortlandts, Van Schaicks, and Bayards.<ref name="RLiv&ASchDesc">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

His paternal grandfather was Hendrick van Rensselaer (1667–1740), director of the Eastern patent of the Rensselaerswyck manor, and his paternal grandmother was Catharina Van Brugh, daughter of merchant Johannes Pieterse Van Brugh (1624–1697).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He had many noteworthy cousins, including Killian K. Van Rensselaer (1763–1845), who was also a U.S. Representative who served in Congress from 1803 until 1811.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

His maternal grandparents were Robert Livingston Jr. (1663–1725) and Margarita Schuyler (b. 1682). His maternal great-grandparents were Pieter Schuyler (1657–1724), the first Mayor of Albany, and Engeltie Van Schaick (d. 1689).

Career

Van Rensselaer became a land agent, merchant, and surveyor. According to the 1790 and 1800 U.S. censuses, his household included three slaves.<ref name="Congress slaveowners">Template:Citation</ref> In 1766, he was a signer of the constitution of the Albany Sons of Liberty and became a member of the Albany Committee of Safety. During the American Revolutionary War he was commissioned as an ensign in the third regiment of the New York Line where he served as a paymaster.<ref name="Bielinski"/>

He was elected to the First United States Congress and served from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1791,<ref name="JVRCBio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> but lost his bid for reelection to the Second Congress to James Gordon.<ref name="JVRCBio"/> He later ran for the 7th congressional district in 1793, losing to Federalist nominee Henry Glen.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1789, he was member of the New York State Assembly. In 1791, he was a member of the first board of directors of the Bank of Albany, and from 1798 through 1806, served as president of the bank.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He was a presidential elector in 1800, voting for Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.<ref name="JVRCBio"/>

Van Rensselaer was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1801 to 1804, serving under Governor George Clinton. He was curator of the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary at Albany in 1804.<ref name="Bielinski"/>

Personal life

On July 3, 1760,<ref name="Princetonians">Template:Cite book</ref> he married Judith Bayard, the great-granddaughter of Nicholas Bayard (1644–1707). Together, they had one son:<ref name="Judith">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Johannes "John" Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (1762–1828),<ref name="Judith"/> who married Catharina Glen (1765–1807).<ref name="Munsell">Template:Cite book</ref>

In February 1764, after his first wife's death of Yellow Fever,<ref name="Princetonians"/> he married Helena "Lena" Lansing.

He died on February 19, 1810, in Albany and was buried in the Dutch Reformed cemetery there. His body was later moved to the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York.<ref name="JVRCBio"/>

Descendants

Although Van Rensselaer only had one son, he had many grandchildren, including:

Catharina Glen Van Rensselaer (1785–1866), who married Nanning Visscher,<ref name="Reynolds" /><ref name="Munsell2">Template:Cite book</ref>
John Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (b. 1790), who died young,<ref name="Reynolds" />
Jeremias "Jeremiah" Van Rensselaer (1796–1871),<ref name="Munsell" /> a well known physician who was the first American to climb Mont Blanc, who first married Charlotte Foster and later Anne F. Waddington<ref name="Reynolds" /><ref name="nysl">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Glen Van Rensselaer (b. 1795)
Elizabeth Bayard Van Rensselaer (b. 1797)
Cornelius Glen Van Rensselaer (1801–1871), who married Catharine Westerlo Bleecker, daughter of John Bleecker and Elizabeth Van Rensselaer (the daughter of Stephen Van Rensselaer II)
Archibald Van Rensselaer (b. 1803).<ref name="Munsell" /><ref name="Reynolds" />

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