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Kiliaen Van Rensselaer



Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen (1595–1643), Dutch colonizer and leading patroon (landowner). A member of the Dutch West India Company, he established the manor of Rensselaerswyck on the banks of the Hudson River, south of Albany.

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