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'''Col. Kiliaen van Rensselaer''' - (Dec 27, 1717 - Dec 28, 1781)
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Colonel '''Kiliaen van Rensselaer''' (December 27, 1717 – December 28, 1781) was a colonial American soldier and politician who was a member of the prominent ].
]


==Early life==
He was commissioned Colonel of the , ] battalion on Oct 20, 1775 during the ]. Kiliaen van Rensselaer was chairman of the ].<ref>http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/vr/kvr5131.html</ref> He was born and died in Albany County, NY.
Kiliaen was born on December 27, 1717, around ] in the ]. He was the youngest of eleven children born to ] of ] by Catharina (] Van Brugh) Van Rensselaer.<ref name="CvBvRnysm">{{cite web |last1=Bielinski |first1=Stefan |title=Catharina Van Brugh Van Rensselaer |url=http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/vb/cavbrugh8627.html |website=exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov |publisher=] |accessdate=18 May 2020}}</ref> Among his older siblings were ]. His father was director of the Eastern patent of the ] which covered roughly 62,000 acres of land in what is now ].<ref name="Reynolds1911"/>


His paternal grandparents were ] (sister of ] ] and ]) and ], the acting ] of Rensselaerswyck from 1658 to 1674 (who was a son of ], one of the founders and directors of the ]). Among his nephews were Brig. Gen. ]. In describing the ], historian author William L. Stone stated: "They consisted of eighteen males in 1776. During the war every adult, except two old men, and all minors, except four boys, bore arms in one or more battles during the Revolutionary struggle." ] later wrote in his ''Colonial New York'', "... of the eighteen males, sixteen belonged to Hendrick Van Rensselaer's branch, and of these, five were of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer's family."<ref></ref> His maternal grandparents were the former Catharine Roeloffe Jans and merchant ]. His uncle, ], served as the ] from 1699 to 1700 and from 1721 to 1723.<ref name="Reynolds1911"/>
==Military==
Author; ] wrote of the van Rensselaers in ''Colonial New York'' - ...eighteen males, sixteen belonged to ]'s branch, and of these, five were of Kiliaen van Rensselaer's family. Some of Kiliaen's nephews are Brigadier General ], his brother ] founded ].


==Career==
Killian van Rensselaer named his eldest son after his own ] according to Dutch tradition. This younger; ], acting on orders from ] giving him at least two objectives:
Van Rensselaer was a gentleman farmer and landlord. Through inheritances and marriages, he received additional landholdings on the east side of the ].<ref name="KVRnysm"/>
*Hold the enemy at ] in order to facilitate the removal of cannon and armaments at ], to a place of safety.
*Assist ] with his retreat from the 1777 ]


===American Revolution===
After a series of retreats and advances by both the Patriots and the British, culminated into a ''no holds barred'' bombardment when
He was commissioned as a colonel in his brother's ], ] battalion on October 20, 1775, during the ].<ref name="Roberts1897">{{cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=James Arthur |last2=Office |first2=New York (State) Comptroller's |title=New York in the Revolution as Colony and State |date=1897 |publisher=Weed-Parsons Printing Company, printers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1JMLAAAAIAAJ |accessdate=18 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref> He was the representative for Rensselaerswyck on the ] as hostilities broke out in 1775.<ref name="KVRnysm">{{cite web |last1=Bielinski |first1=Stefan |title=Kiliaen Van Rensselaer |url=http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/vr/kvr5131.html |website=exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov |publisher=] |accessdate=18 May 2020}}</ref> Van Rensselaer was seriously wounded by a shot in the hip during the ] that forced him to discontinue further service. General ] paid the highest of compliments about his courage.<ref name="Reynolds1911">{{cite book |last1=Reynolds |first1=Cuyler |title=Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of Achievements of the People of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys in New York State, Included Within the Present Counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Washington, Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Schenectady, Columbia and Greene |date=1911 |publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b4k-AAAAYAAJ |accessdate=18 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
] and his British troops pursued the ''Rebels of the Crown'' from ] up ] to a point North East of ]


==Personal life==
] and his men from ], during their retreat had met with van Rensselaer's troops They, assessed a numerical advantage over the British not only were they able to hold back the British after launching a decisive assault, spanning 2 hours of the late morning of July 8, 1777.
On January 1, 1742, he was married to Ariantje "Harriet" ] (1720–1763), a daughter of Nicolas Schuyler and Elsie (née Wendell) Schuyler and granddaughter of ] (grandfather of General and ] ] and Mayor ]). Her uncle was Albany mayor ] and her first cousin was ]<ref name="Reynolds1911"/> Together, they lived on the east side of Rensselaerswyck, overlooking Papsknee Island, and were the parents of nine children, including:<ref name="Reynolds1911"/>
Nearly all munitions from both Patriots and British alike, exhausted on their opposing forces. The British were so overwhelmed, when the battle ended, the British were left little choice - but to retreat and abandon several of their wounded on the field to be taken prisoner, not knowing supplies were also running low for the ].
The Colonial Rebels took retreat in the ] style ] to mend the wounds of two men, and tend to two others who gave the '''ultimate sacrifice''' - and


* ] (1744–1816),<ref name="HKVRnewnetherlandinstitute">{{cite web |title=Henry Killian Van Rensselaer |url=https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/henry-killian-van-rensselaer |website=www.newnetherlandinstitute.org |publisher=] |accessdate=18 May 2020}}</ref> a general in the Revolution who married Alida Bradt, a daughter Hendrick Bradt and Rebecca Van Vechten.<ref name="Munsell">{{cite book|last1=Munsell|first1=Joel|title=Collections on the History of Albany: From Its Discovery to the Present Time; with Notices of Its Public Institutions, and Biographical Sketches of Citizens Deceased|date=1871|publisher=J. Munsell|location=]|page=184e|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ydgRAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA183-IA6}}</ref>
Their stay was not long. They were looking forward to a 14 mile - 7 hour journey, munitions were nearly depleted, rain was on its way and food was in short supply. The more serious of the wounded was Kiliaen van Rensselaer, taking a shot to the hip. AS they left they were determined in preventing the British from making use Fort Anne, it was set ablaze.
* ] (1747–1798), a colonel in the Revolution who married Maria Sanders (1749–1830), daughter of Robert Sanders and granddaughter of ], in 1768.
* Nicholas Van Rensselaer (1754-1848), a Colonel and '']'' under General ],<ref>{{Cite journal | url = https://archive.org/details/cincinnatiqueen03compgoog | page = | title = Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788–1912 | publisher = S. J. Clarke Publishing Company | last1 = Clarke Publishing Company | first1 = S.J | last2 = Clarke | first2 = S. J. | year = 1912}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=3&p=surnames.van-20-rensellar |title=Van Rensselaer/Klinck – New York |publisher=Ancestry.co.uk |accessdate=December 28, 2012}}</ref><ref name="schenectadyhistory">{{cite web |url=http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/vanrensselaer-1.html |title=Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Van Rensselaer |work=Schenectady Digital History Archive |year=2009 |publisher=Schenectady County Public Library |accessdate=December 28, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=D-cCeOEXGyoC&pg=RA1-PA273 | title = 10,000 Famous Freemasons V3, K to P | isbn = 9781417975792 | last1 = Denslow | first1 = William R | last2 = Truman | first2 = Harry S | date = 2004-09-30}}</ref> who married Elsie Van Buren (1759–1844), a daughter of Cornelis Van Buren, in 1780.<ref name="Waite">{{cite book |last1=Waite |first1=H. C. |last2=Peckham |first2=Buren |title=History of Cornelis Maessen Van Buren |isbn=978-5-87839-437-6 |page=346 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vjIRAwAAQBAJ&dq=Elsie+Van+Buren+Van+Rensselaer&pg=PA346 |accessdate=18 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* Catharine Van Rensselaer (d. 1778), who married ] in 1771.<ref name="Greene1919">{{cite book |last1=Greene |first1=Richard Henry |last2=Stiles |first2=Henry Reed |last3=Dwight |first3=Melatiah Everett |last4=Morrison |first4=George Austin |last5=Mott |first5=Hopper Striker |last6=Totten |first6=John Reynolds |last7=Pitman |first7=Harold Minot |last8=Ditmas |first8=Charles Andrew |last9=Forest |first9=Louis Effingham De |last10=Mann |first10=Conklin |last11=Maynard |first11=Arthur S. |title=The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record |date=1919 |publisher=] |page=154 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YdgUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA154 |accessdate=18 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* Elsie Van Rensselaer (1758–1796), who married Abraham Lansing (1752–1822) in 1774.<ref name="Reynolds1911"/>
* Maria Van Rensselaer (1760–1841),<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bielinski |first1=Stefan |title=Maria Van Rensselaer Gansevoort |url=https://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov//albany/bios/vr/mavr5100.html |website=exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov |publisher=] |accessdate=18 May 2020}}</ref> who married Leonard Gansevoort Jr. (1754–1834) (a first cousin of ] ]) in 1777.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bielinski |first1=Stefan |title=Leonard Gansevoort, Jr. |url=https://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov//albany/bios/g/leogans4667.html |website=exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov |publisher=] |accessdate=18 May 2020}}</ref>
* ] (1763–1845), ] who married Margaret Sanders (1764–1830), a daughter of John Sanders and cousin to Philip's wife, in 1791.<ref name="Reynolds1911"/>


His wife died October 17, 1763, four months after the birth of their last child. On September 18, 1769,<ref name="Weed1860">{{cite book |last1=York (State) |first1=New |title=Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784 |date=1860 |publisher=Weed, Parsons |page=425 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1fITOcnHZgC&pg=PA425 |accessdate=18 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref> he remarried to Maria Low of John Low of ].<ref name="Americana1920">{{cite journal |title=VAN RENSSELAER AND ALLIED FAMILIES |journal=Americana, American Historical Magazine |date=1920 |page=283 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQM7AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA283 |accessdate=18 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Her father died in 1774 and Van Rensselaer was one of the executors of his estate.<ref name="Fernow1999">{{cite book |last1=Fernow |first1=Berthold |title=New York Calendar of Wills: On File and Recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, of the County Clerk at Albany, and of the Secretary of State, 1626 - 1836 |date=1999 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com |isbn=978-0-8063-0110-5 |page=637 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wd-LTleLtO8C&pg=PA637 |accessdate=18 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
===Writing on a Roster===
Possibly written by Captain Gray, Titled: The ] of Foot, in the service of the United States, commanded by ],<ref>http://www.newyorkhistoryblog.com/2012/04/john-warren-why-fort-anns-battle-hill.html</ref> ], June 28, 1777.


Van Rensselaer died on December 28, 1781.<ref name="Hillhouse1924">{{cite book |last1=Hillhouse |first1=Margaret Prouty |title=Historical and Genealogical Collections Relating to the Descendants of Rev. James Hillhouse |date=1924 |publisher=T. A. Wright |page=319 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BN4YAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA319 |accessdate=18 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*:Sunday, 6th July 1777, - Retreated from Sheensboro' & lost all my money, Baggage, &c. Lodged in the woods at Night.;
*:Monday, 7th, - Got into Fort Ann at 6 in ye morning; everything in the utmost confusion; nothing to eat.;
*:At 11 o'clock A.M. was ordered to take the Command of a party upon a scout and marched with 150 men besides 17 Rangers; had not marched from Garrison into the woods more than half a mile, after detaching my front, Rear and flanking Guards, when we met with a party of Regulars and gave them fire, which was Returned by the enemy, who then gave back. I then pursued them with close fire till they betook themselves to the top of a mountain. At the foot of this mountain we posted our selves and continued our fire until 6 P.M., when a reinforcement of 150 more joined me; but night approaching obliged me to return with my party to Garrison, after finding one of my party killed and 3 wounded, and three of the enemy killed by our first fire.

*:Tuesday Morning, 8th, - Myself, with Capt. Hutchins, with the same number of men, marched to the aforesaid mountain and attacked the enemy very warmly. The engagement lasted about 2 hours, at which time the Commander of yo Garrison sent Colo. Ransleur with a small party of militia to reinforce us. We then advanced (firing) up the hill, where we found the enemy's surgeon dressing a Capts Leg. Those, with two of their wounded soldiers, we took and sent in, and a number of our own people, men & women, who were the day before cut off by the enemy, we retook.
:At last, finding out ammunition gone and none to be had in Garrison, ordered off my wounded and some of the dead, and formed a retreat. Much fatigued when I returned and found no refreshments, neither meat or drink; immediately a Council was called and the prisoners who were retaken brot upon examination, who gave information that an express just arrived before we made this second attack and gave the enemy intelligence that a reinforcement of 2000, with Indians, were near at hand to join them, at which time they were to make a general attack upon us.
:It was then determined upon to retreat to fort Edward, after setting fire the Garrison. Accordingly, the wounded were sent off, except one, who was one of my own Company; him the Surgeon thot proper not to order off, that he would soon expire, or that if he was likely to live, the enemy, when they took possession, would take care of him. This I knew not of till we were ordered to march, at which time I turned back alone (my Company being gone) to the rear of the Army, where I found him. I then picked up a tent & fastened it between two poles, laid him upon it, and hired four soldiers to carry him. I took their four guns with my own and carried them to fort Edward; this was about 3 o'clock P.M.; rained very hard; distance from fort Ann to Fort Edward, 14 miles; arrived at Fort Edward at 10 in the Evening; no Barracks nor Tents to go into; therefore laid down in the rain and slept upon the ground; the fatigue of this day I believe I shall always remember.
:|Colo Ransleur, wounded; Capt Weare, wounded; , killed; , a sergeant in my company, killed. Our loss in the two skirmishes about 15; the Enemy's unknown.

==Death==
So seriously wounded in battle by a shot in the hip, Killiaen Van Rensselaer was forced to discontinue further service. ] paid the highest of compliments about his courage.<ref>http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/vanrensselaer-1.html</ref>

Thirty years had passed until his death, when the calcified ball that agonized his thigh for the remainder of his life, was extracted from Kiliaen van Rensselaer's hip by the coroner, its description: ''was flattened to about 1-inch 'round.'' The van Rensselaer family kept that ball and handed it down through some generations, though possibly it is in the care of a museum at the present day.


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American soldier and politician (1717–1781)
Kiliaen van Rensselaer
Born(1717-12-27)December 27, 1717
East Greenbush, Province of New York, British America
DiedDecember 28, 1781(1781-12-28) (aged 64)
Albany, New York, US
Spouses
Harriet Schuyler
​ ​(m. 1742; died 1763)​
Maria Low
​ ​(m. 1769)​
Parent(s)Hendrick van Rensselaer
Catharina Van Brugh
RelativesJohannes Pieterse Van Brugh (grandfather)
Solomon Van Rensselaer (grandson)

Colonel Kiliaen van Rensselaer (December 27, 1717 – December 28, 1781) was a colonial American soldier and politician who was a member of the prominent Van Rensselaer family.

Early life

Kiliaen was born on December 27, 1717, around Albany in the Province of New York. He was the youngest of eleven children born to Hendrick van Rensselaer of Fort Crailo by Catharina (née Van Brugh) Van Rensselaer. Among his older siblings were Johannes Van Rensselaer. His father was director of the Eastern patent of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck which covered roughly 62,000 acres of land in what is now Columbia County.

His paternal grandparents were Maria van Cortlandt van Rensselaer (sister of New York City mayors Stephanus and Jacobus Van Cortlandt) and Jeremias van Rensselaer, the acting Patroon of Rensselaerswyck from 1658 to 1674 (who was a son of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, one of the founders and directors of the Dutch West India Company). Among his nephews were Brig. Gen. Robert Van Rensselaer. In describing the Van Rensselaer family, historian author William L. Stone stated: "They consisted of eighteen males in 1776. During the war every adult, except two old men, and all minors, except four boys, bore arms in one or more battles during the Revolutionary struggle." George W. Schuyler later wrote in his Colonial New York, "... of the eighteen males, sixteen belonged to Hendrick Van Rensselaer's branch, and of these, five were of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer's family." His maternal grandparents were the former Catharine Roeloffe Jans and merchant Johannes Pieterse Van Brugh. His uncle, Pieter Van Brugh, served as the mayor of Albany from 1699 to 1700 and from 1721 to 1723.

Career

Van Rensselaer was a gentleman farmer and landlord. Through inheritances and marriages, he received additional landholdings on the east side of the Hudson River.

American Revolution

He was commissioned as a colonel in his brother's 4th Regiment, Albany County Militia, Rensselaerswyck battalion on October 20, 1775, during the American Revolution. He was the representative for Rensselaerswyck on the Committee of Correspondence as hostilities broke out in 1775. Van Rensselaer was seriously wounded by a shot in the hip during the Battles of Saratoga that forced him to discontinue further service. General George Washington paid the highest of compliments about his courage.

Personal life

On January 1, 1742, he was married to Ariantje "Harriet" Schuyler (1720–1763), a daughter of Nicolas Schuyler and Elsie (née Wendell) Schuyler and granddaughter of Philip Pieterse Schuyler (grandfather of General and U.S. Senator Philip Schuyler and Mayor Abraham Cuyler). Her uncle was Albany mayor Johannes Schuyler and her first cousin was Johannes Schuyler Jr. Together, they lived on the east side of Rensselaerswyck, overlooking Papsknee Island, and were the parents of nine children, including:

His wife died October 17, 1763, four months after the birth of their last child. On September 18, 1769, he remarried to Maria Low of John Low of Newark, New Jersey. Her father died in 1774 and Van Rensselaer was one of the executors of his estate.

Van Rensselaer died on December 28, 1781.

References

  1. Bielinski, Stefan. "Catharina Van Brugh Van Rensselaer". exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov. New York State Museum. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  2. ^ Reynolds, Cuyler (1911). Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of Achievements of the People of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys in New York State, Included Within the Present Counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Washington, Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Schenectady, Columbia and Greene. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  3. Schenectady History
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  5. Roberts, James Arthur; Office, New York (State) Comptroller's (1897). New York in the Revolution as Colony and State. Weed-Parsons Printing Company, printers. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  6. "Henry Killian Van Rensselaer". www.newnetherlandinstitute.org. New Netherland Institute. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  7. Munsell, Joel (1871). Collections on the History of Albany: From Its Discovery to the Present Time; with Notices of Its Public Institutions, and Biographical Sketches of Citizens Deceased. Albany, NY: J. Munsell. p. 184e.
  8. Clarke Publishing Company, S.J; Clarke, S. J. (1912). "Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788–1912". S. J. Clarke Publishing Company: 567. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. "Van Rensselaer/Klinck – New York". Ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
  10. "Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Van Rensselaer". Schenectady Digital History Archive. Schenectady County Public Library. 2009. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
  11. Denslow, William R; Truman, Harry S (2004-09-30). 10,000 Famous Freemasons V3, K to P. ISBN 9781417975792.
  12. Waite, H. C.; Peckham, Buren. History of Cornelis Maessen Van Buren. p. 346. ISBN 978-5-87839-437-6. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  13. Greene, Richard Henry; Stiles, Henry Reed; Dwight, Melatiah Everett; Morrison, George Austin; Mott, Hopper Striker; Totten, John Reynolds; Pitman, Harold Minot; Ditmas, Charles Andrew; Forest, Louis Effingham De; Mann, Conklin; Maynard, Arthur S. (1919). The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. p. 154. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  14. Bielinski, Stefan. "Maria Van Rensselaer Gansevoort". exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov. New York State Museum. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  15. Bielinski, Stefan. "Leonard Gansevoort, Jr". exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov. New York State Museum. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  16. York (State), New (1860). Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784. Weed, Parsons. p. 425. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  17. "VAN RENSSELAER AND ALLIED FAMILIES". Americana, American Historical Magazine: 283. 1920. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  18. Fernow, Berthold (1999). New York Calendar of Wills: On File and Recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, of the County Clerk at Albany, and of the Secretary of State, 1626 - 1836. Genealogical Publishing Com. p. 637. ISBN 978-0-8063-0110-5. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  19. Hillhouse, Margaret Prouty (1924). Historical and Genealogical Collections Relating to the Descendants of Rev. James Hillhouse. T. A. Wright. p. 319. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
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