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http://www.guttenberg737.org/docs/Albany%20Temple%20NY%20Times%20Article%201895.pdf The Van Renssalaer Family Among some of this distinguished family who were members of the Craft in New York are noted the following: Van Rensselaer Henry Kilian Masters’ 2 NY Militia Col. Van Rensselaer James Union 1 Gen. Schuyler Aide-de-Camp d. 1827 Van Rensselaer Jeremiah Masters’ 2 1st Regt Paymaster d. 2/1810 Van Rensselaer John Masters’ 2 NY Militia Lt. Col. Van Rensselaer Nicholas J. Masters’ 2 1st NY Regt Capt (d. 29 Mar 1848) 6
Van Rensselaer, Henry Kilian, Masters', 2; Gen. Henry Killian Van Rensselaer was born near Albany, 1744. He commanded a regiment during the Revolution and was wounded at the capture of General Burgoyne. Wounded also at Fort Ann, July, 1777. After the Revolution was appointed Brigadier-General of Militia. Died at Greenbush, 1816. Van Rensselaer, James Union, 1 Captain in First New York line Regiment. Van Rensselaer, John, Union, 1; Masters’ 2; Lieutenant-Colonel, Fourteenth Regiment. Van Rensselaer, Nicholas J.; Masters’ 2’ Captain, 1st NY; d. 29 Mar 1848. http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/10,000_famous_freemasons/Volume_4_Q_to_Z.htm Henry Killian Van Rensselaer (1744-1816) Militia General in Revolutionary War. b. near Albany, N.Y. He commanded a N.Y. regiment during the Revolution. Was wounded at the capture of Gen. Burgoyne, and carried the ball in his body for 35 years. In July 1777 he was attacked by a large force near Fort Ann, and made a brave resistance, but, learning of the abandonment of Fort Ticonderoga, withdrew after receiving another severe wound. He was subsequently a general of militia. He was the father of Solomon, and brother of Nicholas and Killian K., qq.v. He was also kin of Philip S., Jeremiah, and Stephen, qq.v. He was a member of Masters' Lodge No. 2, Albany, N.Y., and member of the Albany Lodge of Perfection, AASR. d. Sept. 9, 1816. Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (called Henry K.), son of Kiliaen and Harriet (Schuyler) Van Rensselaer, was born July 28, 1744, died 1816. He was commissioned lieutenant-colonel and colonel in the revolution, 1764; married (first) Alida Bratt; (second) in 1796, Nancy G. Simmons. He “defended Fort Ann with an unequal force with great bravery and obstinacy, in support of the retreat of our troops from Ticonderoga, July, 1777;” was badly wounded at this time and made lame for life. His son was the noted Major-General Solomon Van Rensselaer, born at Greenbush, August 6, 1774, died April 23, 1852; who at the age of eighteen served as cornet in Wayne's expedition, was promoted to the command of a troop at the age of twenty, fought with much distinction throughout the war of 1812, and was appointed by Governor De Witt Clinton brevet major-general of New York militia. He married, January 17, 1797, his first cousin, Harriet Van Rensselaer, daughter of LieutenantColonel Philip Van Rensselaer and Maria Sanders; they resided at “Cherry Hill,” an estate below “The Flatts," which belonged to her (Harriet’s) mother. The daughter of General Solomon Van Rensselaer, named Harriet Maria, born February 22, 1816, died January 21, 1897, inherited "Cherry Hill" from her grandmother, Mrs. Philip Van Rensselaer. She married Peter Edward Elmendorf, December 26, 1838, and left a daughter, Harriet Van Rensselaer Elmendorf, born April 15, 1843, who married John Woolworth Gould, June 5, 1878. They reside in Newark, New Jersey; issue, one son, Edmund Westerlo Gould, born March 8, 1881, died February 20, 1907; married, April 15, 1903, Elizabeth L. Tripp; issue, one son, died in infancy, and Catherine Livingston Gould, born September 29, 1905. The below is an extract of an article upon the death of Gen. Solomon Van Renssealaer which gives a brief accout of his father Henry K. Van Renssealer. ----- April 26, 1852 © The New York Times Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (1741-1810) Member of the first congress of the United States, 1789-91 and lieutenant governor of New York, 1800-04. Graduate of Princeton in 1758. He actively supported the Revolution. Was a presidential elector in 1800. He was active in the promotion of the Inland Navigation Co., of which Philip Schuyler was the first president. In the Revolution he was an 7
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with the request of the Grand Lodge
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make the perilous trip on the “De
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Dr. Bigelow's great-great-grandfath
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Here the annual reunion of the Stat
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studies with Dr. Henry M. Paine, th
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war under his brother, Capt. Timoth
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county, and since then he has pract
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community-based organizations and a
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He was born in Sharon. CT, on the 5
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1881 Mr. Graves died and the name w
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cashier, which position he held unt
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many years he has been very active
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Personal Sketch of the Late A. B. H
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Albany Law School and admitted to t
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members of the Senate. He possesses
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