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MoneminsCastle
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 Posted - May 24 2009 : 10:52:11 AM
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If you've read the Fort Orange thread you will see that the Dutch armed the Mohawks with muskets. Then they instigated a conflict between the Mohawks and the Mahicans. Once the Mahicans were driven from the shores of the Hudson, it was time to swindle them from their land.
Enter Kiliaen van Rensselaer, a Dutch diamond dealer who was the primary investor in the Dutch West India Company. He was awarded over 700,000 acres of Mahican land by the company.
Contract of of sale of land along the Hudson River from the Mahican Indians to Kiliean Van Rensselaer, 6 August 1630
http://purl.org/net/nysl/nysdocs/NY1937386
This document is an original copy of the land title that established the Colony of Rensselaerwyck, within the province of New Netherland. It relates to the patroonship plan of colonization under the auspices of the West India Company, that allowed an investor, called a patroon (lord of manor) to negotiate with natives for a tract upon which he was obligated to settle 50 colonists at his own expense. The patroon was granted complete jurisdictional rights and could hold the land in perpetual fief of inheritance with the right to dispose of colony by last will and testament. Kiliaen van Rensselaer, thus became the first patroon of Rensselaerwyck that would continue to exist under his heirs well into the 19th Century. The lands in the conveyance comprised much of present Albany and Rensselaer counties of New York State. Peter Minuit, Director General of New Netherland signed this document along with others on the governing council.
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MoneminsCastle
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Posted - May 24 2009 : 10:55:06 AM
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rensselaerswyck is the name of a colonial estate (specifically, a Dutch-American patroonship owned by the Van Rensselaer family) that was located in what is now New York, USA. The estate was originally deeded by the Dutch West India Company in 1630 to Kiliaen van Rensselaer a Dutch merchant and the company's primary investor. Rensselaerwyck lay on both sides of the Hudson River near present-day Albany, New York and included parts of the present New York counties of Albany, Columbia, Greene, and Rensselaer, and it extended as far east as Pownal, Vermont.
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MoneminsCastle
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Posted - May 24 2009 : 11:14:56 AM
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Kiliaen van Rensselaer (c. 1585 – 7 October 1643 (buried)), was a Dutch merchant who was heavily involved in the Colonial American trade market.
He was born near Hasselt (Overijssel), the son of Hendrick van Rensselaer and Maria Pafraet, both from Amsterdam. His father was a captain who died in January 1602 during the Siege of Ostend. Kiliaen married Hillegonda van Bijler (1598-1626) in 1616 and Anna van Wely (1601-1670) in 1627, both times in Amsterdam, where he died.
He was originally a diamond and pearl merchant, and became the director and one of the founders and major investors in the Dutch West India Company, founded in 1621. In return for his investment, Van Rensselaer acquired land in the New Netherland Colony of America as the first American patroon in 1630.
Rensselaerwyck was the largest and only successful patroonship in the colony. Van Rensselaer never visited his holdings himself, but rather sent his cousin, Arent van Curler, to act as commissary-general (or superintendent). Van Rensselaer's second son of his second marriage, Jeremias van Rensselaer, did come to the New World and settled in Rensselaerswyck, and the prominent New York State family ultimately descends from him.
Rensselaerswyck covered most of modern-day Albany and Rensselaer Counties, and parts of modern-day Columbia and Greene Counties in New York State.
Both Rensselaer County and the City of Rensselaer are named after Van Rensselaer.
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MoneminsCastle
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Posted - May 24 2009 : 11:24:45 AM
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It's almost impossible to fathom how much money the van Rensselaer's made from stealing the Mahican homeland. I read somewhere that Kiliaen van Rensselaer's personal wealth was over $65 million in the mid-17th century.
Steven van Rensselaer III (1764-1839) was *listed as one of the 75 wealthiest persons in human history at $88.8 billion from ownership of Rensselaerwyck.
*Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers
List of the 75 richest people in human history
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore de Balzac
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