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Identifier: magazineofamericv11stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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ing to be photographed, in a recent visit to Amersfoort,Nykerk, and other towns in Guildersland, writes: There was scarcely achurch that I visited in Guildersland that did not have, somewhere, the VanRensselaer arms on the tombstones, either alone or quartered with others.The original manor of the family from which the Van Rensselaers tooktheir name is still called Rensselaer, and is about three miles south-eastof Nykerk. It was originally a Reddergoed, the possession of which con-ferred nobility. Two other Van Rensselaers are^named in the lists ofRegents of the Orphan Asylum (of which Jan Van Rensselaer was one ofthe founders), Richard in 1753, and Jeremias in 1803. The guardiansof the young patroon, who were also the executors of Van Rensselaersestate, selected Herr Brandt Arent Van Slechtenhorst, the scion of a veryancient Holland family, to manage the affairs of Rensselaerswyck, and hewas soon at his post. He was not a mild man in any sense of the term. THE VAN RENSSELAER MANOR 15
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PORTRAITS OF THE FOUNDERS AND REGENTS OF THE ORPHAN ASYLUM T^S) AT NYKERK, GELDERSLAND, HOLLAND. (Engraved by permission) from a photograpJi 0/ the painting by Brceckner, in 1645.) On the contrary, he was bold, resolute, active, swift in decision, immovablein his opinions, and inclined to be captious as well as caustic. His energieswere focused to the exceedingly precise point of undeviating loyalty to the 16 THE VAN RENSSELAER MANOR patroon, and of resisting all pretensions of the companys officers to supremerulership in New Netherland, having been forewarned of their probableaction before he left Holland. He looked like an athlete. He was tall, ofalmost gigantic proportions, with a round, levelhead on broad square shoul-ders, nerve and confidence in every line of his strong florid face and everymovement of his well-knit frame. In the elements of leadership and in willpower he was not inferior to Stuyvesant, and the two remarkable menwere presently in a sharp conflict. The governor s

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