Category:Van Rensselaer family

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van Rensselaer
Rensselaer family COA.svg
Ethnicity Dutch
Current region United States East Coast
Estate Manor of Rensselaerswyck

An influential family of patroons in New York from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries; compare to the Livingston family and Schuyler family. Edith Wharton, who was a cousin, portrays them in her novel The Age of Innocence as the Van der Luydens.