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Personal data Maj. Gen Stephen van Rensselaer 

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Household of Maj. Gen Stephen van Rensselaer

(1) He is married to Cornelia Bell Patterson.

They got married May 17 1802AD at New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, he was 37 years old.

They got married on May 17, 1802 at New Brunswick, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States, he was 37 years old.


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(2) He is married to Margaret Schuyler.

They got married on June 6, 1783 at Reformed Dutch Church, Albany, New York, United States, he was 18 years old.


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  2. Stephan van Rensselaer  1786-± 1787
  3. Stephen van Rensselaer  1789-1868 

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    3. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

    Historical events

    Birthday November 1, 1764

    • The temperature on November 1, 1764 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
    • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1764: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
      • January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
      • February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
      • September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

    Day of marriage June 6, 1783

    • The temperature on June 6, 1783 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
    • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1783: Source: Wikipedia
      • February 3 » Spain–United States relations are first established.
      • March 15 » In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
      • April 15 » Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
      • August 18 » A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
      • November 25 » American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
      • December 23 » George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.

    Day of death January 26, 1839

    • The temperature on January 26, 1839 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt bui hagel. Source: KNMI
    •  This page is only available in Dutch.
      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
    • In the year 1839: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
      • March 26 » The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
      • June 22 » Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
      • November 4 » Newport Rising: The last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
      • November 11 » The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
      • November 17 » Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy.
      • November 27 » In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
    

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