van Rensselaer | |
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Current region | United States East Coast |
Estate(s) | Manor of Rensselaerswyck |
The Van Rensselaer family was 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.