Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
Mariana Alley Griswold Van Rensselaer( February 21, 1851 – January 20, 1934), usually known as Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer or M. G. Van Rensselaer, was an American author focusing on architectural criticism.
Stephen Van Rensselaer
Stephen Van Rensselaer III( November 1, 1764 January 26, 1839) was a New York landowner, businessman, militia officer, and politician.
A graduate of Harvard University, at age 21, Van Rensselaer took control of Rensselaerswyck, his family's manor.
He developed the land by encouraging tenants to settle it, and granting them perpetual leases at moderate rates, which enabled the tenants to use more of their capital to make their farms and businesses productive.
Active in politics as a Federalist, Van Rensselaer served in the New York State Assembly and New York State Senate, and as Lieutenant Governor of New York.
After the demise of the Federalist Party, Van Rensselaer was a John Quincy Adams supporter, and served in the United States House of Representatives for one partial term and three full ones.
Van Rensselaer was a supporter of higher education; he served on the board of trustees for several schools and colleges, and was the founder of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
He was also a civic activist and philanthropist, and was a founder of Albany's public library and the city's Institute of History& Arts.
Long active in the militia, Van Rensselaer attained the rank of major general; he commanded troops on the New York- Canada border during the War of 1812, but resigned his commission after defeat at the Battle of Queenston Heights.
After Van Rensselaer's 1839 death, efforts by his sons to collect past due lease payments led to the Anti-Rent War, and the break up and sale of the manor.
As the heir to and then owner of one of the largest estates in New York, Van Rensselaer's holdings made him the tenth richest American of all time, based on the ratio of his fortune to contemporary GDP.
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (businessman)
Kiliaen Drackett Van Rensselaer( born) is an American business executive and philanthropist.
Van Rensselaer is the founder and CEO of Insurrection Media.
Kiliaen van Rensselaer (merchant)
Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1586 – buried 7 October 1643) was a Dutch diamond and pearl merchant from Amsterdam who was one of the founders and directors of the Dutch West India Company, being instrumental in the establishment of New Netherland.
He was one of the first patroons, but the only one to become successful.
He founded the Manor of Rensselaerswyck in what is now mainly New York's Capital District.
His estate remained throughout the Dutch and British colonial era and the American Revolution as a legal entity until the 1840s.
Eventually, that came to an end during the Anti-Rent War.
Van Rensselaer was the son of Hendrick Kiliaensz van Rensselaer, a soldier from Nijkerk in the "States army of the duke of Upper Saxony", and Maria Pafraet, descendant of a well-known printers' dynasty.
To keep from risking his life in the army like his father, he apprenticed under his uncle, a successful Amsterdam jeweler.
He too became a successful jeweler and was one of the first subscribers to the Dutch West India Company upon its conception.
The concept of patroonships may have been Kiliaen van Rensselaer's; he
was likely the leading proponent of the Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions, the document that established the patroon system.
His patroonship became the most successful to exist, making full use of his business tactics and advantages, such as his connection to the Director of New Netherland, his confidantes at the West India Company, and his extended family members who were eager to emigrate to a better place to farm.
Van Rensselaer married twice and had at least eleven children.
When he died sometime after 1642, two succeeded him as patroons of Rensselaerswyck.
Van Rensselaer had a marked effect on the history of the United States.
The American Van Rensselaers all descend from Kiliaen's son Jeremias and the subsequent Van Rensselaer family is noted for being a very powerful and wealthy influence in the history of New York and the Northeastern United States, producing multiple State Legislators, Congressmen, and two Lieutenant Governors in New York.
Jeremias Van Rensselaer (sixth patroon)
Jeremias van Rensselaer( March 18, 1705 – 1745) was the eldest son of Kiliaen van Rensselaer and Maria van Cortlandt.
Stephen van Rensselaer II
Stephen van Rensselaer II( June 2, 1742 – October 19, 1769) was the six and youngest child of Stephen van Rensselaer I and Elizabeth Groesbeck.
Johan van Rensselaer
Johan van Rensselaer also
Johannes van Rensselaer (Amsterdam, 4 September 1625 – Nijkerk , 6 May 1663), second patroon of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, was the eldest son of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, and his only son by his first wife, Hillegonda van Bylaer.
Johan van Scheepen
Johan van Scheepen is a Dutch botanist.
Johannes Van Rensselaer
Johannes Van Rensselaer( January 3, 1708 – February 21, 1783) was a member of the prominent colonial Van Rensselaer family.
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (fifth patroon)
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer( August 24, 1663 – 1719), the eldest child of Jeremias and Maria van Cortlandt Van Rensselaer was born in Rensselaerwyck.

Question: What nationality is Johan Van Rensselaer's father?
Answer: Dutch