Rensselaerwyck

Rensselaerswyck is the name of a colonial estate (specifically, a Dutch-American patroonship owned by the Van Rensselaer family) that was located in what is now New York, USA. The estate was originally deeded by the Dutch West India Company in 1630 to Kiliaen van Rensselaer a Dutch merchant and the company's primary investor. Rensselaerwyck lay on both sides of the Hudson River near present-day Albany, New York and included parts of the present New York counties of Albany, Columbia, Greene, and Rensselaer, and it extended as far east as Pownal, Vermont.

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Hudson Valley portal

New Netherland series
Colonies:
New Amsterdam New Haarlem Noortwyck Beverwyck Wiltwyck Bergen Pavonia Vriessendael Achter Col Vlissingen Middelburgh	Heemstede Rustdorp Gravesende Breuckelen New Amersfoort Midwout New Utrecht Boswyck Swaanendael New Amstel Altena
Fortresses:
Fort Amsterdam Fort Nassau (North) Fort Orange Fort Nassau (South) Fort Goede Hoop	Fort Casimir Fort Altena Fort Wilhelmus Fort Beversreede Fort Nya Korsholm
The Patroon System Rensselaerwyck Colen Donck (Yonkers, New York)
Directors-General of New Netherland: Cornelius Jacobsen Mey (1620-1625) Willem Verhulst (1625-26) Peter Minuit (1626-33) Wouter van Twiller (1633-38) Willem Kieft (1638-47) Peter Stuyvesant (1647-64)
Influential people Adriaen van der Donck Kiliaen van Rensselaer Brant van Slichtenhorst Cornelis van Tienhoven
Councils Council of twelve men Council of eight men

Morison, Samuel Eliot (1972). "From the Hudson to the James 1626-1675: 1. New Netherland and New York". The Oxford History of the American People: Prehistory to 1789. New York: New American Library. pp.pp. 118-119.

Rensselaerswijck at the Virtual Tour of New Netherland, New Netherland Project of the New Netherland Institute
Rensselaerswyck at the Colonial Albany Social History Project of the New York State Museum