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Nicholas van Rensselaer (minister)
Nicholas van Rensselaer (born in Amsterdam in September 1636; died in Albany, New York, in November 1678) was a Reformed Dutch Church clergyman, and one time director of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck.
==Biography==
He was the fourth son of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the first patroon of Rensselaerswyck. He was liberally educated in Holland, and studied theology there. His studies were temporarily interrupted when the family sent him to apprentice with a spice merchant. In December 1657 he was with a cloth dealer, but returned to his studies six months later.〔(van der Waal, Ernestine G.E., "Prophecy and profit: Nicolaes van Rensselaer, Charles II and the conversion of the Jews", University of Leiden )〕 In Brussels he met Charles II of England, who was then in exile. Claiming to have had a premonition, Van Rensselaer predicted that Charles would be restored to the throne. Van Rensselaer's family thought him half mad. He subsequently went to England as chaplain to the Dutch embassy, and the king, recognizing him and recollecting his prediction, gave him a gold snuff box with his likeness in the lid. Van Rensselaer was appointed chaplain to the Dutch ambassador.〔(Bielinski, Stefan. "Nicholas Van Rensselaer", New York State Museum )〕 After the Dutch ambassador left Great Britain, Van Rensselaer was licensed by Charles to preach to the Dutch congregation at Westminster, was ordained a deacon in the English church, and appointed lecturer at St. Margaret's, Lothbury.
When Edmund Andros was commissioned governor of the New Netherland, in 1674, Van Rensselaer accompanied him to North America,〔 bearing a letter of recommendation from the Duke of York, in which he requested that Van Rensselaer be placed in charge of one of the Dutch churches in New York or Albany when there should be a vacancy.
When Jeremias died in October 1674, the new patroon, Kiliaen (son of Johannes) was a minor, residing in Holland. Nicholas was made director of Rensselaerwyck.〔 (Hauck-Whealton, Joshua. "Nicholas the Prophet", Clermont State Historic Site, October 6, 2009 )〕 The Holland Rensselaer's hoped that their brother's connection with the British Royal Family would help secure the patent for the Rensselaerwyck holdings. Nonetheless this appointment caused some consternation among their American counterparts.〔 The widow of Jeremias, Maria van Cortland van Rensselaer, became treasurer, and her brother, Stephanus Van Cortlandt, bookkeeper. In 1675, at age thirty-nine, he married nineteen-year-old Alida Schuyler, daughter of Philip Pieterse Schuyler.〔 They had no children.
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