Stephen Van Rensselaer
BIRTH
Nov 1, 1764
Manhattan, New York
DEATH
January 26, 1839
Manhattan, New York
FAMILY
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Rensselaer, Stephen Van
(1764-1839)
Stephen Van Rensselaer (1764-1839) was a public official and military officer and the spouse of Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer. Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer was a social hostess whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Stephen Van Rensselaer to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. The recorded birthplace at Manhattan, New York helps place this family connection within the geography of the Revolutionary Atlantic world. Including Stephen Van Rensselaer in HistoryGPS records the family, professional, and social networks that connected individuals to the wider Revolutionary generation.
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WIFE
Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer
(1758-1801)
William Paterson Van Rensselaer
(1805-1872)
Henry Bell Van Rensselaer
(1810-1864)
Philip Stephen Van Rensselaer
(1806-1871)
Alexander Van Rensselaer
(1850-1933)
Cortlandt Van Rensselaer
(1808-1860)
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DIED:
Manhattan, New York
Jan 26, 1839
Stephen Van Rensselaer was born on Nov 1, 1764 in Manhattan, New York. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Stephen Van Rensselaer with work or public activity as a soldier, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Stephen Van Rensselaer died on Jan 26, 1839 in Manhattan, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.