Settlers of Rensselaerswyck 1630-1658. Excerpted from the Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts with Index to Biographical Notes

This work consists of brief notices of the first settlers of the colony of Rensselaerswyck (in the neighborhood of Albany New York then New Netherland). A paragraph varying in length from a few sentences to half a page is devoted to each settler giving a concise record of his arrival in the colony and his occupation together with other essential data such as names of wife and children dates of marriage and death and references to land grants leases agreements etc. This information is based on ledger accounts court proceedings resolutions of the Commissioners of the Colony deeds contracts powers of attorney and the account books of Jeremias van Rensselaer.Settlers of Rensselaerswyck is excepted and reprinted from The Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts pages 805-846 first published in 1908.