Van Rensselaer

[ van ren-suh-leer, ren-suh-ler; for 1 also Dutch vahn ren-suh-lahr ]

noun

Ki·li·aen [kee-lee-ahn], /ˈki liˌɑn/, 1595–1644, Dutch merchant: founder of Dutch West India Company 1621; large landowner in America, colonizing along the Hudson River (ancestor of Stephen Van Rensselaer).
Stephen "the Patroon", 1765–1839, U.S. political leader and major general.

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"Sometimes it's best to refuse him, and get it over once for all," said Baby Van Rensselaer, impersonally.
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Mr. Van Rensselaer has greatly enhanced the usefulness of Writing as a Business by the addition of very complete bibliographies.
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Colonel Van Rensselaer directed the storming of the British battery upon the heights.
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Enough has been told about Mr. Robert Van Rensselaer's early period to indicate how those pleasant days were passed.
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When Van Rensselaer ceased pacing the room, he went to the table and wrote an order closing the mills.
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