Cornelius van Rensselaer's 2nd wife
Rensselaer County record: d:May 25, 1888 may be error.
Mrs. Maria Louisa Van Rensselaer, widow of Cornelius Van Rensselaer, died at Green Bush, Rensselaer County, New York, on Friday, October 19th, 1888, after a brief illness, aged eighty-six years & two months. Her husband, Cornelius
Van Rensselaer, was a son of Col. Nicholas Van Rensselaer who fought on the American side at Quebec and at Saratoga, of which latter victory he brought the news to Albany. Mrs. Van Rensselaer was the third child of Edmond Charles Genet,
Ambassador from the first French Republic in 1793, known in American history as Citizen Genet, and of Cornelia Clinton, daughter of the American patriot George Clinton, who for twenty-four years was Governor of this State and died while Vice-President of the United States. Mrs. Van Rensselaer was baptized at Jamaica, Long Island, where she was born Augu .t 14th, 1802, by the Revd. Mr. Faitout by the name of Marie Louise Cardon Vanderquaille, but in an Act of the Legislature of this State to facilitate a division of the property of Governor George Clinton among his heirs she was named Marie Louisa Genet. As a child she was adopted by her grandfather, Governor Clinton, and was at his house at Casperskill on the Hudson with her aunt Maria Clinton, when a special messenger brought the news of the last illness of her grandfather at Washington. He was buried in the Congressional burying ground at Washington.
Rensselaer County record: d:May 25, 1888 may be error.
Mrs. Maria Louisa Van Rensselaer, widow of Cornelius Van Rensselaer, died at Green Bush, Rensselaer County, New York, on Friday, October 19th, 1888, after a brief illness, aged eighty-six years & two months. Her husband, Cornelius
Van Rensselaer, was a son of Col. Nicholas Van Rensselaer who fought on the American side at Quebec and at Saratoga, of which latter victory he brought the news to Albany. Mrs. Van Rensselaer was the third child of Edmond Charles Genet,
Ambassador from the first French Republic in 1793, known in American history as Citizen Genet, and of Cornelia Clinton, daughter of the American patriot George Clinton, who for twenty-four years was Governor of this State and died while Vice-President of the United States. Mrs. Van Rensselaer was baptized at Jamaica, Long Island, where she was born Augu .t 14th, 1802, by the Revd. Mr. Faitout by the name of Marie Louise Cardon Vanderquaille, but in an Act of the Legislature of this State to facilitate a division of the property of Governor George Clinton among his heirs she was named Marie Louisa Genet. As a child she was adopted by her grandfather, Governor Clinton, and was at his house at Casperskill on the Hudson with her aunt Maria Clinton, when a special messenger brought the news of the last illness of her grandfather at Washington. He was buried in the Congressional burying ground at Washington.
Cornelius van Rensselaer's 2nd wife
Rensselaer County record: d:May 25, 1888 may be error.
Mrs. Maria Louisa Van Rensselaer, widow of Cornelius Van Rensselaer, died at Green Bush, Rensselaer County, New York, on Friday, October 19th, 1888, after a brief illness, aged eighty-six years & two months. Her husband, Cornelius
Van Rensselaer, was a son of Col. Nicholas Van Rensselaer who fought on the American side at Quebec and at Saratoga, of which latter victory he brought the news to Albany. Mrs. Van Rensselaer was the third child of Edmond Charles Genet,
Ambassador from the first French Republic in 1793, known in American history as Citizen Genet, and of Cornelia Clinton, daughter of the American patriot George Clinton, who for twenty-four years was Governor of this State and died while Vice-President of the United States. Mrs. Van Rensselaer was baptized at Jamaica, Long Island, where she was born Augu .t 14th, 1802, by the Revd. Mr. Faitout by the name of Marie Louise Cardon Vanderquaille, but in an Act of the Legislature of this State to facilitate a division of the property of Governor George Clinton among his heirs she was named Marie Louisa Genet. As a child she was adopted by her grandfather, Governor Clinton, and was at his house at Casperskill on the Hudson with her aunt Maria Clinton, when a special messenger brought the news of the last illness of her grandfather at Washington. He was buried in the Congressional burying ground at Washington.
Rensselaer County record: d:May 25, 1888 may be error.
Mrs. Maria Louisa Van Rensselaer, widow of Cornelius Van Rensselaer, died at Green Bush, Rensselaer County, New York, on Friday, October 19th, 1888, after a brief illness, aged eighty-six years & two months. Her husband, Cornelius
Van Rensselaer, was a son of Col. Nicholas Van Rensselaer who fought on the American side at Quebec and at Saratoga, of which latter victory he brought the news to Albany. Mrs. Van Rensselaer was the third child of Edmond Charles Genet,
Ambassador from the first French Republic in 1793, known in American history as Citizen Genet, and of Cornelia Clinton, daughter of the American patriot George Clinton, who for twenty-four years was Governor of this State and died while Vice-President of the United States. Mrs. Van Rensselaer was baptized at Jamaica, Long Island, where she was born Augu .t 14th, 1802, by the Revd. Mr. Faitout by the name of Marie Louise Cardon Vanderquaille, but in an Act of the Legislature of this State to facilitate a division of the property of Governor George Clinton among his heirs she was named Marie Louisa Genet. As a child she was adopted by her grandfather, Governor Clinton, and was at his house at Casperskill on the Hudson with her aunt Maria Clinton, when a special messenger brought the news of the last illness of her grandfather at Washington. He was buried in the Congressional burying ground at Washington.
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