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Updated: May 24, 2025

Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York, 1:89-100. O'Callaghan, 1:124. Although it was said that Kiliaen van Rensselaer visited America, it seems to be established that he never did. He governed his estate as an absentee landgrave, through agents. He was the most powerful of all of the patroons. Ibid., 125. Colonial Documents, 1:41.

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