Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation . ed him a justice of the UnitedStates supreme court in 1793, which positionhe held when he died. He married, February9, 1779, Cornelia, daughter of John Bell. General Stephen and Cornelia (Paterson)Van Rensselaer had issue, born at Albany,New York: i. Catherine, born in ManorHouse, October 17, 1803, died, New York,November 5, 1874; married, Albany, June 2,1830, Gouverneur Morris Wilkins, died. NewYork City, F
Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation . ed him a justice of the UnitedStates supreme court in 1793, which positionhe held when he died. He married, February9, 1779, Cornelia, daughter of John Bell. General Stephen and Cornelia (Paterson)Van Rensselaer had issue, born at Albany,New York: i. Catherine, born in ManorHouse, October 17, 1803, died, New York,November 5, 1874; married, Albany, June 2,1830, Gouverneur Morris Wilkins, died. NewYork City, February 7, 1871, son of Martinand (Nutter) Wilkins; no issue. 2. Wil-liam Paterson, see forward. 3. Philip Stephen(or Philip Schuyler), born October 14, 1806,died. New York City, June i, 1871 ; married,October 17, 1839, Mary Rebecca Cortlandt, see forward. 5. Henry Bell, seeforward. 6. Cornelia Paterson, see Alexander, see forward. -8. EuphemiaWhite, see forward. 9. Westerlo, born March14, 1820, died, Albany, July 8, 1844, withoutissue. (VII) William Paterson Van Rensselaer,second child of General Stephen (3) and Cor-nelia (Paterson) Van Rensselaer, was born. SOUTHERN NEW YORK 1167 in Manor House, at Albany, New York, March6, 1805, died, New York City, November 13,1872. He received a thorough preparatoryeducation and then entered Yale College,graduating in the class of 1824. On leavingcollege he went to Edinburgh, Scotland,where he studied law through four years, com-pleting his studies in Paris. He was a scholar-ly man. with intellectual tastes, eminent as aphilanthropist and, as was said of him, wasregarded widely as an ideal Christian gentle-man. He built the handsome residence onthe brow of the wooded hill on the east sideof the Hudson, opposite the northern end ofAlbany, around 1840, or about the time ofhis marriage. It was a mansion comparingfavorably with that of his elder brother,Stephen Van Rensselaer, who had inheritedthe Manor House in Albany.
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