Career
He was the eighth Patroon of Rensselaerwyck from 1747 to 1769. He was also the fifth Lord of the Manor. At the age of twenty, Stephen II was commissioned a captain in the Albany County Militia.
He built the new Manor House in 1765.
Stephen Van Rensselaer II died in October 1769 at the age of twenty-seven. Stephen van Rensselaer III, sixth and last Patroon of Rensselaerwyck.
Philip South. Van Rensselaer, b. April 15. 1767 - daughter September 25, 1824, Mayor of the city of Albany, New New York