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Van Rensselaer was born on August 6, 1774, in Rensselaer County, New York. He was the son of Henry Kiliaen van Rensselaer, a general in the Revolution, and his wife, Alida (Bradt). He was fifth in descent from Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the first patroon.
Solomon completed preparatory studies in East Greenbush.
In 1792, Solomon entered the United States Army as a cornet of cavalry, and in 1794, served as a captain under Gen. Anthony Wayne in his campaign against the Indians. He was seriously wounded in the battle of Fallen Timbers, August 20, 1794; was commissioned major in 1799; and was honorably discharged June 15, 1800. He was adjutant general of New York, 1801-09, 1810-11, and 1813-21. At the opening of the War of 1812, he was assigned to the post of aide-de-camp to his relative, Maj. -Gen. Stephen Van Rensselaer, and went with him to the Niagara River.
In August 1812, upon receipt of news that Henry Dearborn and Sir George Prevost had arranged an armistice, he negotiated with General Sheaffe a supplementary agreement by which either party might, during the armistice, bring forward troops and supplies on Lake Ontario an arrangement very advantageous to the United States. When the elder Van Rensselaer resolved to throw his army across the river and seize the British position at Queenstown (Queenston), Solomon was detailed to command the advance party of militia. His part in the attack of October 13, 1812, was successfully carried out.
With a force of some three hundred, he gained a foothold on the Canadian shore, and though he suffered several wounds, the troops under his direction scaled the heights above Queenstown and captured a British battery near the summit. Van Rensselaer's wounds necessitated removing him to the American side, and in later years he ascribed the ensuing disaster to his enforced absence from the battlefield a view of the matter hardly sustained by the facts. In February 1813, the Council of Appointment restored him to the position of adjutant general of the state, and although he campaigned actively for Stephen Van Rensselaer, Federalist candidate for governor against Daniel D. Tompkins in the spring of 1813, he continued in his position and was apparently on excellent terms with Tompkins.
In January 1822, he resigned his seat to accept the postmastership at Albany, to which he had been named over the protest of Vice-President Tompkins, Senator Van Buren, and Senator Rufus King, the first two objecting to having this office assigned to a former Federalist. Upon Jackson's election to the Presidency, Van Rensselaer's New York opponents sought to bring about his removal, but Van Rensselaer went to Washington and by calling attention to his honorable wounds in a dramatic interview with Jackson, saved his position. He was removed, however, by Van Buren in 1839.
In the Whig convention at Harrisburg in December 1839, he was a delegate from New York and claimed credit for swinging the delegation from that state to Harrison and thus bringing about his nomination. He was rewarded with restoration to the Albany postmastership in 1841, only to be again removed by Tyler two years later. He sought the same office again from Taylor in 1849, but without success. In 1836, he published A Narrative of the Affair of Queenstown in the War of 1812.
Van Rensselaer was postmaster of Albany, New York from 1822 to 1839, and from 1841 to 1843, and a delegate from New York at the opening of the Erie Canal on November 4, 1825. A Lieutenant Colonel of the New York Volunteers, he was instrumental in the defense the northern and western frontiers, commanding the troops involved in the Battle of Queenstown, where he was wounded several times.
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Van Rensselaer was elected as a Federalist to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth United States Congresses and served from March 4, 1819, to January 14, 1822, when he resigned. Elected to Congress in 1818 and re-elected in 1820, Solomon opposed the Missouri Compromise.
As a young man, a penchant for sharp criticism of opponents involved Solomon in a number of personal quarrels, among them an affray with Lieutenant-Governor Tayler of New York in 1807 and a near-duel with Peter B. Porter in 1812.
In later life, he was on cordial terms with some of his former enemies. It is evident that he thought of himself as an ill-rewarded military hero a role for which the chief bases were the gallant but futile assault at Queenstown and the wounds he received there and at Fallen Timbers.
Van Rensselaer was married, January 17, 1797, to his cousin, Harriet Van Rensselaer, by whom he had several children.
July 25, 1744 – September 9, 1816 Was a Colonel during the American Revolutionary War when he played a pivotal role in the Battle of Fort Anne.
1742 - 1 August 1795
1797 - 5 December 1880
1778 - 14 March 1838
23 May 1773 - 10 March 1846
1775 - 3 February 1840
1797–1858
1799–1835 Married Richard Van Rensselaer (1797–1880).
1816–1896 Married Dr. Peter Elmendorf.
1810–1880
1817–1891 Married Rev. Samuel W. Bonney (1815–1864) in 1856.
1802–1850 Married Mary Euphemia Forman in 1840.
1809–1809 Died aged 3 months.
1806-1812 Died aged 6.
1812–1813 Died aged 10 months.
