Stephen van Rensselaer II

Stephen van Rensselaer II was the sixth child of Stephen van Rensselaer I and Elizabeth Groesbeck. He was the eighth Patroon of Rensselaerwyck from 1747 to 1769. He was also the fifth Lord of the Manor. June 2, 1742

Stephen van Rensselaer II was born on June 2, 1742, as the sixth child of his parents. As sole-surviving son, he inherited the Manor of Rensselaerwyck when he was 5 years old; the Manor was administered by his brother in law Abraham Ten Broeck until he came of age. At the age of twenty, Stephen II was commissioned a captain in the Albany County Militia. He built the new Manor House in 1765.

He married Catherine Livingston, daughter of Philip Livingston, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his wife Christina Ten Broeck, in January 1764 and had three children; Stephen van Rensselaer III, sixth and last Patroon of Rensselaerwyck; Philip S. Van Rensselaer, b. April 15. 1767 - d. September 25, 1824, Mayor of the city of Albany, New York; Elizabeth Van Rensselaer (1768–1841).

Stephen Van Rensselaer II died of a pulmonary disease on October 19, 1769 at the age of twenty-seven.