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Anna Van Rensselaer Douw
Anna
Van Rensselaer was born in Rensselaerswyck in January
1696. She was the fourth daughter of the eleven children
born to Hendrick and Catharina Van Brugh Douw.
In
October 1717, her father's Albany home was the site
of her marriage to promising Petrus Douw of Rensselaerswyck.
All nine of their children born between 1718 and
1736 survived to further connect the families within
the upper Hudson region. She was the mother of Albany
mayor, Volkert P. Douw.
During
Anna's childbearing years, her growing family resided
in one of the Douw houses on lower State Street.
By the 1740s, Petrus had built a country home called
Wolvenhook on a choice riverside location within
her father's manor. As time passed, however, these
Douws would spend more and more time in their Greenbush
home.
Anna
Van Rensselaer died in April 1756 at age sixty. She
was buried from the Albany Dutch Church. Her husband
survived for another nineteen years.
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Notes: The
life of Anna Van Rensselaer Douw is CAP biography
number 5059. This profile is derived chiefly from
family and community-based resources.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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