Johan van Rensselaer

[4] Samuel Blommaert and Joannes de Laet tried to get more influence in the colony, as both owned one fifth and opened a legal case.

The States-General of the Netherlands decided in the same year that he was allowed to keep his title and call himself "patron" of Rensselaerswyck,[5] and that the Patroon be more accountable to the shareholders.

[4] Among the papers of the New York Public Library is a letter from Johan Rensselaer, Patroon of Rensselaerwyck and his partners to the Burgomasters of Amsterdam seeking intervention to correct abuses by Governor Stuyvesant against the liberties of the colony, [6] an apparent reference to the Governor's 1648 dispute with Van Slechtenhorst at Fort Orange.

With them travelled a dozen employees hired by the Patroon,[7] recruited from places where the Van Rensselaers had other interests.

The patron and his partners in Amsterdam lodged a protest, but the West India Company procrastinated until the English seized control in 1664.

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