Jeremiah Van Rensselaer

Jeremiah Van Rensselaer
Portrait believed to be Jeremiah Van Rensselaer
3rd Lieutenant Governor of New York
In office 1801–1804
Governor	George Clinton
Preceded by	Stephen Van Rensselaer
Succeeded by	John Broome
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 6th district
In office March 4, 1789 – March 3, 1791
Preceded by	New district
Succeeded by	James Gordon
Personal details
Born	(1738-08-27)August 27, 1738 Rensselaerswyck, New York, British America
Died	February 10, 1810(1810-02-10) (aged 71) Albany, New York, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Judith Bayard (m. 1760; her death 1764) Helena Lansing (m. 1764; her death 1795)

Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (August 27, 1738 – February 19, 1810), from the prominent Van Rensselaer family, was the 3rd Lieutenant Governor of New York and a member of Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing New York in the 1st United States Congress.

Jeremiah Van Rensselaer was born on August 27, 1738 at the main home of his family's manor, "Rensselaerswyck" in what is now Watervliet, New York. His parents were Johannes Van Rensselaer (1708–1793) and Engeltie "Angelica" Livingston (1698–1747), who married in 1734. He was the third of six children: Catherine (b. 1734), Margarita (b. 1736), Jeremiah, Robert (b. 1740), Hendrick (b. 1742), and James (b. 1747). His mother died before he was 10 years-old and his father remarried, to Gertrude van Cortlandt.

His older sister was Catherine van Rensselaer (1734–1803) who in 1755 married Philip Schuyler (1733–1804), a Revolutionary general and United States Senator from New York. This relationship made him the maternal uncle to Angelica Schuyler (1756-1814), who married British MP John Barker Church, Elizabeth Schuyler (1757-1854), who married Alexander Hamilton, the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Margarita Schuyler (1758-1801), who married Stephen Van Rensselaer III, the son of Jeremiah's first cousin, Stephen van Rensselaer II (1742–1769), and Philip Jeremiah Schuyler (1768-1835), who also served in the United States House of Representatives.