Patroon Creek
| Patroon Creek | |
| Bloomaerts Kill, Fifth Kill, Mill Creek, Patroon's Creek |
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| River | |
| Named for: the patroon of Rensselaerswyck | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | New York |
| Municipality |  City of Albany |
| Part of | Hudson River Watershed |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Sand Creek |
| Coordinates | 42°41′03″N 73°47′10″W / 42.68417°N 73.78611°WCoordinates: 42°41′03″N 73°47′10″W / 42.68417°N 73.78611°W |
| Source | Rensselaer Lake |
| - location | Albany, New York, United States |
| - elevation | 249 ft (76 m) |
| - coordinates | 42°41′52″N 73°50′0″W / 42.69778°N 73.83333°W |
| Mouth | Hudson River |
| - location | Albany, New York, United States |
| - elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
| - coordinates | 42°39′34″N 73°44′15″W / 42.65944°N 73.73750°W |
| Length | 6.2 mi (10 km) |
| Basin | 13.1 sq mi (34 km2) |
| Discharge | for Northern Boulevard Viaduct Latitude 42°40'17" Longitude 73°45'22" |
| - average | 30.6 cu ft/s (1 m3/s) |
| - max | 619 cu ft/s (18 m3/s) |
| - min | 9.81 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) |
| Timezone | EST (UTC-5) |
| - summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP Code | 12205, 12206, 12207 |
| Area code | 518 |
.svg) Patroon Creek watershed
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Patroon Creek is a stream in Albany County, New York, United States and is a tributary of the Hudson River which flows south to New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean. The creek's source is Rensselaer Lake in the western section of the city of Albany and flows along the northern border of said city with the town of Colonie to its mouth at the Hudson River. The creek received its name from the patroon of Rensselaerswyck.
Patroon Creek, starting with Henry Hudson's discovery of the Hudson River, was a part of the Dutch colony New Netherland and the patroonship of Rensselaerswyck, founded in 1630. On the 1632 Map of Rensselaerswyck the mouth of the Patroon Creek is labeled as "Bloommaert's Burt", and Patroon Creek gained the name of Bloomaert's Kill, kill being the Dutch word for creek or stream. Another early name for the kill was Fifth Kill, it being the fifth (and final) kill (counting from the south) in the colonial Albany area. Early settlers in the 17th century included Gerrit Thensz de Reux who settled a farm on the Blommaerts Kill in 1632, and Rutger Jacobsz in 1645 and Adrian Hybertsz in 1647 who settled just north of the kill. In 1654 Jacob Jansz Flodder was the highest bidder for establishing grist and sawmills on the kill and Barent Pietersz Koeymans and Teunis Cornelisz van Spitsbergen obtained a lease for a sawmill higher up the kill. In 1666 Jeremias van Rensselaer, the fourth patroon, established several barns and mills along the kill on what is now Tivoli Street. The Old Manor House was also built by the patroon just north of the creek near its mouth with the Hudson in 1666.
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