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they could rebuild their house, the family lived in a room of a friend's house. During that time, around the first of
November, van Rensselaer gave birth to the couple's third child, Hendrick. Jeremias had a new house on their farm called Watervliet built within a mile north of Albany. It was completed in the winter and new brewery was completed in the summer of 1667. In January 1669/1670, she had a still born baby. In December 1670, she had their fifth child, the fourth surviving baby, Johannes.
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north of present-day Albany. In the summer of 1668, she wanted to engage in the fur trade, but due to the war between
England and Holland and halted cross-Atlantic shipping, goods were not received in New Amsterdam to trade for furs. The van Rensselaers generated some income from their brewery, but not what they would have been possible during a healthy local economy. Years of wars between the Algonquins and the Mohawk tribes made it difficult to engage in commerce.
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and caused other medical problems. The situation was made worse when she was pregnant, due to the extra weight on her hips. She used hot compresses, with did not seem to help. Jeremias wrote to his mother asking her to send oil of sulphur, balm of Joost de Coge, or red salve to treat Maria. She had a
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and caused an extensive flood, which cleared away 40 buildings and barns. Included in that total was the van
Rensselaer's house, brewery, and a barn. They were only able to carry away a trunk of their best clothes and linens and then retrieve a few of their household items that had washed away. Until
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during an epidemic that
Jeremias wrote to his mother "raged here so severely that it is indescribable." Maria recovered, but had evidence of the having had the smallpox for some time. She was then pregnant with their first child, Kiliaen, who was born on August 24, 1663. After having given birth, she
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Rensselaer worked that business. When a flood washed away their house and brewery, they were rebuilt near each other just
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missionary, visited the manor in 1680 and described van
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Maria's father became good friends with the van
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I had planned to send over Kiliaen, but as the war still rages so severely I have on the advice of friends, apprenticed him here in this country to a silversmith to learn that trade and meanwhile to see what God may grant with respect to the
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festering wound near her hip that became so severe that surgery was required. The illness spread through her bloodstream. After the surgery she had some relief and later had flare-ups over the course of her life.
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