Dutch patroon
Kiliaen van Rensselaer
1586 – 1643
Amsterdam diamond merchant and first patroon of Rensselaerswyck, who never visited his colony. In 1632 he planned a brewery 'to provide all New Netherland with beer' and in 1642 licensed Evert Pels as public brewer to stop fire-prone private brewing and 20-guilder-a-barrel beer.
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