RENSSELAER

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RENSSELAER , a city of Rensselaer county, New

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, U.S.A., in the eastern part of the state, on the E. bank of the Hudson river, opposite Albany. Pop. (Igloo) 7466, of whom 1089 were foreign-born; (19,0

census

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

) 10,711. It is served by the New

York

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Central and the Boston & Albany rail-ways, which have shops here, and is connected with Albany by three bridges across the Hudson. Rensselaer, originally called Greenbush, was first settled in 1631, and the site formed part of the large

tract

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

bought from the Indians by the agentsof Killian van. Rensselaer and known as Rensselaerwyck. In 1810 a square mile of land within the present city limits was acquired by a land speculator, was divided into lots and offered for sale. Development followed, and five years later the

village

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was incorporated. In 1897 Greenbush was chartered as a city, and its name was changed to Rensselaer. Its limits were extended in 1902 by the annexation of the

village

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of Bath (pop. in 1900, 2504) and the western part of the township of

East

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Greenbush. Rensselaer manufactures knit-goods, wool shoddy, felt, &c.

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