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Membership

Eligibility Outline

Membership in the Order is solely by invitation, and is open to men and women who are lineally descended in either the male or female line from a recognized Patroon, Seigneur, or Lord of a Manor of New Netherland, the Province of New York, the Province of Maryland, or a similar system of landholding (with Court Leet or Court Baron) in any other of the original colonies.

Portrait of Stephen Van Rensselaer III, New York landowner and politician featured on Colonial Lords page
Stephen Van Rensselaer III, c.1790, by Gilbert Stuart
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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