Person:Jacob Hardenbergh (1)

     
Rev. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh
  • F.  Johannes Hardenbergh (add)
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  1. Rev. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh1735/36 - 1790
  • HRev. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh1735/36 - 1790
  • WDinah van Bergh1724/25 - 1807
m. 18 Mar 1756
  1. Laura Hardenbergh1757 - 1785
  2. Maria Hardenbergh1757 - 1789
  3. Elinor Hardenbergh1760 -
  4. Jacob Hardenbergh1768 - 1844
Facts and Events
Name Rev. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh
Gender Male
Birth[1] 22 Feb 1735/36 Rosendale, Ulster, New York, United States
Marriage 18 Mar 1756 Raritan, Somerset, New Jersey, United Statesto Dinah van Bergh
Death[1] 30 Oct 1790 New Brunswick, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States
Burial[1] New Brunswick, Middlesex, New Jersey, United StatesFirst Reformed Church Cemetery
Reference Number Q6119206 (Wikidata)


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Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (22 February 1735/6 – 30 October 1790) was an American Dutch Reformed clergyman, colonial and state legislator, and educator. Hardenbergh was a founder of Queen's College—now Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—in 1766, and was later appointed as the college's first president.

Hardenbergh was descended from a Dutch family that settled New Amsterdam in the seventeenth century and was prominent in New York colonial affairs. He prepared for ministry at the home of the Reverend John Frelinghuysen, a prominent Dutch Reformed minister near Somerville, New Jersey. After being ordained, Hardenbergh was called to serve congregations in New Jersey's Raritan River valley, and later in Ulster County, New York. During the 1760s, Hardenbergh was influential in the establishment of Queen's College, the eighth of nine colleges established during the colonial period. After his efforts to lobby Britain's King George III and New Jersey's royal governor, William Franklin to permit the establishment of a Dutch Reformed-affiliated college, Queen's College was chartered in 1766. During the American Revolution, Hardenbergh served as a delegate for New Jersey's Provincial Congress which ratified the Declaration of Independence and to frame the state's first constitution (1776). He subsequently served several successive one-year terms in New Jersey's General Assembly. In 1785, Hardenbergh was appointed as the first president of Queen's College, a post he would hold from 1786 to his death in 1790.

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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rev Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, in Find A Grave.

    This lists his birth date as 2 Feb 1730, but his gravestone says he was 59, which would mean he was born in 1731, but Wikipedia lists 22 February 1735/6.