Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh
The Reverend Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, D.D., S.T.D., was an American Dutch Reformed clergyman, colonial and state legislator, and educator. Hardenbergh was a founder of Queens Collegenow Rutgers, The State University of New Jerseyin 1766, and was later appointed as the colleges first president.
Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh was born onFebruary 173536 at Rosendale near Kingston, Ulster County, New York in the Hudson River valley. He was the son of Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh, Jr. and Maria DuBois . His parents had married in Kingston onDecember 1728 and seven children were born to the marriage of which Jacob was the fourth. His father, later served with distinction as a field officer under Washington in the Continental Army, served in New Yorks Colonial Assembly. Frelinghuysen instructed Hardenbergh from his home, preserved as the Old Dutch Parsonage in Somerville, New Jersey.
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