Johannes Hardenbergh Jr. (1729-1799)
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- Record Title
- Johannes Hardenbergh Jr. (1729-1799)
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-00356
- Given Name
- Johannes
- Family Name
- Hardenbergh
- Alternate Name
- Colonel Ardinburgh
- Birth Date
- 1729
- Death Date
- 1799
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
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Johannes Hardenbergh Jr. (1729-1799) was a wealthy landowner and slaveholder from Ulster County, New York. He was the brother of Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1736-1790), the first president of Queen's College (later Rutgers).
Among the Black people enslaved by Johannes Hardenbergh at his home in Swartekill (present-day Rifton) in Ulster County were James and Betsey Baumfree and their daughter, a girl named Isabella Baumfree, who would grow up to become a famous abolitionist and women's rights advocate. Hardenbergh's son Charles inherited the Baumfree family in 1799 when Isabella was about 2 years old. Years later, after Isabella escaped to freedom and became a preacher, she adopted the name Sojourner Truth.
Johannes Hardenbergh was a member of the New York Colonial Assembly before the Revolution. He was a Colonel during the Revolutionary War, as was his father who shared the same name. Historical narratives sometimes confuse the two men because they were both known as Col. Johannes Hardenbergh. His father was the elder Col. Johannes Hardenbergh (1706-1786), and his grandfather was Sir Johannes Hardenbergh (1670-1745). - Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Child of
- Johannes Hardenbergh (1706-1786)
- Parent of
- Charles Hardenbergh (1765-1808)
- Sibling of
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Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh Sr. (1736-1790)
- Spouse of
- Maria LeFevre Hardenbergh
- References
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Van Rossum, Helene. “How Rutgers University Is Connected to Sojourner Truth: The Hardenbergh Family in Ulster County, NY.” What Exit? New Jerseyana at Rutgers University Special Collections and University Archives (blog), June 16, 2017. http://sinclairnj.blogs.rutgers.edu/2017/06/rutgers-connection-to-sojourner-truth-the-hardenbergh-family/.
Miller, Myrtle Hardenbergh. The Hardenbergh Family: A Genealogical Compilation. New York: American Historical Co., 1958. http://archive.org/details/hardenbergfamily00mill.
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1797 to 1799 Birth: Sojourner Truth (Role: Enslaver)
- 1799 Transfer: Sojourner Truth, James Baumfree, Elizabeth Baumfree (Role: Enslaver, Deceased)
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