Excerpt from The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment: From May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan"s Campaign Against the Western Indians
John Leonard Hardenbergh, the author of the following Journal, was a native of Rosendale. Ulster County, in the Province of New York, born in the year 1748. He was the son of Leonard and Rachel Hardenbergh, and the youngest of seven children. The family name is one of the oldest in the State, and is prominent both in its colonial and revolutionary annals. As early as 1644, Arnoldus van Hardenbergh a "free merchant" emigrated from Holland to New Amsterdam "with a cargo of wares for sale in the colony." He was soon after selected as one of the original Nine Men of New Netherland, and served in this board from 1647 to 1650. He was followed in, or about, the year 1652, by his brother Johannes van Hardenbergh, also a merchant from Amsterdam, who at this date was purchaser of "a house, lot and garden" on Manhattan Island.
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