Browse Items (2 total) Creator is exactly "Hardenbergh, Jacob Rutsen" Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Sort by: Title Creator Date Letter to his father Col. Johannes Hardenbergh 1777-12-06 Hardenbergh, Jacob Rutsen Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1736-1790) mentions an enslaved man in a letter to his father Col. Johannes Hardenbergh (1706-1786). Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh was one of the chief founders of Queen's College (later Rutgers) and served as the school's… Tags: Hardenbergh family, Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1736–1790), Johannes Hardenbergh (1706-1786), letter FOR SALE By the subscriber, a Negro wench 1801-03-27 Hardenbergh, Jacob Rutsen Jacob R. Hardenberg (Queen's College trustee and son of the college's first president) advertises a 35-year-old black woman for sale in Somerville. The ad was first issued on December 16, 1800, and ran for at least 3 months until March 1801 in… Tags: Hardenbergh family, Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1767-1841), slave sale ad