Welles Hardenbergh connection. 12/2/00 3:27 PM Subject: a Hardenbergh questionTo: jch@jch.com Howdy. It's a slow hour so I am browsing the web and got back to your page. Do I get to be on the Hardenbergh page if my great-great grand-mother was Johanna Hardenbergh? Her father was Jacob Hardenbergh, the banker in New Brunswick, and his father was the first Rutgers president. Johanna married Ransford Welles, pastor in Newark, and their daughter, Mary Wells (the names changed often) had a son, Philip Furbeck, pastor in Little Falls, N.J., down the street from us. Philip and Mary's son was my grandfather, Rev. H. Rutsen Furbeck, and the family has used Hardenbergh and Wells and Rutsen as middle names down the line. Let me know if you want a cleaned-up version of this for your page, with attention to dates and so on. In Philip's generation of cousins was Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, the architect who financed the first extensive family genealogy (errors in which were cleaned up by "The Hardenbergh Family." I am determined to meet at least one other Hardenbergh in my lifetime, especially in New Jersey where we live, or in New York where I work; it hasn't happened yet, but at least we have exchanged E-mails and that is a good sign. All best, Ford Burkhart (http://www.jch.com/~jch/hardenbergh.org)