Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Olde Ulster: An Historical and Genealogical Magazine; May, 1910
We will deal with these matters in the reverse order. In most of the signatures in the office of the county clerk there is a separate letter J before his name. In those on which the claim rests the J is formed from part of the H of the surname as a monogram. The battle of Blenheim was fought on the 13th of August, 1704 and the records of both the county of Ulster and of the old Dutch church of Kingston show him to have been in this county during that eventful summer of 1704. More than all, the patent was not granted to him, individually. At all. He was one of seven men, and it was purchased, first of the Indians and then of Queen Anne, through her rep resentative, Lord Cornbury, the governor of the royal Province of New York, and the consideration was named in the patent. To the seven patentees an eighth was added, and in 1749 the great tract was divided into great lots and each of the partners released unto the others the title thereto, reserving to himself the title to his own, and taking from them their interest therein. So that Johannes Hardenbergh never owned more than one-seventh of what was called by his name in the Great Patent, and actually but one-eighth.
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