. HARDENBERGH

OF THE

SECOND NEW YORK CONTINENTAL REGIMENT

FROM MAY 1 TO OCTOBER 3, 1779,

IN GENERAL SULLIVAN'S CAMPAIGN

AGAINST THE

Western Indians

With an introduction, copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the
Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade

BY GEN'L JOHN S. CLARK

And parts of other Journals never before published.

ALSO A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

BY REV. CHARLES HAWLEY, D.D.

President of the Society.

Auburn, N.Y.
1879.

TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES.

Number 7

KNAPP & PECK,
Book, Job and Commercial Printers,
AUBURN, N.Y.

CONTENTS.

Pages.

BIOGRAPHICAL, 7 to 19

INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALS, 20 to 22

BATTLE OF NEWTOWN, MAP, 44 to --

HARDENBERGH'S JOURNAL AND NOTES, 23 to 59

GENERAL JAMES CLINTON'S MARCH, 60 to --

BEATTY'S JOURNAL AND NOTES, 61 to 68

GROVELAND AMBUSCADE, MAP, 50 to --

EXPEDITION AGAINST THE CAYUGAS, 69 to 70

THOMAS GRANT'S JOURNAL AND NOTES, 70 to 73

GEORGE GRANT'S JOURNAL AND NOTES, 73 to 75

COLONEL DEARBORN'S MARCH, 76 to 77

DEARBORN'S JOURNAL AND NOTES, 77 to 81

INDIAN TOWNS DESTROYED, 82 to 87

LIST OF JOURNALS AND NARRATIVES, 88 to 94

BIOGRAPHICAL.

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.[1] 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 an