When Jacoba Hardenbergh was born on 2 April 1704, in Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States, her father, Major Johannes Gerrit Hardenbergh, was 34 and her mother, Catharine Rutsen, was 27. She married Edward Whitaker III on 29 December 1729, in Kingston, Ulster, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She died in 1790, in her hometown, at the age of 86.
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Dutch: archaic variant of Hardenberg, a habitational name from Hardenberg in Overijssel, the Netherlands or from a place of this name in Germany (see 2 below).
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Hardenberg: habitational name from a place called Hardenberg, for example near Göttingen.
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