A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies: 1660-1880Firth Haring Fabend has studied a large colonial American family over five generations. The Haring family settled in the Hackensack Valley (on the New York New Jersey border), where they lived, prospered, and remained throughout the eighteenth century. Fabend looks at how this ordinary family of independent, middle class farmers coped with immigration, established themselves in a community, acquired land and capital, and took part in the social,