Background
Peter Hasenclever was born on November 24, 1716, at Remscheid, Prussia (today North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), the son of Luther and Klara (Moll) Hasenclever. His father was a merchant and owned iron and steel furnaces.
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Peter Hasenclever was born on November 24, 1716, at Remscheid, Prussia (today North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), the son of Luther and Klara (Moll) Hasenclever. His father was a merchant and owned iron and steel furnaces.
Peter was placed early in the home of his maternal grandfather, the burgomaster of Lennep, where be attended the public school for three years, geography being his favorite study. For instruction in other branches he was later sent to Solingen. His next school was a steel mill in that city, where at the age of fourteen, a boy of slender constitution, he was set to work by the side of men whose laboring hours were from five in the morning until nine at night with slight interruption. At the end of two years he was sent to Liège, Belgium, to improve his French, and a short season there terminated his formal education.
Before Hasenclever was nineteen, he was making trips to France for the enlargement of bis father’s business; but, since that bussiness was declining from various causes, he obtained permission to seek his fortune in enterprises of his own. In the employ of a cousin, a manufacturer of cloth and needles in Burtscheid, he began the series of journeys in Continental Europe as well as England that made him one of the best-equipped commercial men of his day.
Deceived in the hope held out to him that he should become a partner in his kinsman’s house, Peter found new friends, formed a profitable association in Lisbon, and extended his business to Cadiz. At Potsdam he attracted the attention of Frederick the Great, who consulted him on methods of improving the linen exports of Silesia. Lured by stories of opportunities in America, he formed a company with an initial capital of £21, 000 for the mining and manufacture of iron, the raising of flax and hemp, and the production of potash in the colonies; and, having become a British subject, he embarked for New York, arriving in June 1764. In Morris County, New Jersey, and Orange County, New York, and elsewhere, Hasenclever established works for mining and smelting, also for producing potash, and engaged in raising flax and hemp. He invested in draft animals, buildings, implements; built bridges, constructed dams for impounding waters, and tested mineral deposits.
Warned that an associate in England was handling the funds and credit recklessly, Hasenclever hastened to London to find this partner a bankrupt and the concern badly involved. After restoring his credit and reestablishing the business, he returned to New York only to find his American interests involved in like misfortune. Trouble with English directors ensued, and they set out to draw his American enterprises wholly into their own hands, and leave him only the obligations. A commission appointed by Governor William Franklin of New Jersey investigated Hasenclever’s transactions and returned a report in 1768 commending his commercial character. He thereupon set out to pay the debts by which he was connivingly loaded, and to secure his rights in the English courts. His suit dragged on in chancery and only in 1787, at the end of twenty years, was he released from all claims and free to engage in trade in England.
Hasenclever had removed to Silesia in 1773 and spent his last days trying to improve the industries of that province. Six months after his death two of his persecutors were compelled to pay a large sum to a house to which Hasenclever had transferred his claim.
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Hasenclever married in 1745 Katharine Wilds, daughter of an English sea-captain. They had a daughter, Maria Elisabeth Ruck.
