[a] Haring was born to a large Dutch family at Tappan, New York, which was then part of Orange County.
His parents were Colonel Abraham and Martyntje (Bogart) Haring, and he was christened "Jan" at the Dutch Reformed Church of Tappan.
On July 4, 1774, the community of Orangetown adopted the Orangetown Resolutions, which objected to the British "act for shutting up the port of Boston" and proposed "stopping of all exportation and importation to and from Great Britain and the West Indies"—Haring was one of five men named "to correspond with the City of New York, and to conclude and agree upon such measures as they shall judge necessary in order to obtain a repeal of said acts.
[2] In 1780, Haring and one of his daughters attended the hanging of John André, a British Army major who was executed as a spy.
About 1804, he returned to Tappan, New York, and was a presidential elector in 1804,[6] voting for Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton.
Haring died at Blauvelt, New York, on April 1, 1809, and is buried in the cemetery of the Reformed Church of Tappan.