My known HART ancestry begins with James HART who married Amelia SHAFER about 1818 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. There first son was Obadiah and their first daughter Jane. I am descended from a younger son, Abraham. In a census, Abraham and his brothers say that their father was born in Connecticut. As James is not in Pennsylvania for the 1810 census, I suspect that he stopped in New York, as did so many, on the way from Connecticut. He died before the 1850 census. He would have been born about 1785. I have compiled a sizeable family of the descendants of James and Amelia, many found through this list. Have I missed anyone? Rock Honolulu