In a message dated 2/14/99 11:35:22 AM, [email protected] wrote: <<I have Harts in Livingston and Caldwell Counties in KY. Mamie>> Hi Mamie, I have a cousin relationship with some of the Hart family through my Rice lineage. Thomas Hart who settled in NC was married to Susannah Rice, sister to my ancestor, John Rice of Hanover County, VA. Thomas and Susannah's daughter Ann Hart, married James Gooch. When the Gooch couple met an untimely death, their daughter, Ann Gooch, was raised by her grandparents, Thomas and Susannah. Ann married Jesse Benton, who was a young lawyer in Orange County, NC during the Revolutionary Period. Ann Gooch and Jesse Benton had several children, among whom was Thomas Hart Benton, the well-known orator and lawyer who often went head to head in physical and oratorial combat with Andrew Jackson. Nathaniel Hart was also an offspring of Thomas Hart and Susannah Rice. Nathaniel Hart was married to another cousin, Sarah Simpson of Caswell County, NC; Nathaniel was a member of the Transylvania Company who helped organize the settlement of the Tennessee territories, which included Kentucky. I am also a descendant of some of the Tate clan who settled in Guilford County and Caswell County, NC. Do you think that we may have some connections there as well. Best regards, John Fox Winston-Salem, NC