Henry Hart of Fayette County Henry Hart Sr (1745/50-1814, Kentucky) lived Menallen twp, Fayette co, m Mary Broughton/?Bratten (1749, Md-1785/6, Penna) and had: Richard Hart married Mary Teats/Deats (1/31/1797), daughter of Micheal and Catherine Teats/Deats (Nelson Co, KY Bonds, Marriages, and Consents, 1785-1800, Nelson Co Genealogists). Sophia Hart m (9/19/1797) Richard or Cephas Simmons, son of Jonathan Simmons m Elizabeth Childs. Lydia/Liddie Hart m (1/1/1793) John Lewis Duvall, son of Lewis Duvall and Margaret Driscoll of Westmoreland Co; Elizabeth Hart m (bond 4/7/1795, m 4/15/1795) Robert Samuels, son of Richard Samuels; witness to consent of the marriage, Robert Hart (Bullit Co, KY, Marriages 1797-1876, Joyce Lindstrom, 1988). Henry Hart Jr (3/30/1785-12/16/1852) m (1805) Rachel Hamed (11/2/1788-12/27/1849). John H Hart (Who Was Who in Hardin Co, KY) states that Henry Jr was twelve in 1797 when the family moved to Bullit Co, Kentucky. William Keith married Dorothy Hart, widow of Henry Hart, in 1813 in Nelson County, Kentucky. The 1772 Tax list for Bedford County Pennsylvania records Henry Hart as single. He appears in 1773 on the Westmoreland Co tax lists as living in Springhill Twp (Penna Archives, series3, vol22, p42). Henry Hart signed the Westsylvania Petition along with Charles Broughton/Bratten, John Broughton, and Lewis Duvall (Papers of Continental Congress, No48, Folio 251-6, p89-96). Henry Hart appears on a miscellaneous list of militiamen who received certificates/pay vouchers in the First to Fifth Battalions of the Westmoreland County Militia for participating in Col William Crawford's Sandusky expedition. The 1782 expedition during the French and Indian War ended in defeat; the eighteen companies were routed and a number were captured and tortured. Crawford was burned at the stake. John Hardin, who had served as a lieutenant in the 8th PA Regiment earlier, commanded one of the companies. He became a militia colonel in Nelson Co, Kentucky, in 1789, and was murdered in 1792. Hardin County, Kentucky, formed that year, was named for him. Henry Hart is probably the same who married Elizabeth Broughton/Bratten, a widow with three children: Charles Broughton; Mary Broughton m Strain; and Nancy Broughton m Strain. Land records show that Henry Hart held 187 acres (patent 3/7/1785, survey filed 12/23/1785, Fayette Co Deed Book P, vol4, p36, Fayette Co #10, Land Office, Harrisburg) called "Hartsburg" on Dunlap's Creek in Menallen Twp, Fayette Co, which included 6% allowance for roads, adjacent to Tunas Newkirk. Henry Hart appears on Fayette tax lists in 1785 and 1786. Henry Hart, yeoman, and Elizabeth Hart of Menallen Twp deed part of his grant to Margaret Sturgeon (widow) of Menallen (Deed A:253-4, 4/14/1787). He appears on Nelson County, Kentucky, tax lists 6/10/1788. Henry Hart then appears among others on a 11/3/1788 petition to the Virginia legislature for land in Bardstown (Descendants of Henry Hart by Don Hart, 1986). Henry Hart appears (1798) on Bullitt Co tax lists with 400 acres on Long Lick Creek, adjacent Jacob Beeson. Henry and Elizabeth Hart are named as heirs (9/16/1803) of Charles Broughton/Bratten, deceased. Henry Hart filed in Bullit Co (Will A:40, probated 3/10/1806): I, Henry Hart, am to be maintained by my son Henry as long as I live. All my lands, stock and moveables to him. He is to pay my debts and pay 30 pounds to every one of his sisters (Liddy m John Lewis Duvall, Elizabeth m Robert Samuels, Sophia m Cephas Simmons) and brother Richard. Witnesses are Dan Grable, John W Hundley. In Bullit County Henry and Dolly Hart deed 100 acres on Crooked Creek to Richard Hart (Deed B:275,26:11/26/1808).