I hope this does not get posted twice. I messed up and sent it to the subscribe list. The information is taken from various pieces of correspondance.E-mail me if there is a connection. Fri, 16 Apr 1999 09:29:28 -0500 From: Rebecca Hart-Hand <[email protected]> Joshua HART, born 29 August 1778, in New Hampshire. Typed transcription of the his Bible recoreds indicate his father, Samuel HART, was born 8 Jan 1741. This is the same date (so is the death date in the bible transcription) as found for Samuel HART in pension excerpts. Samuel's first wife was Elizabeth (probably Lambert). Second wife Keziah (surname unknown). Joshua first married Nancy PLACE, 2nd married Esther Ann WEED (1st husband-- ? OSGOOD). Joshua may or may not have been involved in newspapers in Ohio. I've only found two Joshua HARTs in the right time frame in census indices I've found. One had the wrong wife's name. The only clue I have Joshua was in Ohio was a census listing stating Chauncey (and obviously, Nancy) were born in Ohio. Makes sense Joshua was in New York--Esther WEED was born in Wayne County, and I assume, married and widowed there. Kent, Barry, and other counties in Michigan were primarily settled by migrants from western New York. This information was taken from my correspondance and in the research of Micheal Stamm of Texas. The following information is my researcJoshua Hart Land Records Found The land that Joshua Hart purchased from the Holland Land Company was located in Cattaraugus County in Yorkshire Township in N.Y.. This happens to be the exact place where Robert Kinsman Hart married Lucretia Cochran in 1831. Whoopee do you say! Well this is just further evidence that Joshua is Robert’s father. I’ve attached copies of the letter and record for your interest or to make paper airplanes out of. The Hart’s are of relatively boring New England stock. The Curlette family on the other hand was full of rebels. My father obviously did not know this when he married my mother(a Curlett with the E dropped) .This would have definitely upset his conservative refined English sensibilities. Attached is a copy of a letter detailing the Curlette’s rebellious side. Note how many countries they were forced to leave. We’re lucky that a least Joshua Hart decided to go to New York and leave New Hampshire or we might all have funny accents. hRebecca Hart-Hand 872 East Drive Woodruff Place ~ Indianapolis, Indiana 46201-1924 Home Phone (317) 635 -4429 Thomas Hart 1607 Information about Thomas Hart I found in various genealogical memoirs. A Mr. Warren Winslow Hart (b.1872) was a member of the New England Genealogical and Biographical Society. He also descended from this line. Information in his memoirs published by the Society provided further information on Thomas Hart. Thomas Hart departed from Baddow, Essex Co. England in June 1635 in a ship called the Desire. He sailed to Boston, where he was an indentured servant to one John Brown, a tailor. More information about his life in the colonies came from The New Hampshire and Maine Genealogical Dictionary. He was listed as a proprietor of Ipswich in 1639 and a commoner in 1641. He was town clerk in 1648 ( Ipswich) and a selectman in 1663. It also said that he owned a share and a half of Plum Island just off the coast of Ipswich. His trade was that of tanner. He married a women named Alice (last name unknown). They had four children at Ipswich: Samuel, Sarah, Thomas, and Mary. He died March 8 1674 and was buried in the High Street Cemetery. Lieutenant Thomas 1640 Our line descends from Thomas Hart who was known as Lieutenant Thomas . He was the oldest child of Thomas and Alice Hart. Like his father, he was a tanner by trade and earned the title Lieutenant by fighting in the king Phillips War. His local political career was limited to raising money for a new meeting house in Ipswich . Thomas married in Ipswich Mary Norton ( born Feb 28 1643 in Gloucester , MA) on Oct.12 1664. The children born at Ipswich were Mary ,Thomas, Lydia, Samuel, Nathaniel, John and Joseph. Lieutenant Thomas died Dec 13, 1717 at age 77. His wife died November 29, 1689. Captain Samuel 1674 Captain Samuel was the 5th child of Lieutenant Thomas and Mary Norton Hart. He was born at Ipswich August 16th 1674. He married his first wife at Dover ,NH May 2nd 1699. Her name was Mary Evens (of Dover). She died June 23rd 1715 at 35. She was buried at Point of Pines Cemetery at Portsmouth , NH. The children of the union of Capstan Samuel and Mary Evens were Mary, Samuel, Sarah, Robert, John,George, Nathaniel, and twins named Sarah and Lydia . .He wasted not time remarrying after his wife’s death. The Captain’s second wife was a widow by the name of Mary Booth also of Portsmouth. They had one child together also named John born in 1716. The date of this marriage was July 13, 1715. Captain Samuel had purchased land at Portsmouth in 1702. He was a blacksmith by trade. he was locally active as deacon of North Congregational Church and selectman for the town of Portsmouth in 1714. I have no idea how he came by the title Captain. According to the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire he died in 1755 the same year as his second wife in Portsmouth. I assume he was also buried at the Point of Pine Cemetery. Robert (Evens) Hart 1704 Robert (Evens) Hart was the fourth child of Captain Samuel and Mary Evens . He was born in Portsmouth on August 16,1704. He married Bethiah Fitts in Ipswich January 22, 1729. She died sometime before l734 . There were apparently no children as a result of this union. He married a second time in Portsmouth Elizabeth (Waterhouse) Sergeant , a widow of John Sergeant. The marriage date was Oct. 24, 1734. The children by this marriage were Nathaniel,Kesiah, Samuel, and Elizabeth . All these names and birth or baptismal dates were listed in the papers of David Charles Hart. This list may have come from a bible that belonged to Robert Evens Hart because it included all the names and birth/baptismal dates of all of his grandchildren as well. He may have worked in the Portsmouth ship yard . I could find no specific information on his trade or an exact death date. Nathaniel (Waterhouse) Hart 1735 Nathaniel (Waterhouse) Hart was the oldest son of Robert (Evens) Hart and Elizabeth Waterhouse) Sargent Hart. . Nathaniel was born /baptized on May 14, 1735 at Portsmouth i n North Congregational Church , James Morrison Hart said he was a farmer and shoemaker by trade. He settled at Lee New Hampshire near his brother Samuel (b.1741). ( Later his son would follow him to Jefferson ) At Lee he married a woman named Elizabeth ( maiden name probably Kinsmen according to James Morrison Hart). According also to James Morrison Hart the children of this union were Robert(Kinsmen ) Hart ,Abigail, Betsey, Kinsmen, Theodore, Samuel. Most of these children were born at Lee NH. One of the males in this line is most likely the father of a child named Joshua Hart (born 1777) according to David Charles Hart. Nathaniel went to live with his son Theodore in his old age and died at Meredith , NH. I have no exact death date. Joshua Hart 1787 According to family records Joshua Hart was born August 29, 1787. We are not sure who his parents were but since he named his son Robert Kinsmen Hart (born 1809) I think he is most likely a grandson of Robert (Evens) Hart. This is the only family line were the name Kinsmen is used. Joshua Hart probably was born in Lee NH. There is much on record on him as an adult in Jefferson, NH. He is also listed on the 1810 Federal Census there. he signed many petitions there and held offices there including school board. He appears also to have been a farmer and shoe maker by trade. On the census he is listed as living next door to Samuel Hart (l741) who served in the Revolution under Colonel Whipple. This is most likely Joshua’s uncle. His name and birth/baptismal is listed in family records. Samuel (Waterhouse) was the son of the Samuel of 1741. This is according to family and Jefferson sources. He was born in Portsmouth but grew up in Lee.. He is listed with Joshua in many records of Jefferson according to a Coos Co. history from the late 1800s and records in the New Hampshire State Archives. The papers of David Charles Hart list the children of Joshua Hart as George, Betsey, Joshua, and Samuel. There is no name given for the first wife. By a second wife whose last name was said to be Webster there were listed Ira , Wilson, Nancy and Chancy twins. The children by the first marriage were most likely born in Jefferson. In the 1820’s there is record of Joshua purchasing land in upstate western NY from the Holland Land Company . .The children from the second marriage were born in this area as well. Robert (Kinsmen) Hart 1809 Robert K. Hart was born June 19 , 1809 in NH. This was supported by the papers of David Charles Hart and a book called Memoirs of Lucas County by Scribner (1910). These sources also indicate that he married a Lucretia Cochran of Pembroke NH.(b. 1811). According to family records the marriage took place in Cataraugus Co. NY in the township of Yorkshire. The date given was Jan 31,1833. The 1850 census shows the family living in Castile, Wyoming Co. NY. They also lived in nearby Perry. They are listed there in a town census in 1840. There was also a Soloman Hart listed there . I am not sure if his family is related. He appears to descend from Connecticut Harts. Here Robert is listed as a shoemaker . Children by this union were George Washington Hart, Webster K , and Mary Viola . Lucretia Cochran died in 1853. The name of the second wife was Isabella Parker. They apparently moved to Michigan. Mary Viola Hart lived in the town of Marshall MI and her married name was Manning. The rest of the Hart history is covered in Memoirs of Lucas County Ohio (copies attached). This covers the history until 1901 the birth of George Andrews Hart. April 16, 1999 Hart Communications P.O. Box 453 Lincoln , MA 01773 SHORT BIOGRAHICAL MEMOIRS OF GEORGE W. HART AND DAVID CHARLES HART Dear Hart Historical Notes, The attached photocopies are from a book called Memoirs of Lucas County Ohio and the City of Toledo by SCRIBNER VOL 2 (published 1910) . It was published by the Madison Wisconsin Western Historical Association .The subjects of these particular memoirs were my great -great grandfather and my great grandfather. I thought they might be of interest to your publication. The information in them is basically correct except that there are two birth places listed for George W.Hart.The correct birth place is Pavilion, Livingston Co. NY. The only other information I can add about the life of David Charles Hart is that he eventually worked in life insurance. He lived in the house mentioned in the article until the late 1940’s when he moved to Dayton Ohio area where he died at age 93 in 1959. His son George Andrews Hart was born in 1901 and worked as a petroleum engineer for a while. His wife’s name was Catherine Shear. They were both graduates of Ohio State. George Andrews settled in Oakwood Oh.(after having lived in many other places). They had two children Sarah F. Hart and my father John David Hart (b. 1933) . George Andrews Hart died in 1976 in Centerville OH. I hope you find these short memoirs of some interest to your newsletter. I think all of this Hart line descends from Thomas Hart (b.1607 ) of Ipswich MA. However , I am not positive. This information came from the papers of David Charles Hart,but I’m not sure where he got the information. If any of the other readers of your newsletter recognize this line I would love to correspond with them. Again I hope you can use this information . I always enjoy your newsletter. Sincerely, Rebecca A. Hart-Hand :