hardin co From: [email protected] Incidentally, there are fifty-six Harts indexed in "Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin County Kentucky," and three in "Haycraft's History of Elizabethtown." "Two Centuries..." includes: John, John (another), John H., John Wilson and Jonathan. All of them were born in the 1800's, most children or grandchildren of Henry Hart, Jr. his father was Henry, Sr. But one John Hart stands out: p. 451) "Many settlers from Pennsylvania were moving down into the new lands in western and southwestern *Virginia*. JOHN HART, a hunter, piloted a party to the land which had been granted Benjamin Border (92,500 acres) about 1734. The land, known as Borden's Grant, was sold to settlers and was pretty well taken up within a few years. The surveying was finished in December 1738." also a John Hart, not indexed, who was listed in the 1810 census of Hardin County. He would have been born somewhere between 1765 and 1785, according to the numbers: JOHN HART Household 1 free white male under age 10 1 free white male age 10 to 15 1 free white male age 26 to 44 1 free white female age 16 to 25 Hart heads of household in the 1810 census: Moses Hart, Isiah [Isaiah?] Hart, and Aaron Hart. On the 1800 census for Hardin Co, Kentucky, there is a Josiah Hart, name only, no details. But I understand the 1800 census was a sloppy effort at best; several people were not accounted for. Many Hardin residents moved back and forth from surrounding counties, Meade and Breckinridge. >From p. 449 in "Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Kentucky," "Samuel Haycraft in his 'History of Elizabethtown' wrote in describing the early settlers in Severns Valley: 'the forts formed a triangle, equidistant a mile apart. Those forts were subject to frequent attacks by the Indians. Soon after a hardy set of adventurers came in and settled around the forts, consisting of the Millers, Vertreeses, VANMETERS, HARTS, Shaws, Dyers, and others, who assisted in repelling the attacks of the Indians.' "Several branches of the Hart family were in America at very early dates, and it is believed that the ancestors of Silas Hart of this sketch came to Kentucky from Washington County, Pennsylvania. Other Harts were located in Virginia in the 1700's and likely trace to a common ancestor." "Haycraft's History of Elizabethtown": p. 165) "John Ferguson was also a blacksmith -- cut no considerable figure except that he was the grandfather of Usher F. Linder, Esq., at this time [1869] in Chicago. Linder became a lawyer of considerable eminence, was an able debater and sometimes eloquent. He practiced law in Hardin (County) for several years and then left for Charlestown, Ill., in which State he served in the Legislature and was elected Attorney General of the State." Linda