---------- > From: Bob Francis <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [KYBATH] Nicholas Hart Letters, part two > Date: Friday, June 16, 2000 9:27 AM > > THE HART FAMILY > Letter by Nathaniel Hart to Draper 1842. 2CC27-2 > > Thomas, John, Benjamin, David, Nathaniel and Susannah Hart were raised > in Hanover county, Virginia, and about the middle of the last century > removed to North Carolina (then a now country). Thomas settled near > Hillsborough. David and my father, Nathaniel, settled in what is now > Caswell county. My father built the Red House and lived there until 1779 > when he removed to Kentucky. David Hart lived and died there, his family > are living on lands in Tennessee and Kentucky. John Hart died in early > life, leaving one child, Susannah, who married John Luttrell, who was > killed in an engagement with the Tories and his widow married Doctor > John Umstead. Benjamin Hart removed to Georgia and died there. Susannah > married James Gooch and died leaving two children, James and Nancy who > married Jesse Benton, the father of Thomas Hart Benton and Jesse Benton, > Colonel Thomas Hart came to Kentucky in the fall 1775 and David Hart in > the spring 1776. My father was here more than half his time from the > spring of 1775 to the fall of 1779, he had travelled the Wilderness road > 14 times, he was killed on the 22nd of July 1782 at Boonsborough. > > LETTER BY NATHANIEL HART TO DRAAPER. 1853. 2CC29 > > Col Thomas Hart was born and raised in Hanover county, Virginia, being > the eldest of five sons and one daughter of Thomas Hart of Hanover. The > daughter being the grandmother of Col Thomas Benton of Missouri. He > removed to Orange county North Carolina about the year 1760 where he > married a lady of fortune and where he continued to reside until the > invasion of that State by Cornwallis in 1780 or 81, when he made a > hurried sale of his lands and removed through Virginia to Hagerstown in > Maryland, where he made a temporary residence with the view of removing > the next spring to Kentucky. But the death of my grandfather by the > Indians just before the fatal battle ofthe Blue Licks, deterred him from > his favorite purpose until the spring of 1794. As the older members of > his family were daughters, my father (then 24 years of age) escorted his > uncles family from Maryland to Kentucky and upon their arrival at > Lexington, immediately started on Waynes Campaign, where he acted as Aid > de Camp to Gen Todd of the Kentucky Volunteers in the battle of the > Fallen Timbers. Col Thomas Harts son, Capt Nathaniel Gray Hart, was > afterwards killed near Waynes Battlefield, at the battle of the Raisin > in 1813. Col Thomas Hart died in 1807. > > -- > Bob Francis, 1920A Butner St., Ft. Eustis, VA 23604 > My Homepage is: http://www.shawhan.com > Ruddell's Fort Page: http://www.shawhan.com/ruddlesfort.html > Early Bourbon Co. Fam. Pg.: http://www.shawhan.com/bourbonfamilies.html > Bourbon Co., Ky., Bios: http://www.shawhan.com/biographies.html > Shawhan Genealogy: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~shawhan/Homepage.html > >