John Montgomery Hart (1778 - 1865)

Born 15 Oct 1778 in Hopewell, Mercer, New Jersey, United States

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Died 30 Mar 1865 at age 86 in Green Township, Randolph, West Virginia, United States

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Biography

John Montgomery Hart's mother was pregnant June 22–24, 1778, when George Washington & 12,000 Revolutionary War soldiers camped, refreshed themselves, & drilled on grandfather John Hart's New Jersey farm prior to the June 28th Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth 30 miles away.

John was eldest child of Edward Hart, son of John Hart, New Jersey signator of the Declaration of Independence, who died 1779, the year after John Montgomery Hart was born. Father Edward Hart was 8th of 13th children.

Edward Hart (1755-1812) served in the Revolutionary War for New Jersey. In 1785, Edward and his younger brother Daniel Hart moved from New Jersey to the Tygarts River Valley, Randolph County, Virginia (now West Virginia); one of the first settlements west of the Alleghenies. The settlement was first called Edmunton, in honor of Edmund Jennings Randolph, the governor of Virginia, for whom Randolph County was also named. Edmunton's name would become the village of Beverly 1787, chartered 1790. In 1788 John Wilson asked the county court to prosecute Edward Hart for importing negroes into the state, contrary to law. Edward's will 1811 leaves stuff to family.

John Montgomery Hart married his second cousin Deborah Stout 1803, back at the Hart homestead in Hopewell, New Jersey. commissioner of revenue 1814, sheriff 1829

Widow Nancy Ann Stout Hart pension 1840 Randolph Co.

Hart line John Montgomery < Edward < John signer < Edward (1687-1752) < John (1636-1712) < John (1595-1671) < John (b 1555-). The Hart surname Y-DNA project has 294 members who've tested to haplogroups E, G, I, J, N, Q, T, R1a, & R1b/R-M269.

Sources

• John Montgomery Hart, Find-a-Grave memorial #94798656; entered by Rodney Weese on 4 Aug 2012 : accessed by J. Ricketts on 20 Sep 2015.

• http://www.linkpendium.com/hunterdon-nj-genealogy/

• History of Hunterdon and Somerset counties, New Jersey, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers

• http://www.linkpendium.com/mercer-nj-genealogy/bios/

• History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey 1883

• http://www.dsdi1776.com/signers-by-state/john-hart/

• History of East Amwell 1700-1800, Bicentennial p. 176

• "Early Settlers in Trenton and Ewing" by Cooley 1883; P. 11 2, 113

• Genealogy of Early Settlers in Trenton and Ewing, "Old Hunterdon County," New Jersey

• http://www.linkpendium.com/randolph-wv-genealogy/

• A History of Randolph County, West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Bosworth, Albert Squire, b. 1859

Published 1916

• The History of Randolph County, West Virginia from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present, Embracing Records of All the Leading Families 1898 Hu Maxwell

• "The Harts of Randolph" 1976 by Katherine Frame in Flemingt on Hist. Lib.p. 20

• Death Record, Randolph County Court House, Randolph County, West Virginia