Samuel Hart (1738 - 1813)

Born 20 Jan 1738 in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Rebekah (Norton) Hart — married before 10 Oct 1757 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 21 Aug 1813 at age 75 in Berlin, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Samuel Hart was born in Farmington, Connecticut, on 20 January 1737/8, recorded as the son of Lt. Samuel Hart and Mary Hart. ^[1] Some secondary sources give the date of his birth as the following day, 21 January.^[2][3] He was born in the part of Farmington that is now the Kensington section of the town of Berlin.

His parents were Lt. Samuel Hart and Mary (Hooker) Hart, who had married in Farmington on 25 December 1723.^[1]

Death

21 August 1812^[2]

Marriages

First, 10 October 1757, Rebecca Norton, daughter of Charles and Rebecca (Munson) Norton.^[4]

Second, 4 October 1770, Lydia Hinsdale, daughter of Captain John and Elizabeth (Cole) Hinsdale.^[4][3]

Children

Children of the first marriage, as listed by Andrews in the Hart genealogy (page 56), were:

1. Rebecca, born Jan. 30th, 1760, married Wm. Cook, of Danbury.
2. Samuel, born May 17th, 1761, married, April 8th, 1791, Mary Wilcox.
3. Charlotte, born Oct. 17th, 1762, married, Dec. 2d, 1784, Orrin Lee.
4. Asahel, born May 6th, 1764, married, Sept. 23d, 1790, Abigail Cowles.
5. Anna, born Feb. 16th, 1766, died of consumption, March 25th, 1784, aged 18 years.
6. Jesse, born Jan. 3d, 1768, married, Nov. 28th, 1792, Lucy Beckley.
7. James, born March 5th, 1769, died April 12th, 1770-1

Children of the second marriage, from that same source, were:

1. Mary, born Sept. 23d, 1771, married John Lee.
2. John, born Jan. 23d, 1773, died Sept. 13th, 1816, aged 44 years.
3. James, born Dec. 26th, 1774, died Dec. 25th, 1796, at Staunton, Delaware, aged 22 years.
4. Theodore, born Aug. 30th, 1776, died Nov. 1st, 1815, at Petersburg, Va., aged 39 years.
5. Lydia, born Sept. 18th, 1778, married Elisha Treat.
6. Betsey, born Sept. 21st, 1781, at the age of 11 years.
7. Huldah, born July 12th, 1783, died Jan. 31st, 1784.
8. Nancy, born March 8th, 1785, married Joshua Simmons.
9. Emma, born Feb. 23d, 1787, married in 1812^[5] to John Willard, M.D.
10. Almira, born July 13th, 1793, married, Oct. 5th, 1817, Simeon Lincoln; second, John Phelps.

Research Notes

Note added here, apparently related to some other Samuel Hart:

Capt. Samuel Hart was a member of the Connecticut State Legislature in 1855, and was for many years the town clerk and treasurer of Cromwell, Connecticut.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Farmington, page 72.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Andrews, Pages 47 and 55. 56.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Treat: Page 65
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Andrews, pages 55-56
5. ↑ This date is wrong: they married in 1809.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #43432813
• Andrews, Alfred. Genealogical history_of Deacon Stephen Hart and_his descendants. (The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., New Britain, Conn. 1875)
• Treat, John Harvey . The Treat Family, A Genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat for Fifteen Generations (Salem Press, Salem, Massachusetts, 1893)
• THE TREAT FAMILY
• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls