James Hard II (1694 - bef. 1765)

Born 7 Jan 1694 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Kimberley) Hard — married 19 Jan 1714 in Connecticut

Descendants

Died before 22 Dec 1765 before age 71 in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

James was the son of James & Elizabeth (Tomlinson) Hard

He married Hannah Kimberley in CT - parents of Elizabeth, Hannah, Abner, James, Amos, Prudence, Abraham, Ann, John & others

His will is dated 14 December 1764 in Newtown and proved on 13 June 1766 in Danbury. He mentions his wife Hannah, and his children, Abner, James, Abraham, Amos, and Zadock, Lois, wife of Nathan Sherwood of Ridgefield, Ann, wife of Andrew Hawley of New Milford, Elizabeth, wife of Elnathan Nichols of Stratford, the children of Prudence Moss, wife of William Moss ( Sarah & Prudence Moss), and his grandchildren, Elizabeth Foot, George, James, and John Foot, children of his deceased daughter Hannah Foot.^[1]

In 1766, his children, Abner Hard, James Hard, Abraham Hard, Amos Hard, Zadock Hard, Nathan Sherwood (Lois), Andrew Hawley (Ann), and his widow, Hannah all signed an estate distribution agreement.^[2]

In 1766, some of his heirs made a complaint to the probate court against his executors, Abner Hard, and James Hard did not take an inventory of his estate.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ “Probate records v. 1-3 1744-1782”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-892K-TN9D : 16 February 2023), FHL microfilm 007627321, image 178-179, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 1, 1739-1767, Pages 324 & 326.
2. ↑ “Probate records v. 1-3 1744-1782”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-892K-TFTN : 23 February 2023), FHL microfilm 007627321, image 309, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 2, 1745-1775, Pages 209.
3. ↑ “Probate records v. 1-3 1744-1782”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-892K-TFRR : 23 February 2023), FHL microfilm 007627321, image 311, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 2, 1745-1775, Pages 213.

• "Connecticut, Church Records, 1660-1955," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGR1-ZVJR : 3 October 2019), James Hard, 22 Dec 1765; citing Death, Fairfield, Connecticut, Connecticut State Library, Hartford.
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Genealogy of the Kimberly Family (George Banta, Menasha, Wisconsin, 1950) Page 20. Page 260 - vol 5, p 1222.
• Johnson, Ezra Levan. Newtown's History and Historian, Ezra Levan Johnson (Newtown, Conn., 1917) "Descendants of Some of Newtown's Earliest Settlers", Page 80.
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• Wolff, Kathryn Downs. The James Hard Family of England, and Derby and Newtown, Connecticut, to Five Generations, Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Stamford, Conn., May 2022) Vol. 64, No. 4, Page 123.