Howkins Hart (abt. 1737 - 1817)

Born about 3 Jan 1737 in Southington, Hartford Co., Connecticut, American Colonies [uncertain]

Husband of Huldah (Woodruff) Hart — married 23 Mar 1758 (to 31 Dec 1785) in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut, American Colonies

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Biography

HART, HOWKINS -- Corporal in Capt. David Sloper's Co., Major Sheldon's Regt. "Light Horse". The regiment was on the retreat with Washington from New York through New Jersey; later he was a Lieutenant in the same Regiment. Was then of Southington Parish; came to Barkhamsted about 1789, married Ruth Chubb and lived in southwest part of town. He became reduced in circumstances and was forced to lease his property and mortgage his growing crops. Died in 1817, buried at Center Cem.-- no stone. No trace of him found in New Center Cem.^[1]

LIEUTENANT HAWKINS HART, Southington, second son of Hawkins Hart, of the same town, and his wife, Susannah (Merriam), born January 3d, 1736-7, at Southington, and baptized there by Rev. Jeremiah Curtiss, May 1st, 1737; married March 23d, 1758, Huldah, daughter of David Woodruff, and his wife, Mary (Porter), born 1737, and baptized June 26th, 1737, in Southington, by the pastor, Rev. J. Curtiss. They lived on East Street, in the house owned and occupied by his son-in-law, Amos Woodruff. It stood a few feet south of the residence of Truman Barnes in 1869. His wife died December 31st, 1795, aged 58 years, when he second married, Ruth Chubs, of Barkhamsted, Conn., to which place he removed. He bore the military rank of lieutenant. In 1776 the General Assembly ordered six battalions to be raised, to march immediately to New York and join the continental army. Hawkins Hart was appointed first lieutenant in the seventh company, Fifth Battalion, under William M. Douglas, colonel; Nathaniel Bunnel, captain; Thomas Lyman, second lieutenant; Miles Hull, ensign. They had but one child, Phebe, who married Amos Woodruff. In 1781 her father gave her, for love, four acres of his home lot, reserving to himself the fruit of thirteen apple trees. He subsequently, in 1788, sold his son-in-law other portions of his farm. He lived in the town of Berlin January 26th, 1800, as appears from his deed to Amos Woodruff bearing that date.

THEIR CHILD, BEING THE FIFTH GENERATION. 1827. Phebe, born  ; married , Amos Woodruff.

[From "THE CATALOGUE OF BARKHAMSTED, CT MEN WHO SERVED IN THE VARIOUS WARS 1775 TO 1865" BY Wallace Lee, Meriden, CT, published in 1897: Hawkins Hart was a Corporal in captain David Sloper's Company, Major Sheldon's Regiment, "Light Horse." This regiment was on retreat with Washington from New York through New Jersey; later was Lieutenant in the same regiment. he was then of Southington Parish and came to Barkhamsted about 1789 or '90. He built and lived in the house where Edar Taylor lived in later years, Southwest District. He may have become very reduced in circumstances, as in later years he leased his land and mortgaged his growing crops. His wife was Ruth Chubb and he died about 1817 and was buried at the Center. No stone.

It appears that the information in entry #1728 above may be in error, it appears to contain the military history of Hawkins Hart, #1723, instead of Hawkins Hart, #1728. But the catalogue by Wallace Lee may also be incorrect, if Hawkins Hart simply leased or sold his farm to his son in law. he was buried in the "Old Cemetery" which is now under the waters of the ]

• 2 pp 385- 366

Sources

• Hart family genealogy site, https://www.mv.com/ipusers/harts/family/harts/book/p386.html

• Our Ancestry - Volume 2, by Jan B. Young, lulu.com, 2010, page 34, https://books.google.com/books?id=3AsNAwAAQBAJ

• Surnames from S-Z plus supplementary notes and lists, by Jan B. Young, lulu.com, 2010, page 66, https://books.google.com/books?id=VzqsAgAAQBAJ

Footnotes

1. ↑ Barkhamsted Heritage: Culture and Industry in a Rural Connecticut Town edited by Richard G. Wheeler and George Hilton (c) 1975, page 85

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