Ancestral Glimpses » John Hart Sr. (1651-1714)

Persoonlijke gegevens John Hart Sr. 

• Alternatieve naam: John Hart
• Hij is geboren op 16 november 1651 in Whitney, Oxfordshire, ENGLAND.
• Hij werd gedoopt op 24 augustus 1651 in Eynsford, Kent, ENGLAND.

  Let op: Gedoopt (24 augustus 1651) voor geboren (16 november 1651).

• Gedoopt (op 8-jarige leeftijd of later) door het priesterschapsgezag van de LDS-kerk op 30 augustus 1933 in Saint George, Washington County, Utah, USA.
• Geïmmigreerd op 24 oktober 1682 vanuit New Castle County, Pennsylvania (now Delaware), from Witney, Oxfordshire, England.
• Beroepen:
• op 10 MAR 1682–83 member of the assembly in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, British America.
• farmer in Poquessing, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, British America.
• Geloof:
• in het jaar 1675 a member of the Witney Society of Friends (Quaker) meeting.
• in het jaar 1691 a member of the Keithian Society.
• in het jaar 1697 a member of the Pennypack Baptist Church.

  Info fr Rush Family Pedigree.Mary Hicks,Fowlerville,Mi.Virkus Compendium Vol 6,P316.Rush Family,P2,was 1st a Quaker,2nd Keithian,then a Baptist.being a noted preacher of that denomination.

• Woonachtig:
• rond 1698: Warminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, British America.
• tussen 1713 en 1714: Warminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, British America.
• (Land Owner In) op 11 oktober 1681 in Missouri, Verenigde Staten: purchased from William Penn for five shillings of lawful money in England,.
• Hij is overleden september 1714 in Warminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, British America, hij was toen 62 jaar oud.

  Oorzaak: from an accidental, fatal shot

• Hij is begraven september 1714 in Lower Dublin Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, British AmericaPennypack Baptist Cemetery.
• Alternatief: Hij is begraven september 1714 in Pennypack, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, British America.
• Boedelverdeling op 5 november 1714 naar Bucks County, Pennsylvania, British America.
• Testament op 14 september 1713 naar Warminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, British America.

  The will of John HART, Warminster Twp Bucks Co PA File# 148,Doylstown, PA.
  SOURCES:
  THE HART FAMILY by American Genealogical Research Institute,Washington, DC,
  PAGE 29.
  THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY, Vol XVII p 326 &327.
  THE HART FAMILY by W.W. Davis, 1867
  COLONIAL FAMILIES OF PHILADELPHIA, Vol 1, 1911
  "By deeds of lease and release dated October 12, 1681, he (JohnHart) purchased of William Penn, of Worminghurst, county of Surrey,England, Proprietary of Pennsylvania, 1000 acres of land to be laid outin the Province of Pennsylvania." "John Hart was a member of ColonialAssembly from Philadelphia county, 1683-1684, and signed the first "Formof Government" 2mo. 2, 1683."

• Alternatief: Testament op 14 september 1713 naar Bucks County, Pennsylvania, British America.
• Een kind van Christopher Hart en Mary Beckley
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 22 mei 2015.

Gezin van John Hart Sr.

Hij is getrouwd met Susannah Rush.

SOURCE Barbara Long Emery marriage date & place

Marriage: 16 September 1685 in Byberry, Bucks, Pennsylvania
(IGI: film 1903675)

Marriage: 16 September 1683 of Farmington, Oxford, Connecticut
(IGI: batch F500584; source call 1396443)

Zij zijn getrouwd op 16 september 1683 te Byberry Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, British America, hij was toen 31 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Isabella Hart  1680-????
2. Joseph Hart  1683-1714 
3. John Hart  1684-???? 
4. Thomas Hart  ± 1686-± 1790 
5. Mary Hart  ± 1688-1721
6. Josiah Hart  1690-1721

Notities over John Hart Sr.

Yes, these are probably more distant relatives. This John Hart is probably the son of John Hart the elder who came to PA in 1682 as a Quaker preacher - he had meetings in his house in Byberry in 1682+. There was a split in the Quaker group and John Hart the elder went with the group following Keith. Later when Keith reconciled with the main Quaker group, John Hart the elder became a Baptist, he preached some, probably in the Pennypac Church because his wife Susannah Rush Hart is buried there and John the elder may be buried there also-he died in 1714. I believe Susanna died in 1720's or 30's. The John Hart you mentioned had a brother Thomas who is my ancestor. Thomas and John lived on farms in Johnsville near Warminster where John the elder had a 500 acre farm. Thomas went off to Shenandoah Valley, VA around 1734-5 and his brother John stayed in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. I am trying to find out if Thomas had a son named James. Do you know if there are any Pennypac Church records that date in the 1690's? Thanks.
-- John Hart Miller 3 Mar 2004
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FHL Hart Historical Notes Mar/April 1995 p.10
"Hart, John (1651-1714); son of Christopher and Mary-) came from England to Byberry, Phila. Co., PA., 1682; mem 1st Pa. Assembly, 1683; signer 1st charter of govt., granted colonists by William Penn; m. 1683 Susannah (d. 1725) dau. John Rush (qv).
Source: IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR S, A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750, edited by Frederick Adams Virkus, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1986."

SOURCE Barbara Long Emery birth date & place, death date & place
GENEALOGIES OF PENNSYLVANIA FAMILIES, DESCENDANTS OF JOHN RUSH, p.661
"John Hart was educated a Quaker, but became a Keithian in 1691 and a Baptist in 1697, being a preacher among each of these sects, and much respected for his piety."
5 children: Joseph, John, Thomas, Josiah, Mary
planter and high sheriff of Bucks co.
Will book 3 of Bucks co. p.89 proved April 19, 1763

genforum #1962
Joseph b. 1714 d. 1714
Mary b. bef 1721 d. 1721
Josiah
John b. 16 Jul 1684 d. 22 Mar 1763 Westminster, Bucks,PA
Thomas b. 1685
John member of Colonial Assembly from Phil. co. 1683

Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~onebigfamily/hart/aqwg01.htm#33553
13. John HART (Christopher, John, John, Christopher) was born 16 Nov 1651 in Witney, O, England. He died Sep 1714 in Warminster, Twp, BC, Penn and was buried in Pennepack(?), Penn.
John married Susannah RUSH, daughter of John"Old Trooper" RUSH and Susannah LUCAS, on 1683 in Bucks Co., Penn. Susannah was born 26 Dec 1656 in Guilsborough, Northampton, England. She died 27 Feb 1724 in Poetquessink, Penn.
They had the following children:
Thomas HART died about 1790.
Josiah HART was born in Byberry TWP, Bucks Co., Penn.
Josiah married Nancy WATTS on 11 Jan 1776 in Southhampton, Bucks Co., Pa.
Joseph HART was born 1683 in Byberry TWP., Bucks Co., Pa. He died 1714.
Joseph married Sarah STOUT. Sarah was born 2 Apr 1713 in Byberry, Phil, Penn.
Mary HART was born about 1688 in Byberry TWP, Bucks Co., Pa. She died 1721. Mary married Thomas DUNGAN on 28 Aug 1720.
John HART was born 16 Jun 1684 and died 22 Mar 1763.

genforum #347
John Hart b. 16 Nov. 1651 England mar. Susannah Rush b. 26 Dec. 1656 Oxfordshire, England children:
Thomas Hart b. 1686 Bucks Co., Pa. or 1685, Byberry, Phil., Pa. married Esther Myles bet 1710 - 1712
John Hart, Jr. b. 16 Jul 1684 Byberry, Pa. married Eleanor Crispin Nov. 25, 1708
Joseph Hart b. 1690 d 1714 Warminster, Bucks, Pa. mar. Sarah Stout
Josiah Hart b. 1689 Mary Hart b. 1689 d. 1721 Pennypack, Pa. died unmarried
References: The History of Bucks Co., Pa. ... Colonial Families of Philadelphia Vol. 1, pg. 373. History of Pennsylvania by Robert Proud. History of the Hart Family of Warminster, Bucks Co., Pa by W.W.H. Davis pub. in 1887

GENFORUM Hart #7259A History of the Townships of BYBERRY and MORELAND in Philadelphia, Pa., From Their Earliest Settlement by the Whites to the Present Time. Joseph C. Martindale, M. D., Philadelphia; T. Ellwood Zell, 17 & 19 S. Sixth St., 1867 page 209 - Biographical Sketches JOHN HART John Hart, born at Whitney, in Oxfordshire, England, November 16, 1651 (O.S.), was among the earliest settlers, having come over with Penn, in 1682. He purchased four hundred and eighty-four acres of land, bordering on the Poquessing Creek, in the southern part of Byberry, on which he settled and spent several years of his life. He was a man of rank, character, and reputation, had considerable influence, and was times a leading member of Byberry Meeting, and at one time considered a good preacher. He manifested great interest in promoting the views and doctrines of George Keith, his name being attached to many of the papers published by that party against Friends; and the separation, all his nearest neighbors, and some of the more distant, joined him in opposing the principles maintained by Friends. After the separation, in 1691, he preached to a society of Keithians that met at the house of John Swift, in Southampton; but in [page 210] 1697, this meeting was broken up, and he, along with many others, embraced the principles of the Baptists, and was baptized by Thomas Rutter. In 1702, they joined the meeting at Pennypack, where Hart became assistant minister, but was never ordained. He was, however, considered a pious Christian and a good preacher, and continued to officiate at that meeting, and at a Baptist Church in Philadelphia, from 1707 to 1720. He sold all his possessions in Byberry in 1705, and removed to Southampton. His wife was Susannah Rush, by whom he had five children: John, Joseph, Thomas, Josiah, and Mary, who married into the Crispin, Miles, Paulin, and Dungan families, and mostly settled Lower Dublin. [HenryHart.FTW]

John Hart, member first Assembly called by William Penn in 1683.

He was educated as a Quaker, later becoming a Keithian in 1691 and a Baptist in 1697. He was a preacher among each of the sects and much respected for his piety.

He was accidentally shot and killed in Virginia.

Pennsylvania Wills, 1682-1834; Bucks County Will Abstracts, Will Book #1, Page 11. John Hart of Warmister Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, September 14, 1713. Proved November 5, 1714:

Wife -- 200 acres heretofore given to son John Hart. Son Thomas 200 acres as per agreement.
Son Josiah, lots in Philadelphia.
Daughter Mar,
Son John, sole executor.
Witnesses: John Morris, Thomas Reed, Joseph Todd

FROM ENGLAND TO AMERICA:

John Hart was a Quaker who emigrated from Witney, Oxfordshire, ENGLAND to Philadelphia in 1682. Around 1850, descendants of John Hart settled in Millbrook Township, Peoria County, Illinois. The story follows 170 years and 5 generations of Harts from their arrival in Philadelphia to their settlement in Millbrook.

Pennsylvania was granted to William Penn by Charles II to repay debts owed to William's father, Admiral Sir William Penn. It was a proprietary colony and had more freedom than crown colonies. William Penn offered complete religious liberty and easy terms for land which resulted in thousands of immigrates to Pennsylvania, mostly Quakers, from ENGLAND, WALES, GERMANY, FRANCE, and HOLLAND.

John Hart was born in 1651, the son of Christopher Hart and Mary Beckley. is aname appears in the Witney Society of Friends meeting records starting in 1675. When William Penn announced he was starting a new colony, John Hart decided to seek his fortune in the new world. He purchased from Penn 1,000 acres of land to be located in the new colony. John and his sister, Mary, left Witney early in 1682. It is a family legend that John and his sister arrived in Philadelphia two months before Penn who arrived in October 1682.

On his arrival, John Hart settled on 500 acres on the Poquessing in Byberry Township. He also was granted 500 acres in Warminster Township, Bucks County. In September 1683, John Hart married Susannah Rush, who was the daughter of William and Aurelia Rush. John Rush, the father of William, commanded a troop of horse soldiers in Cromwell's Army. Friends monthly meeting records show John and Susannah were engaged to be married in 1681 prior to leaving ENGLAND.

John Hart was active in Colony government and in the Society of Friends. He was elected a member of the First Assembly for the County of Philadelphia. His name is on the first Charter of Government, dated February 25, 1683, which Penn granted the Colonists. He was a leading Quaker until the George Keith schism of 1691. He took sides with Keith against Penn and left the Friends along with Keith, Rush, and many other families. In 1697, John joined the Pennypack Baptist Church. Sometime between 1693 and 1698 he sold his Byberry estate and moved to Warminster Township. He died there in 1714.

John and Susannah had five children - John, Thomas, Joseph, Josiah, and Mary. John (1684-1763) married Eleanor Crispin who was granddaughter of William Crispin, an officer under Admiral Penn and first cousin to William Penn. John was Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff, and Coroner. In 1750, he erected the stone Warminster Family Mansion which today is in splendid condition. It is now the home of Donald Brennan and Dorothy Rose-Brennan at 1145 Charter Road, Warminster, Pennslyvania. One of his sons, Colonel Joseph Hart, was very prominent in the Revolutionary Ward and another, Oliver Hart, was the Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Charleston, South Carolina for 30 years. Joseph Hart married Elizabeth Coreen.

John and Susannah Hart's children married into the Crispin, Miles, Paulin and Dungan families, from whom have descended a numerous issue in Philadelphia and Bucks counties.

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John HART Sr [S37] was born on 16 Nov 1651 in Witney, Oxfordshire, England. b. Mar 26, 1651 according to the records of Dennis Hart. Christened in member of the Society of Friends. Died in Sep 1714 in Warminster, Twp, BC, Penn. d. in Byberry Township, Philadelphia according to records of Dennis Hart. Buried in Pennepack(?), Penn. GENEALOGY OF HART FAMILY. BY W.W. HART DAVIS PA MAG HIST
From Philadelphia to Millbrook

John Hart was a Quaker who emigrated Witney, Oxfordshire, England to Philadelphia in 1682. Around 1850 descendants of John Hart settled in Millbrook Township, Peoria County, Illinois. This story follows one hundred seventy years and six generations of Harts from their arrival in Philadelphia to their settlement in Millbrook.

Pennsylvania was granted to William Penn by Charles II to repay debts owed to William's father, Admiral Sir William Penn. It was a proprietary colony and had more freedom than crown colonies. William Penn offered complete religious liberty and easy terms for land that resulted in thousands of immigrates to Pennsylvania, mostly Quakers, from England, Wales, Germany, France and Holland.

John Hart was born in 1651, the son of Christian Hart and Mary Bleckley. His name appears in the Witney Society of Friends meeting records starting in 1675. When William Penn announced he was starting a new colony, John Hart decided to seek his fortune in the new world. He purchased from Penn one thousand acres of land to be located in the new colony after Hart's arrival. John and his sister Mary left Witney early in 1682. It is a family legend that John and his sister arrived in Philadelphia two months before Penn who arrived in October 1682.

On his arrival, John Hart settled on five hundred acres on the Poquessing in Byberry Township. He also was granted five hundred acres in Warminster Township, Bucks County. In September 1683 John Hart married Susannah Rush, who was the daughter of William and Aurelia Rush. John Rush, the father of William, commanded a troop of horse in Cromwell's army. Friends' Monthly Meeting records show John and Susannah were engaged to be married in 1681 prior to leaving England.

John Hart was active in Colony government and in the Society of Friends. He was elected a member of the first Assembly from the county of Philadelphia, and his name is on the first charter of government, dated February 25, 1683, which Penn granted the colonists. He was a leading Quaker until the George Keith schism of 1691. He took sides with Keith against Penn and left the Friends along with Keith, Rush, and many other families. In 1697 John joined the Pennypack Baptist Church. Some time between 1693 and 1698 he sold his Byberry estate and moved to Warminster Township, where he died in 1714.

John and Susannah had five children -- John, Thomas, Joseph, Josiah and Mary. John (1684-1763) married Eleanor Crispin who was granddaughter of William Crispin an officer under Admiral Penn and first cousin to William Penn. John was justice of the peace, high sheriff and coroner. In 1750 he erected the stone Warminster family mansion, which today is in splendid condition, the home of Donald Brennan and Dorothy Rose-Brennan at 1145 Charter Road, Warminster, Pennsylvania. One of his sons, Colonel Joseph Hart, was very prominent in the Revolutionary War, and another Oliver Hart was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Charleston, South Carolina, for thirty years.

Joseph Hart married Elizabeth Coreen.
Nothing is known of Josiah Hart.
Mary Hart died in 1721, unmarried.

Thomas Hart

Thomas Hart, the second son of John Hart (1651-1714) and Susannah Rush, was born in 1686 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His date and place of death are unknown. He married Ester Myles and they were known to have three children. These were sons James, Thomas, and Miles.

Thomas Hart lived after his youth in Warminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In 1735 Thomas Hart of Warminster was given a bond signed by Jost Hite for 1500 acres of land on the Elk Branch, in present day Jefferson County, West Virginia. This is at Dunfield, five miles northwest of Harpers Ferry. Records showing him living there as early as 1742. Records place his sons Thomas and Miles there also, but not James. The last known of the father Thomas was when he left for the Carolinas in 1754. This departure was understandable as it was at the start of the French and Indian War during which there were many Indiana raids on inhabitants of the Shenandoah valley.

James Hart

It is believed that James Hart (c.1715-1793) is the son of Thomas Hart, but documented direct evidence proving this is lacking. He married Rebecca Finney about 1735. The Finney family is related to the Hart family of Warminster by two marriages of the Crispin and Dugan families. In 1737 James and Rebecca were living at the present site of Reading, Pennsylvania. In 1749 James was a chain carrier for land surveyed on Holman's Creek; and in 1751, land was surveyed for James Hart "where he now lives." This land is on Holman's Creek three miles east of the present town of Forestville, Shenandoah County, Virginia, and sixty miles southwest of Dunfield.

In 1753 a grant was entered for our James Hart on the Eno River in Orange County, North Carolina. Records show him living there in 1755. The North Carolina government in the 1760s was very oppressive. Imported goods, property and legal papers were exorbitantly taxed. The governor's deputies seized cattle and horses and grossly unvalued them for unpaid taxes. In 1767 Joseph Maddock and other Quakers applied for grants of land in the frontier territory of Georgia. They received them February 7, 1769. Among them were two hundred fifty acre grants made to James Hart and Thomas Hart, Samuel Hart and Peter Hart, single men, were granted one hundred acres. Joseph Maddock and Jonathan Sell led forty families by oxcart and horse on the three hundred mile trip from North Carolina to Wrightsborough in late 1769. An additional one hundred acres were granted to Samuel in 1772 and to Peter in 1774. This indicates they were married after the original grants. It appears that James and sons Thomas and Peter returned to Orange County, North Carolina during or shortly after the Revolutionary War. James died in 1793, Thomas about 1830, and Peter in 1806, all in Orange County.

Samuel Hart

Samuel Hart, the son of James Hart and Rebecca Finney, was born in 1746. He settled in Wrightsborough when twenty-three years old and lived there for eighteen years until he died in 1787 He married Ester Lowe in 1771 and they had seven children. In addition to two hundred acres of land, Samuel owned Wrightsborough town lot # 52.

When Samuel died in June 1787 at age forty-one, he left his wife Ester to support five children - Isaac, William, Rebecca, Thomas and Finney, ages six months to fourteen years. Two other children, James eleven and Grace two, had died within one month of each other the prior fall. In August 1788 at the Monthly Meeting of Wrightsborough Friends, Ester "Requested To be joined in Membership with Us, which hath been Some time Under The Care of Women Friends, and They having Signified Their Unity Therewith; with which Request this Meeting Likewise hath Unity and Receives her Into Membership according To her desire With her Small Children Namely Isaac, William, Rebecca, Thomas and Fenny for Whom She hath Likewise Requested."

In December 1789 Ester Hart married Amos Green. In February 1790 "The Friends appointed To Settle the Matter between Heirs of Samuel Hart deceased and Amos Green Report They have Complied with Their appointment."

Wrightsborough was located about twenty miles west of Augusta in a virgin forest of trees with six to eight foot diameter trunks. "After taking possession of their lands, the first thing the Quakers had to do was cut the trees to build a shelter and make a clearing in the woods. This done, they 'girdled' the rest of the trees on the land intended for farming, and planted their seed around the stumps in holes dug with a hoe. The earliest types of crude shelters were sapling 'lean-tos', shingled with slabs of bark or white oak shakes. These were purely temporary in nature, and the next step was to build a log cabin for winter occupancy while they waited for lumber to be cut and seasoned for their permanent homes. Log cabins would be utilized then as sheds or stables."

Many of the creeks in Wrightsborough Township are named for the families living on them. Creek names include Hart's, Carson's, William's and Maddock's. The stream that formed the east and southeast boundaries of the village is Middle Creek

The early years were rough due to Indian troubles. Many of the grantees did not settle on their land within the prescribed period. And about one-third of the population left for the safety of Augusta or Savannah. However by the late summer of 1773 the situation had improved. Most returned and about twenty good houses had been built in Wrightsborough.

The Quakers were determined to give their children the best possible education, even though no public school system existed. The children were taught by an elder gathering in the larger homes or in the meetinghouse. Books were few, but highly valued.

The Quakers of Wrightsborough did not fare well during the Revolutionary War as their religious beliefs forbade them military duty. Americans thought them loyalists because they would not fight the British and the British thought they were rebels because they would not join them. The Americans held Georgia from 1776-1777 and the British 1778-1782. The British, marching up from Florida, captured Savannah in December 1778 and Augusta in early 1779. During the winter of 1780-1781, Patriots raided Wrightsborough and killed nearly fifty people thought loyal to Britain. Several companies of militia were then appointed for the defense of Wrightsborough against the "Liberty Boys". Lt. Samuel Hart was officer of one company patrolling northward of town. Interesting, while his cousin Col. Joseph Hart was fighting the British in the north, Lt. Samuel Hart was defending for them in the south.

Samuel Hart's oldest son Isaac was born in 1773 and married Sarah Buffington in Warren County, Georgia, in 1796.
William, born in 1777, married Elizabeth Twiggs Lowe in 1804 and died in 1818.
Rebecca, born in 1779, married Eli Dixon.
We shall hear more about Thomas and Finney later.

Thomas Hart

Thomas Hart, the son of Samuel Hart and Ester Lowe, was born in 1782. He married Mary Gregg, who was born in 1787, daughter of Silas Gregg and Rhoda Armstrong. Thomas was one of the early settlers in Preble County, Ohio.

Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793 and this quickly changed the farming in the south. Planters increased cotton production, which required more slaves to cultivate, and harvest. Slavery was against Quaker beliefs and they became more and more outspoken and unpopular in Georgia. Thus in the early 1800s began a Quaker migration from Wrightsborough which was complete by 1806, most going to Ohio and Indiana. One of group of forty families crossed the Ohio at Cincinnati June 12, 1805. We have no records, but perhaps the Harts were in this group.

Thomas and his brothers Isaac and Finney settled in Preble County, Ohio. Also moving there were their mother Esther Green and half-brothers Jesse and Amos Green. The Preble County 1811 Tax Lists show Thomas Hart owning Section 17, Israel Township. Israel Township is in the southwest corner of Preble County. Finney Hart, assignee of his brother Thomas Hart, entered one hundred sixty acres of land in Dixon Township, Preble County, Ohio, February 17, 1812. This was the southeast quarter Section 3. Dixon is on the north border of Israel Township.

Preble County is thirty miles north of Cincinnati on the Indiana border. Israel Township is in its southwest corner; Dixon Township is on Israel's northern border. The first settler of Dixon Township was Eli Dixon in 1804 and for whom the township was named when it was formed in 1812. Eli was from Georgia and married Rebecca Hart, the sister of Thomas Isaac, and Finney Hart.

Dixon Township has gentle rolling hills in the east and is flat and boggy in the west. It had many forests of beech wood and oak and still is prime agricultural land. At the time Eli Dixon arrived, there were many Indians passing through the area but most were not hostile. Wandering bands of Shawnees, Delawares, Miamis and Pottawatomies then regarded Preble County as a neutral hunting ground. The last Indians there were five families of Delawares who spent the winter of 1813-1814 on Four Mile Creek. They were friendly and were welcomed as a safe guard against hostile Indians. Their camp was four miles west of Finney Hart's farm in Section 3 of Dixon Township.

Another early settler of Preble County from Georgia was Robert Quinn and his family. He was originally from Maryland, spent a short time in Virginia, where his first child Jane was born, then moved to Wrightsborough, Georgia, in 1789. They moved to Ohio in 1805, first living near Germantown, five miles east of Preble County, then the next year moving ten miles to one and a half miles south of West Alexanderia. In 1807 they settled on the South East Quarter, Section 31, Twin Township, Preble County. This land is only seven miles northeast of Finney Hart's in Dixon Township. Jane Quinn married Finney in 1814.

Thomas and Mary had eight children, all born in Ohio. They were Silas (born 1810), Samuel (1811), William (1814), twins James and John (1819), Rebecca (1821), Isaac (1824), Joseph (1828) and Mary Ann (1832). Twins John died at three and James at nineteen.

In February 1837 Thomas Hart and his wife Mary deeded to their sons Samuel and William Hart for $2000 the northeast quarter of Section 12, Dixon Township. In November 1839, Samuel sold his interest in this property to William for $2000.

Thomas Hart died in 1841 in Preble County, as did his wife Mary in 1848. When Thomas died, he had no valid will. This presented a huge legal problem then, just as it would now. The oldest son, Silas, was appointed administrator of the estate. Final settlement was not until 1860, nineteen years after the death of Thomas. It is not clear why the proceedings dragged out so long. The goods and chattel were appraised in February 1842 at $2498.12. This included a $700 note dated October 2, 1837, on sons Samuel and William due in two years. There were two notes on Jacob Fox for $785, and there was $450 cash on hand in paper money. In addition there was the farm of one-quarter section (160 acres). In the final outcome the note was forgiven to Samuel and William, Silas was paid administration fees of $138.84, Isaac and Joseph shared the farm, and Rebecca and Mary Ann shared the remainder of $608.73. It appears attorneys and taxes got most of the estate.

William and Samuel left Preble County and settled in Millbrook Township, Peoria County, Illinois before 1850. The 1850 Illinois Census shows William and Samuel living adjacent to one another in Millbrook. According to the birthplaces of his children listed in the Census, he came to Illinois after 1840 but before 1844. William sold part of his Dixon Township farm (South Half Northeast Quarter Section 12) in November 1846, and the other part in October 1849.

Finney followed his nephews William and Samuel, to Millbrook in 1849. Finney purchased his first land in Millbrook (West Half of Northwest quarter, Section 20, Millbrook) on May 28, 1849.

Silas Hart never left Preble County. In 1832 he married Hannah Eslinger. Silas died in 1869 and Hannah in 1890. They had nine children, seven boys and two girls. John E., Thomas J., Isaac N., Rebecca, Alexander, Finney M., Mary Ellen and Joseph Rhue. In 1881 all of the boys were still living. Also at that time, Hannah Hart was living with her son, Alexander. Alexander Hart was the proprietor of the oldest tile factory in Preble County.

The 1850 Ohio Census for Preble County shows Isaac, Joseph and Mary Hart living together. Nearby were their brother Silas and his family.

In April 1875 Joseph Rhue Hart moved to Brimfield, Peoria County, Illinois. In 1878 he married Bellemina Eva Forney. In about 1884 they moved to Dunlap, and ten years later to Princeville, where Joseph was a masonry contractor and town sheriff. He died in Princeville in 1922. While not a Millbrook Hart, Joseph lived in adjacent townships and had plenty of contact with his brethren from Preble County.

So ends the one hundred seventy year, six generation journey of Harts from Philadelphia to Millbrook.

Dixon Smith - April 2002
Source: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/m/i/Dixon-B-Smith/FILE/0002page.html?Welcome=1068741789
Found: 13-Nov-2003 by David Lee Powell

[ElizabethAdams.ged]

John Hart was a member of the first Assembly called by William Penn in 1683. He was educated as a Quaker, but became a Keithian in 1691 and a Baptist in 1697. He was a preacher among these sects and was much respected for his piety. (Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families, Descendants of John Rush, p 661)

His estate was left to his wife, save 200 acres to his son John, 200 acres to his son Thomas as per agreement, and building lots in Philadelphia to son Josiah. (Pennsylvania Wills 1682-1834, Bucks County Will Abstracts, book 1, p 11)

"I noted that you both show that John Hart born 16 November 1651 of Witney, and who married Susanna Rush had a daughter named Isabella born 1680. I have a copy of the Witney, England monthly meeting dated 9th day of the 11th month of 1681 which states that during that meeting 'John Hart of Witney declares his intention of marriage with one Susanna Rush of London and of the meeting a certificate concerning his character....' which was approved.

Further, John and Susanna did marry on 16 September 1683, which was about a year after they both had arrived in America.

During the past two years I have had two different professional genealogists, who live in England, doing research for me. They were Mr Chris Patton and Ms Jennifer Montague-Jones. Further, I spent from 5 July of this year to 17 July doing research accompanied by Mr Patton.

Other than John Hart, who was born in Witney in 1651 and his father Christopher, the sum total of all of our research could not document any other ancestors of John's.

I would appreciate finding someone who includes Christopher, John, John, and Christopher supposedly born 1543 in their GEDCOM that could show me true documentation. I certainly could not find any after visiting the various parishes and the record offices."

(Ashley B Hart, (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX), on 18 January 2003)

"In Descendants of John Rush which is contained on the World Family Tree CD163, It does state that 'John and Susanna Rush married in England...'

However, in W W H Davis' book HISTORY OF THE HART FAMILY OF WARMINISTER, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, on page 60 states 'John Hart eldest son of Christopher and Mary Hart; who came to America with William Penn, married Susanna Rush, daughter of William and Aurelia Rush, of Byberry, Pennsylvania in the fall of 1683...'

I have not searched the records of the 'Monthly Meetings of the Friends Society' for the fall of 1683, since I have found that Davis' work has been generally accurate."

(Ashley B Hart, (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX), on 23 January 2003)

"Deed Book A, Vol I
"P. 110. Defeasance. John Hart, Byberry, Philadelphia County, yeoman sold to John Bordale and Sarah Bordale, Neshaminy Creek, Bucks County, aforesaid children of Arthur Bordale, dec'd, a parcel of land containing 200 acres being in Byberry, Philadelphia County for £1.10 by the 4/10/ next being after the date hereof and £1.10 by the 4th da, 7th mo, 1688 and full payment of £26.10 on or before the 7th mo, 1689. Ackn: 22/1/1687/8. Rec: 20/3/1687. Wit: Rovert Dave, Robert Rigge and William Rootlidge."

Source: Abstracts of Bucks County, Pennsylvania LAND RECORDS 1684-1723, Meldrum, Charlotte D., 1995, Family Line Publications, Westminster, MD 21157, p. 12.

"Volume I
"P. 111, 22 Mar 1687, John Hart, yeoman, of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania to John Bordale and Sarah Bordale, children of Arthur Bordale, deceased, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Signed Thomas Langhorn. Wit: Robert Dave, Robert Rigge and William (x) Rootlidge."

Source: Bucks County Pennsylvania Deed Records 1684-1763, 1997, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, MD. ISBN 0-7884-0779-1, p. 10.

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JOHN SR. and JOHN JR.

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John Hart [Sr.]
was a Quaker who emigrated Witney, Oxfordshire, England to Philadelphia in 1682. . . .
Pennsylvania was granted to William Penn by Charles II to repay debts owed to William’s father, Admiral Sir William Penn. It was a Proprietary colony and had more freedom than Crown colonies. William Penn offered complete religious liberty and easy terms for land that resulted in thousands of immigrates to Pennsylvania, mostly Quakers, from England, Wales, Germany, France and Holland.
John Hart [Sr.]
was born in 1651, the son of Christian [Christopher] Hart
and Mary Beckley
. His name appears in the Witney Society of Friends meeting records starting in 1675.
When William Penn announced he was starting a new colony, John Hart
[Sr.] decided to seek his fortune in the new world. He purchased from Penn one thousand acres of land
to be located in the new colony after Hart’s arrival. John and his sister Mary
left Witney early in 1682. It is a family legend that John and his sister arrived in Philadelphia two months before Penn who arrived in October 1682.
On his arrival, John Hart settled on five hundred acres on the Poquessing in Byberry Township. He also was granted five hundred acres in Warminster Township, Bucks County. In September 1683 John Hart married Susannah Rush, who was the daughter of William and Aurelia Rush. [ Error = Susannah's parents were Capt. John Rush and Susannah Lucas
.] Friends' monthly meeting records show John and Susannah were engaged to be married in 1681 prior to leaving England.

John Hart was active in Colony government and in the Society of Friends. He was elected a member of the first Assembly from the county of Philadelphia, and his name is on the first charter of government, dated February 25, 1683, which Penn granted the colonists. He was a leading Quaker until the George Keith schism of 1691. He took sides with Keith against Penn and left the Friends along with Keith, Rush, and many other families. In 1697 John joined the Pennypack Baptist Church. Some time between 1693 and 1698 he sold his Byberry estate and moved to Warminster Township, where he died in 1714.
John and Susannah had five children – John [Jr.] , Thomas [HART, Sr. - our line],
Joseph, Josiah and Mary.
John [Jr.] (1684-1763) married Eleanor Crispin
who was granddaughter of William Crispin,who was an officer under Admiral Penn
[father of Wm. Penn] and first cousin to William Penn. John was justice of the peace, high sheriff and coroner. In 1750 he erected the stone Warminster family mansion, which today is in splendid condition, the home of Donald Brennan and Dorothy Rose-Brennan at 1145 Charter Road, Warminster, Pennsylvania. One of his sons, Colonel Joseph Hart, was very prominent in the Revolutionary War, and another Oliver Hart was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Charleston, South Carolina, for thirty years.
Joseph Hart married Elizabeth Coreen.
Nothing is known of Josiah Hart.
Mary Hart died in 1721, unmarried.

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John Hart was a Quaker who emigrated Witney, Oxfordshire, England to Philadelphia in 1682. Around 1850 descendants of John Hart settled in Millbrook Township, Peoria County, Illinois This story follows one hundred seventy years and six generations of Harts from their arrival in Philadelphia to their settlement in Millbrook.
Pennsylvania was granted to William Penn by Charles II to repay debts owed to William’s father, Admiral Sir William Penn. It was a proprietary colony and had more freedom than crown colonies. William Penn offered complete religious liberty and easy terms for land that resulted in thousands of immigrates to Pennsylvania, mostly Quakers, from England, Wales, Germany, France and Holland.
John Hart was born in 1651, the son of Christian Hart and Mary Bleckley. His name appears in the Witney Society of Friends meeting records starting in 1675. When William Penn announced he was starting a new colony, John Hart decided to seek his fortune in the new world. He purchased from Penn one thousand acres of land to be located in the new colony after Hart’s arrival. John and his sister Mary left Witney early in 1682. It is a family legend that John and his sister arrived in Philadelphia two months before Penn who arrived in October 1682.
On his arrival, John Hart settled on five hundred acres on the Poquessing in Byberry Township. He also was granted five hundred acres in Warminster Township, Bucks County. In September 1683 John Hart married Susannah Rush, who was the daughter of William and Aurelia Rush. John Rush, the father of William, commanded a troop of horse in Cromwell’s army. Friends' monthly meeting records show John and Susannah were engaged to be married in 1681 prior to leaving England.
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The will of John HART, Warminster Twp Bucks Co PA File# 148,Doylstown, PA.
SOURCES:
THE HART FAMILY by American Genealogical Research Institute, Washington, DC,
PAGE 29.
THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY, Vol XVII p 326 &327.
THE HART FAMILY by W.W. Davis, 1867
COLONIAL FAMILIES OF PHILADELPHIA, Vol 1, 1911
"By deeds of lease and release dated October 12, 1681, he (JohnHart) purchased of William Penn, of Worminghurst, county of Surrey,England, Proprietary of Pennsylvania, 1000 acres of land to be laid outin the Province of Pennsylvania." "John Hart was a member of ColonialAssembly from Philadelphia county, 1683-1684, and signed the first "Formof Government" 2mo. 2, 1683."

Information from Warren Hart, Jacksonville, FL. "The History of Buck Co., Pa from the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time (1905) by William Watts Hart Davis, A.M. - 1820-1910, Gen. Ref. 929.1 Dav. "The Hart Family" by the American Genealogical Research Institute, Washington, DC: 1975 says John Hart emigrated from Witney, Oxfordshire, to Byberry, Pennsylvania in 1682; granted 1,000 acres of land by William Penn; member of the First Pennsylvania Assembly, signer of the first charter of government granted colonists by Penn. Also has Early Marriage Records - John Hart married Susanna Rush in 1683 possibly at Byberry, Pennsylvania. Information from Roger Stubbs, Minnesota Information from Jack Nosler, Wichita, Kansas

SOURCE: "The Rush Family of the Appalachians," Descendants of Captain John Rush on microfilm at the LDS Family History Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

"Colonial Families of the United States;" page 406-409.

NOTE: Complete documentation for the following sources is not listed due to researcher error in recording source. Copies of all documents are in the possession of Stephen Johnson.

"Descendants of John Rush," pages 660-671.

"Rush," pages 213-215.

Research of Michele Quay Hayes of Pittsburgh, PA, found at the internet site of Luther Olson ((XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)). This site is an extensive compilation of search on the RUSH family for seven generations gathered by several individuals. Son of Christopher HART and Mary BECKLEY. Member of the first
Assembly called by William Penn in 1683. Became a Keithian in 1691 and a Baptist in 1697, being a preacher in each. Much respected for his piety.

Info fr Rush Family Pedigree.
Mary Hicks, Fowlerville, Mi. Virkus Compendium Vol 6,P316. Rush Family, P2, was 1st a Quaker, 2nd Keithian, then a Baptist being a noted preacher of that denomination.

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