Declaration of Independence, as also of Col. John Nixon, who first read the declaration to the people from the steps of Independence Hall, July 8th, 1776.

The following are Harts having money in the Bank of England, as heirs. Taken from Gunn's list of heirs at law, 1872, 3. Lond. :- Christopher Hart, Capt. S. Hart, Miss Sarah Hart, (Co. Sussex,) Henry Hart, Frances Sarah Hart, Martha Hart, Letitia Hart, Louisa Hart.

Dr. John Hart, of Reading, Mass., died 1836, aged 84.

Two men by the name of Hart, hailing from Farmington, Conn., - one of them almost a giant, -- helped to build "Belcher's Wall." -- See Kendall's Travels, vol.1, p.120.

Lucretia Hart, daughter of Col. Thos. Hart, of Lexington, Ky. married April, 1799, Hon. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, one of the most distinguished statesmen and orators of this or any country. They had ten children.

Col. Thos. Hart's widow, Susannah, died at Lexington, Ky., 1832, aged 86 years; she was the mother of Mrs. Henry Clay.

The mother of Hon. Thos. Hart Benton was a Hart.

Joseph C. Hart, U. S. Consul at Santa Cruz, died July 23d, 1855.

Thomas Hart, Haverhill, Mass., represented that town in the State Legislature, in 1693.

Daniel Hart, of Wheelock, Vt., married Emily Shattuck.

Mary Hart married William Shattuck, of Vermont; she died in 1822, when he married for a second wife Maria, daughter of Aaron Strong Hart.

Jonathan Hart, Salem, Mass., 1710. -- See Felt's Hist. of Salem.

Abijah Hart, Salem, Mass., 1752, a teacher of the grammar school.

Benjamia Hart, Salem, Mass., post rider. -- See Felt's History.

Francis Bret Harte, a poet and humorist, was born at Albany, N.Y., in 1837 ; he lost his father, a professor in the Albany Female Seminary, when a child. At the age of seventeen he went to California, where he taught school. Subsequently he became a miner, and then a compositor on a newspaper, at Eureka. Returning to San Francisco, he was compositor, and afterwards editor of the Golden Era. He held positions successively in the General Surveyor's office, in the U. S. Marshal's office, and the Branch Mint, and was concerned in the management of the Californian. He became known to the public through his poems and characteristic pictures of California life, in the Overland Monthly founded and edited by him in July, 1868. He was author of "Luck of Roaring Camp," and other tales, written in 1869.

Sally Hart, daughter of Ebenezer, married Thos. K. Andrews, of Murray, N.Y.

Harriet Hart, her sister, married James Trumbull.