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under Com. Chauncey, and was killed in the battle at Green Bay, in 1812, being shot through the breast ; he was buried with military honors.

Monmouth B. Hart, brother of Ezekiel, was high sheriff at Bloomingdale, N. Y.

Thomas Hart of Long Island, N. Y., married Mary Denwick, of Setanket, L. I. They had seven chldren, only one of whom is fully reported, viz.: Andrew Thomas, born July 3d, 1808, now living (1873,) at Janesville, Rock Co., Wis. He married, May 5th, 1831, Harriet Brown Whitlock, daughter of William and Julia Brown Whitlock, of Elizabethtown, N. J. -she died Dec. 9th, 1868, and was buried at Oak Hill cemetery, Janesville. He was in mercantile business in New York City until 1838 ; afterwards fourteen years in the Bank of Cornmerce, New York, whence he removed to Harmony, "Rock Prairie," Wis., and resided there thirteen years; subsequently he returned and located at Janesville. They also had seven children, only one of whom is reported, viz. Henry Martyn Hart, born in New York City, Jan. 2d, 1838, married, Oct. 12th, 1858, Harriet Parker. He is an Insurance agent, residing (1874) at Janesville. They have two sons and three daughters.

John Hart Son of Christopher and Mary Hart, was born at Witney, Oxfordshire, Eng., Nov. 16th, 1651, and came to this country with William Penn. He was a Quaker preacher of note, and settled near Philadelphia. He owned one thousand acres of land which he purchased of William Penn, before they left England. He was elected a member of the Assembly for the county of Philadelphia, and took his seat March 12th, 1683. He died at his residence in Warminster, September, 1714, in the 63d year of his age. His widow, Susannah, died Feb. 27th, 1725. In his Will he gave his wife £15 silver money, and all his personal property not already disposed of; to his son John, he gave two hundred acres, his homestead at Warminster; and to his son Thomas, he gave two hundred acres. He bequeathed .to his son Josiah the two lots in Philadelphia; and to his daughter Mary, he gave £15 in silver money, and other property ;-she is supposed to have died single. This second John was a useful man, both in Church and State, but not so distinguished as his father before him. John Hart, Jr., was born at Byberry, near Philadelphia, 1684, and was married to Eleanor Crispin, in 1708; he seceded from the Quakers, and embraced the Baptists' faith, at the time of the great split in the days of Keith, the agitator. Mr. Hart was patriotic, and held a captain's commission in the militia of Bucks Co., in 1756; he was also a deacon in the Southampton Baptist Church. He died in 1763, in the 80th year of his age his wife died in 1754, in the 68th year of her age. He left three