Dickinson, of Middlefleld, Conn., for free access to his very extensive and valuable library.

With these preliminary remarks, which seemed to be necessary to define my position, I submit the following pages to the very numerous posterity of a puritan and venerated progenitor. Should the present living generation be led to honor their parents more, and be more inclined to perpetuate their memory, and the generations to come who peruse this volume be induced to imitate the virtues of their pious ancestors, one great object.of the writer will be attained.

I must not forget or neglect to say, that the Hart family are in debted to Austin Hart, Esq., a lawyer of New Britain, Conn., for an engraving representing the face of Dea. Simeon Hart, and placed as frontispiece of this work, and who also has generously volunteered to publish the work itself. This he does without a subscription list to back him up, or recourse to any fund, but relies entirely upon the liberality of the family to patronize its sale, so that the expenses may be met promptly for paper, printing, and binding.

I am also under obligations to W. W. H. Davis, author of a pedigree and history of John Hart, the Quaker, who came over with Wm. Penn, and settled near Philadelphia in 1682. From this pamphlet I have made several extracts in constructing my Introduction, calling them miscellaneous Harts.

NEW BRITAIN, CONN., Aug. 4th, 1874.