John Hart, Jr.

Children of John Hart and Deborah Scudder:

5. John Hart Jr. Oct 28/29, 1748 March 22, 1790 or 1791 Philadelphia, PA Married Mary or Catherine Knowles (b.1751/55) May 20, 1770

Taken from the Find A Grave profile for John Hart, Jr.:

John Hart Jr. was the son of John Hart (signer of the Declaration of Independence) and his wife Deborah Scudder. Please note: If you find a tree claiming John Hart, Jr. had a middle name (e.g. Roger or Mitchell), this is NOT the same John Hart, Jr. None of the Hart children were given middle names. The only John Jr. recognized by the DSDI or the DAR is the one married to Catherine Knowles. It would have been impossible for him to be the same John Jr as the ones with the middle names Roger or Mitchell.

John married Catherine Knowles and together they had one son (John) and four daughters (Mary, Susannah, Sarah, and Elizabeth). Any other names added as a child are false. Please do not add them to your own trees.

• *special notes, there are family trees online that claim Elijah Hart was a son but, in fact, Elijah was the son of another John Hart and his wife Hannah Phillips. Another untrue claim is that Mitchell Hart was a son but all evidence (including the wills of the John Hart and John Knowles) backs up John and Catherine only having one son. If any additional children show up on this FindAGrave page, they are NOT children of our John and Catherine.

Also, there is a FindAGrave page claiming that a "John Roger Hart" was the Signer's son. that claim is also untrue. John Roger Hart served in the Revolutionary War and the Signer's son John did not. JRH was born about five years after our John Hart, Jr.

More and more trees are popping up that John Hart, the Signer's son, was married to an Eleanor Campbell with claims he was a bigamist. This is a completely new rumor just recently created and wrong. There have been a number of descendants accepted by the Daughter's of the American Revolution and his marriage and children have been in the records for some time. There were numerous John Harts and the one married to Eleanor is very clearly a different John Hart.

Also both the 1890 and 1819 death dates are incorrect. Both dates are easily disproven. Please do not add either date to this page. Thank you.