Elias Simon De Hart

baptism

1677 Mar 21; Simon Aertszen, Geertie Cornelis; Elias; Jacob Swart, Adriaen Corneliszen

He lived on father's land in Brooklyn until 1710 when he moved to Six Mile Run, Monmouth Co., NJ. He was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church.

Taken from the following: http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/k/u/h/Maxine-Kuhn/FILE/0001page.html

Descendants of Prince William DeHart
Generation 1
1.
PRINCE WILLIAM1 DEHART was born about 1550 in Burgandy, France. He died in Brest, France. He married ELIZABETH UNKNOWN.

Notes for Prince William DeHart:
William** born in Brest of Hart (de Hart) in France per Debra Clear, Internet.

The following was written about William's descendants who fled France because of religious persecution.

A Few of the DeHarts*

       Since "de" is a French preposition corresponding roughly to the English "of," the name DeHart is basically Hart.  This French preposition is often used in titles, as in Marquis de la Fayette, but more often as a mere preposition.

       The Patronymica Britannica has the following comment on the name, Hart:

       "A common charge of heraldry.  Its Medieval form as a surname was LeHart.  We have a large importation from Germany where the name or word implies hard, stiff, inflexible."

       Use of the French article "le" with the name, Hart, by the Germans and others, is obviously a recognition of its French origin.  The Dutch sometimes prefixed the article "ter"' and also used the French "de."

       There are divergent traditions and family records as to when and where the DeHarts first entered America, but all agree that they originated from the French Huguenots.  The plight of these French Protestants is too well known to require much comment. However, in all the bloodshed of the Reformation, no other people suffered such barbaric brutality as did these pious Huguenots.  For half a century before the reign of Henry IV, tens of thousands were massacred at Vassy, at Paris on Bartholomew's Eve, and elsewhere.  Hundreds of thousands fell in battle fighting for liberty and religious freedom. In 1598, Henry IV granted religious freedom by the Edict of Nantes.  The Edict was nominally in effect for nearly one hundred years, but regardless of its repeated confirmation, after Henry's death they suffered beastly persecution.  In 1685 the Edict was revoked.  The church was annihilated and its membership almost exterminated.  They had no alternative but to flee or die.  The few who escaped sought refuge wherever they could find protection in Protestant communities.

              Holland had become a Protestant State and William of Orange, an ardent Protestant, was then its Stadtholder.  Sone of these refugees were welcomed by the Dutch, among whom Here persons named Hart.  In Holland they took the name of Ter Haert or DeHart.  The French name, DeHart, probably meant, of or from the community or Province of Hart.

            The Dutch colony of New Netherland was founded in 1623 and New Amsterdam in 1620. Since there was religious freedom in the new colony, it was quite natural for some of the Huguenot refugees, then in Holland, to go along with the Dutch colonists.  In this way the first DeHarts came to America.

            In the History of First American DeHarts (From the History of The Bergen Family) is written: 'Simon Aertsen Ter Hart or DeHart emigrated to this country in 1664 and owned and occupied prior to 1679 the farm at Gowanus. ...He married first Geertie Cornelissen." The children by his first wife were Smon, Elyas, and Annetie.  His son Simon inherited the plantation of three hundred acres in Brooklyn and married Angenetie, daughter of Jan Van Dyck.  For several generations the oldest son took his father's name, Simon.  One of the sons of each family was named Elyas.

            From family records of the DeHarts in an old Bible now in possession of the descendants of Sally DeHart Marr, it is known that Simon Artsen DeHart was born in Holland in 1643 and came to New  Amsterdam in 1664.  Elias one of the two sons by Simon Artsen's first wife, was born the twenty-first of March 1677.  Simon, the first son of Elias DeHart was probably born around 1700.  He moved to Spartanburg county, South Carolina, during the Colonial period where he became a permanent resident.

       There is good reason to believe that most if not all of the American DeHarts are descendants of Huguenots who fled to Holland for refuge and came from there to New Netherland, now New York.  They intermarried with the Dutch in Holland and New Netherland. Throughout the years that have followed, they have married into families of many nationalities.  With amalgamation going on for three and one-half centuries, there is little that is French left to the DeHarts but the name.

       However, some desirable traits have been inherited or handed along, such as industry, integrity, frugality, and thrift.  Then too, the religious tenet of the older Carolina DeHarts was uniformly Calvinistic. They were basically Baptist.  A few of the later generations have absorbed the Anglican faith of the families into which they have married.

       Andrew J. DeHart of Bryson City, North Carolina, quotes from Dr. Mary DeHart Lightner of Los Angeles, California, as follows: "The marriage records and wills show that they, the DeHarts, married into what later proved to be our most distinguished families, such as the Honorable John Hart, signer of the Declaration of Independence (correction! this John Hart is not related to the DeHarts); the Wendells of Hudson Bay Company; the grandmother of Oliver Wendell Holmes; John Delano the Grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the wife of General Winfield Scott, Cornelius Vanderbilt and many others."

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• Writer of this article is unknown.
  • Lucile Long DeHart Long stated in her letter of 9/28/1997 that William DeHart was born in 1550 and gave his name as Prince William of Burgundy, France!

According to The DeHart Family Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 1, August 1, 1940, Bryson City, North Carolina, a DeHart is recognized as the first soldier to volunteer for service before Lincoln made his initial call was brother of General R. P. DeHart. In October, 1860, he visited relatives in Kentucky whom he found to be rabid adherents to the Southern cause, remained only twenty-four hours, and after returning home, organized a company who gave their oath to serve if the impending war came. (The article did not mention his name or if he were a Confederate or Union soldier.)

Prince William DeHart and Elizabeth Unknown had the following children:
2. i. BALTHAZAR2 DEHART. He died in 1672 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He married MARY STUYVESANT.

               ii. MATHIAS DEHART.

3. iii.SYMON JACOBUS DEHART.

               iv.DANIEL DEHART MD.

               v. WILLEMETJE DEHART.