John ‘of Newtown’ Hart

• Not the same as John ‘of Marblehead’ Hart
• Parents seen as John Hart, Esquire & Elizabeth Hart
• Parents also seen as Edmund (Edward) Hart & Margaret Hart

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John Hart Sr (abt. 1595 - 1671)

• Born about 1595 in England
• Died Nov 1671 in Mashpeth Kills, Elmhurst, Queens, New York
• Son of John Hart [uncertain] and Elizabeth (Peche) Hart [uncertain]
• Husband of Mary (Shoemaker?) Hart — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hart-10377

John Hart Sr is presumed to have been born in England. He might have settled first in Massachusetts or Connecticut, possibly the area of Hartford where many Harts settled.

A record was found of John Hart and wife Mary as passengers arriving In New England in 1635.[1]

He was in Middleburgh, Long Island (later Newtown, Queens Co., NY) by 1659. Bailey names his wife as Mary ________ referencing a land transaction dated January 5 1690. [2] All of the children are named in the will except John, the eldest son, who sold land in Maidenhead, Hopewell, Burlington County, NJ to George Cooke in Newton, and signed his name John Hart Jr. This was said to be his 'absolute state of inheritance'. On page 172 Bailey suggests that inheritance was a land transaction in 1684 in Newtown. A discussion citing town records, land transactions, church records and wills is used to determine the ancestry of John Hart, the Signer.[3]

Children of JOHN HART and MARY (UNKNOWN) are:

1. 2. i. JOHN2 HART, b. 1636; d. 1712. He married MARY HUNT, daughter of RALPH HUNT and ELIZABETH JESSUP.
2. ii. SARAH HART.
3. iii. SAMUEL HART, d. Newtown Long island, NY.
4. iv. SUSAN HART.
5. v. WILLIAM HART.

He died in Mashpeth Kills leaving a nuncupative will in 1671 written whilst on his death bed, in precinct Newtown where he resided. Witnesses are named as Thomas Wandell and his wife Anne, Humphrey Clay and his wife Sarah and as it reads "other neighbours." He left his plantation and other goods to four of his children which he named as Samuel, William, Susan and Sarah. To his eldest son (unnamed) one shilling as he had already his inheritance. Letters of Adminisration to the son Samuel Hart in the 23rd of His Majesty's Reign 1671 (no day or month recorded, order within wills would suggest about November). [4][5]

research notes

No record of Mary Shoemaker as wife was been found

http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/k/o/p/Peter-Kop-nj/GENE1-0001.html

OCT 1635 Arrived in America (from London) on "James" _FA2: 1650 to Long Island from Connecticut Note:

Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the year 1892 (Publication Fund Series); New York: Printed for the Society, MDCCCXCIII, p. 21.

Page 83.--JOHN HART, of Maspeth Kills, L.I. "A little before his death made a nuncupative will 'after this manner.' Gives to eldest son (not named) one shilling, he having already received his portion. To Son William one Hog, and to his daughter Sarah another. Leaves the Plantation and rest of goods to his two sons Samuel and William and his two daughters Sarah and Susan.

"In presence of Thomas Wandell, and Anne his wife, Humphrey Clay and Sarah his wife, and also other neighbors then present."

Letters of Administration granted to Samuel Hart father of said John Hart, --- ---, 1671. Francis Lovelace. ________________________

Frederic W. Bailey, New Haven, Conn., "The Ancestry of the Hon. John Hart, of Hopewell, N.J., Signer of the Declaration of Independence"; The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. XXVI, No. 4; New York: October, 1895, pp. 170-177.

[extracts]

Our first John Hart lived in Newtown, L.I., which borders on Flushing. Where he came from is not determined. He was an original settler and a large land-owner in a region called Maspeth Kills--a territory reaching down to a creek that bounded the town on one side, and containing, with much good meadow, salt marshes, an island, and low land. His will, recorded in the New York Probate Office (Vol. I, p. 153), and proved in 1671, names the children, with the exception of the eldest son (John), who, having already received his portion, is given one shilling. To the others--Samuel, William of Menticock (Matinicock, near Oyster Bay, L.I., an old Friends' settlement), Sarah, and Susan--was given the farm.

Much information is gleaned of the Newtown Harts from the old town records and deeds at Jamaica, and from an old book found with the town clerk at Newtown. Our knowledge of John Hart (1st) begins March 11, 1668, as stated in the Annals of Newtown, when he and James Way secured the meadow land at Maspeth Kills, which had been in dispute between Bushwick and Newtown. __

Note: His memorial is tentatively placed in this location based on his residence. No documentation of a gravestone or burial here has been found.

Note: Heartfelt thanks to Mary Jo C. Martin for creating this memorial.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49079924

References

1. TEPPER, MICHAEL, editor. Immigrants to the Middle Colonies: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from "The New York Genealogical Biographical Record." Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978. 178p. Repr. 1979.John Hart, Mary Hart Wife. New England; Year: 1635; Page Number: 26 Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA
2. 'The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, The Ancestry of the Hon. John Hart, of Hopewell, N. J., Frederic W Bailey, Vol 26, October 1895, page 170-177 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=y5syAQAAMAAJ&printsec=front...
3. Frederick W Bailey, October 1895 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=y5syAQAAMAAJ&printsec=front...
4. NY Wills, Vol 001, 1665-1683? Collections of the New York Historical Society for the year 1892, New York Historical Society, 1893, page 21 https://books.google.com/books?id=bCs8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21 TEPPER, MICHAEL, editor. Immigrants to the Middle Colonies: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from "The New York Genealogical Biographical Record." Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978. 178p. Repr. 1979....New England; Year: 1635; Page Number: 26. Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA Bazley, Lee Francis. Genealogical and personal memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey. New York 1907. volume 1 Page 174.
5. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year ... By New-York Historical Society. Page 21. < GoogleBooks > Dated October 11, 1671. Witnesses, Otto Gerritts, James Matthews, Cohnraet Ten Eyck. Proved October 27, 1671. Page 83.
6. The annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York; containing its history from its first settlement, together with many interesting facts concerning the adjacent towns; by Riker, James, 1822-1889 (Publication date 1852).