John ‘of Marblehead’ Hart

Not the same as John ‘of Newtown’ Hart, Sr.

John Hart (abt. 1595 - 1655)

• Born about 1595 [location unknown]
• Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
• Husband of Mary
• Husband of Florence (Norman) Whitred — married 1639 [location unknown]
• Father of Elizabeth Wenborn (Hart) Flint, Jonathan Hart and Deborah (Hart) Morgan
• Died 1655 in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

John Hart migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

Biography

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John Hart, aged forty, a shoemaker, and his wife Mary Hart, aged thirty-one, were among the passengers on the James of London, bound for New England 13 July 1635. They settled in Salem, where John Hart was a proprietor in 1636. Both he and Mary were members of the First Church of Salem in 1637.1

John Hart was made freeman of the colony 9: 5 mo: 1645 (9 July 1645).2 His home was in that part of Salem which soon became the separate political unit of Marblehead where Hart was chosen by the town to collect the tax for a meeting-house in 1648. He was granted the right to keep "a house of common entertainment" in 1651, the privilege being confirmed by the Court.3,1

From the town Hart received a grant of ten acres in 1637, and, petitioning with William Charles for land, he was granted a house-lot and five acres "at Mrbell head" in the same year. In 1638 he received three-quarters of an acre of marsh. He paid a town rate of £2 in 1647, and was allowed to pasture two cows on the common land in 1648. He was appointed administrator of the estate of Richard Jarret of Poole by the Boston Court in November 1651.1

Upon John Hart's death in 1656, his widow Florence was appointed administratrix of his estate. It was apparently obvious that his estate was insolvent, as Elias Stileman was immediately directed to apportion the claims of his creditors.4,1 From evidence presented in suits brought fifteen years later by Jonathan Hart to recover his father's real estate in Marblehead, it appears that the widow Florence Hart accepted her husband's personal property in lieu of dower, and that the Hart house, the acre of land around it and the five acres of town grant, at Devereux's Point, became the property of George Corwin, the principal creditor, who sold this property to John Peach, Jr., of Marblehead.1

Inventory of the estate of John Hart was taken 14: 1: 1655/6 (14 March 1655/56) by Moses Mavericke and Johanne Bartoll: One house with aboute an acre of ground whereon ye house standeth & an old Cow house together with Commonidg for 2 Cowes & 5 acres upland, 36li; A part of ye farme that was Mr. Humphrey's, 7li. 10s; 1 acre of meadow at Salem, 3li., 2 Cowes, 8li; 1 Calfe ten weekes ould, 15s; 2 small swine, 1li; 1 flock beed in ye parlour, 1 Cotten Rugg, 1 boulster & 2 pillowes, feathers, 2 old Curtaines, 2li. 10s; 1 table, 4 Joynstooles, 15s; 1 chaire, 2s. 8d; 2 chests & 1 box, 12s; 1 pr. of great Andirons, tongs & shovell, 10s. 2 window Cussions, 3s; 1 woolin wheele, 3s; 1 Looking glass, 3s; 6 pewter dishes, 2 baisons, 1li., 2 quart potts, 1 candlestick, beaker & wine cup, brass snuffers & small cupp, 7s; 1 pr. wooll Cards, 2s; 3 Iron potts, 1li. 5s; 3 brass kettles, 1 copper kettle & skillet, 1li; 1 brass furnace, 1li; 1 feather bed, boulster & 2 pillowes, 2li. 10s; a pr. Curtaines & Vallance, 1li. 10s; 1 white Rugg & Coverlett, 1li; -elt, 3s. 6d; [bed]stead & Cord, 5s; [ta]ble very ould & little, 1s. 6d; 1 Lanthorne, 1s. 6d; 3 pr. sheetes, 2 pr. pillowbeers, 1li. 10s; 1 tablecloth, 1 dos. napkins, 12s; 1 table in ye Kitchin, 1s. 6d; 2 tubbs & 2 payles, 5s; som earthenwaier & other Lumber, 6s; 1 spitt & hanger for ye chimney, 5s; total, 74li. 10s. 6d. The estate is debtor to Mr. Corwin, 30li.' Mr. Browne, 8li. 6s; a bill at Boston, 5li; Sam. Archard, 2li; Mr. Elzey, 18li; total, 63li. 6s.5,6

John Hart had the following known children with his two wives, Mary and Florence:[1]

1. John, lost at sea in 1673
2. Jonathan, married Lydia Neale Nov 1671
3. Elizabeth, m Edward Flint
4. Sarah, married Jeremiah Neale
5. Deborah, m Joseph Morgan of Beverly
6. Florence

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John Hart

• BIRTH 1595 - England
• DEATH Mar 1655 (aged 59–60) - Marblehead, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

BIRTH: About 1595 (aged 40 on 13 July 1635). Shoemaker who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1635 on the "James." (On 13 July 1635, "Jo[hn] Hart," aged 40, shoemaker, and "Mary Hart," aged 31, were enrolled at London as passengers for New England on the James). First settled in Salem; later moved to Marblehead. Died before 14 March 1655/6 (date of inventory).

MARRIAGE:

• (1) By 1635 Mary _____; she died before 1639.
• (2) By about 1639 Florence Norman, daughter of RICHARD NORMAN {1626, Salem}. She married (2) by about 1659 Thomas Whittridge, and took her own life on or shortly before 2 August 1672 (her eldest son with her second husband was "about 12 or 13 years at the most" at the time of her death; in his nuncupative will of 21 August 1672, "Thomas Whittridge," the second husband of Florence, was referred to as "our brother Thomas Whittridge" by Richard Norman and by Robert Morgan (who had married Margaret Norman), and the testator "your sister my wife now taken from me;" a coroner's inquest "appointed upon the sudden death of Flouranc Whiteridg, late wife of Thomas Whitridg of Ipswich, on 2:6:1672 [2 August 1672], found her 'accessory to her own death by stifling or drowning herself in the water.'"

Spouses

Mary Hart
(m. 1635)

Florence Norman Hart Whittered
1619–1672 (m. 1639)

"Thomas Whittridge," the second husband of Florence, was referred to as "our brother Thomas Whittridge" by Richard Norman and by Robert Morgan (who had married Margaret Norman), and the testator "your sister my wife now taken from me;" a coroner's inquest "appointed upon the sudden death of Flouranc Whiteridg, late wife of Thomas Whitridg of Ipswich, on 2:6:1672 [2 August 1672], found her 'accessory to her own death by stifling or drowning herself in the water.'"

References

1. Robert Charles Anderson, _Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635_ 3 (G-H; 2003): 227-230, references "aged 40 on 13 July 1635," citing "Hotten 108." I have no knowledge of location; date from Robert Charles Anderson, _Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635_ 3 (G-H; 2003): 227-230, references date of inventory, citing "EPR 1:243."
2. Perley, Sidney, History of Salem, published 1924-28 Reference Volume 2, page 133
3. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988. :John Hart :Death Date 1655 :Death Place Marblehead, Massachusetts
4. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37153998/john-hart
5. http://www.brazoriaroots.com/p9191.htm cites
   1. [S857] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Hart, of Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. 1I, 197, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
   2. [S855] George Francis Dow, ed., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9 vols. (Salem: Essex Institute, 1911-1973). Transcribed and Abstracted from the Original Manuscript by Harriet S. Tapley, I: 78.
   3. [S855] George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, I: 208.
   4. [S855] George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, I: 428.
   5. [S855] George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, I: 428, 429.
   6. [S857] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Hart, of Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. 1I, 197, 198, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
   7. [S857] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Hart, of Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. 1I, 199, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
   8. [S857] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Hart, of Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. 1I, 200, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
6. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hart-4622