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Deacon Stephen Hart, II

Deacon Stephen Hart, II

Male 1602 - 1683  (81 years)    Has 3 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Deacon Stephen Hart  [1
    Suffix II 
    Birth 25 Jan 1602  Braintree, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death Mar 1683  Farmington, Hartford Co, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 5 Siblings 
    Person ID I102080  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 30 Aug 2000 

    Father Stephen Hart,   b. 1568, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1627, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years) 
    Marriage 1601 
    Family ID F44323  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Margaret,   b. Abt 1615   d. 1693 (Age 78 years) 
    Family ID F41319  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2000 

    Family 2 Elizabeth?,   b. Abt 1610   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 1632 
    Children 
     1. Mehetable Hart,   b. 1622, Ipswich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Mar 1684, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)
    +2. Sarah Hart,   b. Jun 1624, St. Margaret's, Ipswich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1697, Kensington, Hartford Co, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
    +3. Mary Hart,   b. 1627, Ipswich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Oct 1710, South Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
     4. John Hart,   b. 1630, Ipswich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Dec 1666, Farmington, Hartford Co, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years)
    +5. Stephen Hart, III,   b. 1632, Ipswich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jul 1689, Farmington, Hartford Co, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years)
     6. Thomas Hart,   b. Mar 1642, Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Aug 1728, Farmington, Hartford Co, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
    Family ID F41320  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2000 

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  • Notes 
    • - Arrived Massachusetts Bay abt 1632.

      - Located for a time at Newtown (Cambridge), MA.

      - Constituent members of the church n Farmington, organized November 1652.

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      - One of 54 settlers at Cambridge & at Hartford.

      - A proprietor at Hartford in 1639.

      - One of the 84 proprietors of Farmington in 1672.

      - 1647 - One of the deputies of the General Court of Connecticut, May session.

      - 1653 - Appt. a comissioner for town of Farmington.

      - This was to aid the constable in impressing men into the army then being raised.

      - 1634 - Admitted a freeman at cambridge, MA.

      - Hartford, CT named after a ford on the CT River he discovered, "Hart's Ford."

      DEACON STEPHEN HART Braintree, Eng; Cambridge, Mass.; Hartford and Tunxis, Conn.

      Deacon Stephen Hart, son of ? ,
      and his wife, ? , born about 1605, at
      Braintree, in Essex County, Eng. He
      came from there to Massachusetts
      Bay about 1632, and located for a
      time at (Newtown,) Cambridge,
      Mass.; married ? . She died ? ,
      when second he married Margaret,
      the widow of Arthur Smith, and
      daughter of ? . She survived Deacon
      Hart, and was admitted to the
      church in Farmington, March 17th,
      1690-1. She died in 1693. Deacon
      Hart and his first wife were
      constituent members of the church
      in Farmington, organized November,
      1652, with Rev. Roger Newton
      pastor. Mr. Hart had been deacon of
      Rev. Thomas Hooker's church, at
      Cambridge, Mass., and at Hartford,
      Conn. He was one of the fifty-four
      settlers at Cambridge, Mass., was a
      proprietor at Hartford in 1639, and
      became one of the eighty-four
      proprietors of Farmington in 1672. In
      1647 he was one of the "deputyes"
      of the General Court of Connecticut,
      at their May session. In 1653 he
      was appointed a comissioner, by
      the General Court, for the Town of
      Farmington, to aid the constable in
      impressing men into the army, then
      being raised.

      Stephen hart is supposed to have
      come from Braintree, Essex County,
      England, with the company that
      settled Braintree, Mass., and
      subsequently removed to Newtown,
      since called Cambridge, and
      constituted the church of which Rev.
      Thomas Hooker was invited from
      England to become their pastor. He
      was in Cambridge in 1632, and
      admitted a freeman there, May 14th,
      1634. He came to Hartford with Mr.
      Hooker's company in 1635, and was
      one of the original proprietors of that
      place. His house lot was on the
      west side of what is now called
      Front Street, near where Morgan
      Street crosses it, and there is a
      tradition that the town was called
      from the ford he discovered and
      used in crossing the Conecticut
      River at a low stage of the water,
      and so from Hart's Ford it soon
      became Hartford, from a natural and
      easy transition. Tradition further
      says that as he and others were on
      a hunting excursion on Talcott
      Mountain, they discovered the
      Farmington River Valley, then
      inhabited by the Tunxis, a powerful
      tribe of Indians. The meadows were
      probably then cleared, and waving
      with grass and Indian corn. Such
      lands were then much needed and
      coveted by the settlers, who soon -
      probably as soon as 1640 - made a
      bargain with the Indians, and settled
      among them with their cattle. They
      still continued, however, connected
      with the settlement at Hartford,
      attended public worship, and
      prehaps wintered there, until about
      1645, when the town was
      incorporated by the name of
      Farmington, from the excellent
      farms there. (The Principal leaders
      in this settlement were John Steele,
      William Lewis, Stephen Hart,
      Thomas Judd, John Bronson, John
      Warner, Nathaniel Kellogg, Thomas
      Barnes, Richard Seymour, and
      Thomas Gridley.) About this time
      Mr. Roger Newton, a student in
      theology with Rev. Thomas Hooker,
      whose daughter he married, began
      to preach for them, and in 1652 was
      ordained their pastor. Stephen Hart
      was one of the seven pillars of the
      church, and was chose their first
      deacon. The other pilars were Rev.
      Roger Newton, pastor, John Cole
      (Cowles), John Bronson, Robert
      Porter, Thomas Judd, and Thomas
      Thomson.

      Stephen Hart appears to have taken
      the lead in the settlement among
      the Indians in Farmington, and
      purchased a large tract on the
      border of the present town of Avon,
      and known to this day by the name
      of Hart's farm. (Probably located at
      or near what is now called Cider
      brook, on the east side of the river,
      and near the bridge, some three
      miles north of Farmigton Village.)
      He was one of the first
      representatives in 1647, and
      continued, with one exception, for
      fifteen sessions, until 1655, and
      once in 1660. In short, no man in
      the town was more active,
      influential, and useful. His
      house-lot, which was four or five
      times as large as any other, was on
      the west side of Main Street, in the
      village, opposite the meeting house,
      and contained fifteen acres,
      exending from Mill Lane to the stone
      store south. This large house-lot
      was granted to Deacon Stephen
      Hart as an inducement to erect and
      continue a mill on the premises, to
      be perpetuated and kept in motion.
      The mill was erected originally by
      the Bronsons, to whom, as a
      consideration, was granted, viz: a
      tract of eighty acres, on the
      Pequabuk River, now known as the
      "Eighty Acres." The south part of
      this house-lot he gave to his son
      John, and the north part to his son
      Thomas. Thomas gave it to his son
      Josiah, and it descended to the wife
      of Roger Hooker, his only surviving
      child, and to her only son, Thomas
      Hart Hooker, who sold it to Samuel
      Deming. The Demings and their
      descendants hold it to this day -
      1874. These lots and lands, in
      some respects, are the most
      desirable and valuable of any in the
      old town of Farmington. He was a
      representative to the General Court
      of Connecticut in 1647, and most of
      the succeeding years to 1660, from
      the town of Farmington. His widow,
      Margaret, gave her property to her
      sons, John and Arthur Smith, and
      daughter, Elizabeth Thompson. She
      had grandchildren - Elizabeth, John,
      and Ann Thompson.

      Deacon Hart's Will was dated March
      16th, 1682-3. He mentions the farm
      he formerly gave his three sons,
      John, Steven, and Thomas, viz:
      one-half to John, one-fourth to
      Stephen, and one-fourth to Thomas.

      Item. - I give my sons, Steven and
      Thomas, and my daughters, Sarah
      Porter and Mary Lee, my Swamp Lot
      in the great Swamp, (The Great
      Swamp means Kensington Parish,
      now part of Berlin) and all my
      uplands to be equally divided
      between them. Item. - I give my
      grandchild, Dorothy Porter, 10
      pounds. Item. - I give my
      grandchild, John Lee, 3 pounds.
      Item. - I give my grandchild, John
      Hart, my eldest son's son, 3
      pounds. Item. - I give my beloved
      wife, +c.

      The Inventory was taken by Thomas
      Hart and John Hart, Selectmen.
      Issac Moore and Benjamin Judd,
      Appraisers. Taken March 31st,
      1682-3.

      Amount 340 pounds, 4s. House and
      homestead, 70 pounds; land at Nod,
      east of river, 40 pounds.

      Deacon Hart was a farmer and large
      land-holder, located in the village of
      Farmington, and was a man of great
      influence, and a leading character.
      He died March, 1682-3, aged 77
      years.
      Deacon at Rev. Thomas Hooker's church at Cambridge, MA & Hartford, CT.

  • Sources 
    1. [S215] Henry Porter Andrews, Descendants of John Porter of Windsor CT 1635-1639, (1893 ,).



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