Person:Stephen Hart (3)

Name^[1]	Deacon Stephen Hart
Alt Name^[2]	Deacon Stephen Heart
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Bef 1599	EnglandBased on estimated date of first marriage.
Marriage	Bef 1624	to Unknown (25353)
Emigration^[1]	1633
Residence^[1]	1633	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Other^[1]	14 May 1634	Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Residence^[1]	1636	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Military^[1]	1637	Served in Pequot War.
Residence^[1]^[3]	Bef 1652	Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage	Aft 1678	to Margaret Unknown
Will^[1]^[2]	16 Mar 1682/83	Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death^[1]^[2]	Bet 16 Mar 1682/83 and 31 Mar 1683	Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesBetween date of will and date of inventory.
Burial^[4]		Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Estate Inventory^[1]^[2]	31 Mar 1683	Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States£319 2s., of which £180 was real estate.
Probate^[1]^[2]	4 Apr 1683	Will proved.

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Will & Probate

"VOL. IV, 1677 TO 1687. PROBATE RECORDS. Page 119.

Heart, Steven, Deacon, sen., Farmington. Invt £340-04-00. Taken 31 March, 1682-3, by Thomas Heart, John Heart. Will dated 16 March, 1682-3.

I Stephen Heart of Farmington do make this my last Will & Testament : For the settleing of this my Estate, my Will is as followeth: That my Farme which I formerly have given to my three sons, John Heart, Steven Heart & Thomas Heart, the ½ of my Farme to John, ¼ to Steven, the other quarter to Thomas. I give to my gr. son Thomas Porter & to my son-in-law John Cole my plowing Land & Meadow & Swamp which was sometime part of Andrew Warner's Farme, & abutts on my son Steven Heart's Land on the North. I do give it to them to be equally (divided) betwixt them, the ingagement of my wife being fulfilled. I give to my sons Steven and Thomas Heart that 10 acres of Land which I bought of Andrew Warner, that lyes in the Farme Meadow, to be equally divided betwixt them. I give to my sons Steven and Thomas Heart and to my daughters Sarah Porter and Mary Lee, my Swamp Lott in the Great Swamp and all the rest of my Upland Divisions, divided or undivided, to be equally divided betwixt them. I give to my gr. child Dorothy Porter £10. I give to my gr. child John Lee £3. I give to my gr. child John Heart, my eldest son's son, £3. I do give to my beloved wife a little Kettle that holds about a peck, as also a colt which I gave her, which was recorded to her. And as to all the rest of my Estate, within dores and without, all dues & Debts (except 1-3 part of all my Linen, & a Cow, & £10 given to my wife, as also £5 of Annuity during her natural life in case she survive me, as may appear by a former Instrument), And as for the rest as abovesd., I give to my sons, Steven and Thomas Heart, and my beloved daughters, Sarah Porter and Mary Lee, and my son-in-law, John Cole, whom I make my Executors.

STEVEN HEART.

Witness: John Wadsworth sen., Robert Porter.

Court Record, Page 69 - 4 April, 1683: Will proven. Mrs. Margaret Heart, Ensign Thomas Heart, Sarah Porter and Mary Lee personally appeared and made oath to the Inventory."^[2]

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Connections

(from GMB): Banks suggests both Braintree, Essex, and Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, as origins for Stephen Hart [Topo Dict 41, 60]. Neither proposal has any evidentiary support. Ernest Flagg found a baptism of a Stephen Hart on 25 January 1602[/3?] at St. Nicholas, Ipswich, Suffolk, which he thought might be the immigrant [Flagg 258], but more evidence would be needed to accept this identification. Savage suggests that Stephen Hart was brother of John Hart of Marblehead and Boston or of Edmund Hart of Westfield, or of both, but without evidence.

References

↑ ^1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 ^1.11 Stephen Hart, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
869-73.

ORIGIN: Unknown.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Cambridge church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship. He would have retained his membership when the Cambridge church moved to Hartford. He certainly joined the Farmington church, as he was deacon there. [CCCR 2:193].
FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369].
BIRTH: By about 1599 based on estimated date of first marriage.
DEATH: Farmington between 16 March 1682/3 (date of will) and 31 March 1683 (date of inventory).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Deacon Steven Heart, Sr., in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
1:320-21.

Heart, Steven, Deacon, sen., Farmington. Invt. £340-04-00. Taken 31 March, 1682-3, by Thomas Heart, John Heart. Will dated 16 March, 1682-3.
4 April, 1683 : Will proven. Mrs. Margaret Heart, Ensign Thomas Heart, Sarah Porter and Mary Lee personally appeared and made oath to the Inventory.
↑ Andrews, Alfred. Genealogical History of Deacon Stephen Hart and His Descendants, 1632-1875: with an Introduction of Miscellaneous Harts and Their Progenitors, as Far as Known; to Which is Added a List of All the Clergy of the Name Found, all the Physicians, all the Lawyers, the Authors, and Soldiers. (New Britain, Conn.: Austin Hart, 1875)
39.

Deacon Hart and his first wife were constituent members of the church in Farmington, organized November, 1652, with Rev. Roger Newton pastor
↑ Stephen Hart, in Find A Grave.