John Hart married "(2) By about 1639 Florence Norman, daughter of Richard Norman {1626, Salem} [GMB 2:1334-36]. 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 [MHSC 4:1:17]; in the deposition which incorporated the 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 himself referred to 'your sister my wife now taken from me' [EPR 2:286-87]; 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' ' [EQC 5:124; MHSC 4:1:17-18 (a detailed account of her death)])."