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Facts and Events
Information on John Hart
From "Settlers by the Long Grey Trail: Some Pioneers to old Augusta County", by John Houston Harrison, pg. 147:
- The Harts were from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. John and Eleanor (Crispin) Hart of this county had ten children, among whom were Joseph and Oliver and the three brothers above (Thomas, Silas & John). Joseph (1715-1788), the eldest, was a prominent patriot of Bucks County during the Revolution. Thomas, the second son, m. Mary Combs at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, in 1722. With other Bucks County Friends he settled on the Elk Branch of the Opequon, where he purchased 1,500 acres of land from Jost Hite in 1735. Oliver Hart, A.M. (1723-1795), entered the Baptist ministry in 1748, and from 1749 for over thirty years was pastor of the church at Charleston, South Carolina. He was a noted divine and the author of a number of religious works. During the Revolution he took an active part in the patriot cause. When Charleston was captured by the British in 1780 he returned to his birthplace, and later became pastor of the church at Hopewell, New Jersey, where he died, (Bucks County Pioneers in the Valley of Virginia, by S. Gordon Smyth; paper read at Friends Meeting House, Wrightstown, Pa., November 8, 1923.
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