Hart, John, called a Yankee because he was born in Connecticut, he was a 
child when his father, Edward Hart, moved his family to L.I., N.Y., where 
Edward  as Town Clerk was remitted to goal for having written a 
remonstrance against the persecution of the Quakers.

A record exists of the christening of John Hart in the Presbeterian 
Church of Hopewell, N.J.  Edward Hart was Captain of the militia he 
raised of volunteers called "THE JERSEY BLUES" which served in the Battle 
of Quebec.

John married Deborah Scudder, of their thirteen children John, born 29 
Oct 1748 married Catherine Knowles, their daughter Mary Hart married 
Jacob Vandergrift, their daughter Sarah Vandergrift married Jacob 
Colbaugh, their daughter Christiana Colbaugh, a twin, married John Thomas 
McCurry, their son Samuel Anderson McCurry married Anna Emma Miller, 
their daughter Nellie Walton McCurry married James Gillespie Algeo, their 
daughter Nellie Elizabeth Algeo was my mother who married my father, Paul 
John Leiby.

John Hart was known as "Honest John Hart"  He was opposed to the Stamp 
Act of 1765, Justice of the Peace, Hunterdon County, N.J. 1755, member of 
20th N.J. Assembly 1771, member of 1st Provincial Congress of N.J. 1774, 
Judge of New Jersey Court of Common Pleas 1775 - 76, Delegate to 
Continental Congress 1776, Vice President of the Continental Congress 
1776, member of the Comission of Correspondence, Signer of the 
Declaration of Independance, member of 1st Assembly under New 
Jersey Constitution, chosen Speaker 1776.

After signing the Declaration of independance John was hunted by the 
British like a common criminal through the forests of the Sourland 
mountains.  He didn't dare sleep two nights in the same place and at one 
time shared his sleeping place with a huge dog.  His cousin, Penelope 
Anderson disguised herself as a beggar, a pauper, an insane old man,  to 
get through British lines to take John food.  His son John had to leave 
the territory after the Tories burned and destroyed all the Hart 
property, home and lands, devastated cattle, scattered the family.  John 
had a servant named Jack to whom he had entrusted his dear wife Deborah 
and all he had.  Once he managed to get to see Deborah who was deathly 
ill, he was reading to her out of the Book of Isaiah in the Bible when 
Jack came to warn him the British were coming, in their haste to get 
Deborah secreted and John escape they turned over the candle burning 
through forty pages of the Bible.  This Bible was found many years later 
in an attic of an old home in Philadelphia.

John died of exposure 11 May 1779 without knowing of the success of the 
New Nation.

In 1865 the New Jersey Legislature caused a monument to be erected to the 
memory of John Hart and in the dedicatory speech the Governor, Joel 
Parker, said, "Upon careful examination of the history of New Jersey 
during and immediately preceding the Revolutionary War, I am of the 
opinion that John Hart had greater experience in the Colonial and State 
Legislation of that day than ony of his contemporaries; and that no man 
exercised greater influence in giving direction to the public opinion 
which culminated in independance."

HART, Morgan (GA): Barbara Johnson

HART, Thomas (GA): Barbara Johnson

HARRY, Andrew (PA): Carolyn Huie

HARRY, John (PA): Carolyn Huie

HARRY, Samuel (PA): Carolyn Huie

HASTY, Archibald: Nancy Becraft

HASTINGS, Henry Sr. (NC): Linda Harris

Hastings, John (MA)Louise Hastings

HATCH, Henry (CT/NY/PA): Russ Hatch

HATCH, Samuel (CT/NY): Russ Hatch

HATHAWAY, John (PA/VA): Carline H. Doyle

HATTON, Reuben (VA): Connie Berry

HAVENS, Joseph (NY): Pete Grondziowski

HAWKINS, Benjamin (NC): Carrilynn Corbin

HAWKINS, Joseph (NC): John Lannom

HAWKINS, Samuel: Mary Gail

HAWKS Jotham (NY) Ginny Buechele

HAYMOND, Edward (PA): Patricia G. Viellenave

HAYMOND, Thomas (VA): Patricia G. Viellenave

HAYMOND, William (VA): Patricia G. Viellenave

HAYS George (PA) Sue Wilson

HAYWORD/HEYWOOD, Joshua (MA): Mary S. Dobard

HEAD, Jonathan : Elizabeth Richardson

HEATON, Jabesh (NJ): Kathy Wells

HEAVNER, Jacob J. (VA): Jerry Coffman

HEBRON, JOHN (VA) Tom Cozzens

HEMENWAY Jeffery (MA)Sylvie Higgins

HENDERSON, James (NY/VT): Robert L. Cook

HENDERSON, John G. (GA): Douglas H. Stansberry

HENDERSON, Joseph (NC): Glydie A. Nelson

HENDLEY, William, SC and GACheryl Hemingway

HENDON, Isham (N C) Karen McClendon

HENDRICKSON, John (NJ): Elizabeth Gilomen

HENRY, Robert Sr. (ME): Joann Townsend

HERNDON, John (VA): Anna L. Martin

HERROLD, George C.: Dusti Ide

HERTZ, Peter (PA): Janet N. Welty

HESS, Michael (PA): Kathleen Musser

HETZLER, John B (PA): Charles Mercer

HEWITT, Charles (NJ): Debbie Malec

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