came bishop. In consequence of a severe attack of paralysis he resigned his charge February 16th, 1829, and died March 16th, 1832, much beloved and lamented by his former parishioners, whose rector he had been for more than twenty-eight years. His widow was also attacked by paralysis, and died November 3d, 1841. At Hempstead he kept a private boarding schoot where his nephew—since the celebrated James Gates Percival—attended about 1809. Rev. Mr. Hart married, October 7th, 1788, Ruth, daughter of Hon. Benjamin Hall, of Cheshire.

198. William Henry, born January 5th, 1790; married             , 1815, Lydia Hubbard; second, Maria Graham.
199. Ambrose Gustavus, born October 3d, 1792; died October 15th, 1816, aged 24 years.
        Hannah Burnham, born July 16th, 1797; died, September, 1798.
        Henry William, born October 26th, 1799; died January 9th, 1813.
200. Elizabeth Ann, born May 9th, 1809; married                 , William G. Clowes, Esq.
201. Benjamin Hall, born February 13th, 1811; married, October, 1837, Elizabeth Nichols.
202. Edmund Hall, born August 7th, 1813; died August 22d, 1838, aged 25.

SARAH HART, eldest daughter of Matthew Hart, of Ken- sington, and his wife, Elizabeth (Hopkins), born September 19th, 1766, at Kensington; baptized there September 21st, 1766; married there February 7th, 1788, Bela, son of Bela Strong, of Kensington, and his wife, Eunice, born at Kensington, and baptized there July 29th, 1764. Bela, Jr., was grandson of Deacon Hart, of Durham and Kensington. He died in Kensington, August 21st, 1767, aged 72 years. Sarah Hart and her husband, Bela Strong, Jr, removed to Oak Hill Green County, N.Y.

ELIZABETH HART, second daughter of Matthew Hart, of Kensington, Conn., and his wife, Elizabeth (Hopkins), born 1769, at Kensington; baptized there December 24th, 1769, and married there, January, 1790, James Percival Jr., son of James, and his wife, Dorothy Gates, born April 20th, 1767, at East Haddam, Conn. He was a physician of prominence, and lived just west of the meeting-house in Kensington, where he died suddenly in the midst of his usefulness, Thursday, Jan-