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74 HART FAMILY.

nary 22d, 1807, aged 40 years, when second she married April 6th, 1812, Samuel Porter. Their children were-Harriet, born                     , died February 16th, 1807, aged 17 years; Edwin, born about 1793, died at Troy, N. Y.; James Gates, born September 15th, 1795. He graduated at Yale in 1815, having studied for a physician, and began his practice at Charleston, S. C. He also became very popular as a poet. In 1835, in connection with Charles U. Shepard, was appointed to make a geological and mineralogical survey of Connecticut, the report of which was published in 1842. In 1854 he was appointed state geologist of Wisconsin, and at the time of his death, which occurred at Hazel Grove, Wis., May 2d, 1856, aged 61, he held the office of state geologist in Illinois. He was never married. A life of James Gates Percival, by Julius H. Ward, was published by Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1866, 1 volume, 583 pages. Oswin Hart, born about 1797 baptized at Kensington, October 29th, 1809. He was never married. Died in the hospital at New Haven.

86.
Kensington, Conn., De Ruyter, N.Y.

OLIVER HART, Kensington, third and youngest son of Matthew Hart, Kensington, and his wife, Elizabeth (Hopkins), born August 10th, 1774, at Kensington; baptized August 14th, 1774, by Rev. Samuel Clark, pastor of that church; married November 25th, 1799, Sally Bronson, of Kensington, daughter of Captain Luke, and Alma Porter, his wife, born September 1st, 1774, at Kensington. He removed to De Ruyter, Madison County, N. Y He died in 1864 at the house of an adopted daughter, in Allegany County, N. Y., aged 90 years. They have had no children.

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87.                            Danbury, Conn.

REBECCA HART, eldest daughter of Captain Samuel Hart, of Kensington, and his first wife, Rebecca, daughter of Charles Norton, born January 30th, 1760, at Kensington; married                   , William Cook, of Danbury, Conn. She died January 7th, 1823, aged 63 years. They had William, and Betsey, who married Ebenezer White, and left a son, Howard H., who married Emma Hart, daughter of Jesse.

88.                       Berlin, Kensington.

HON. CAPTAIN SAMUEL HART, eldest son of Captain Samuel Hart, of Kensington, and his first wife, Rebecca, daughter of Charles Norton, born May 17th, 1761, at Kensington; married April 8th, 1791, Mary Wilcox, daughter of Stephen, and his wife, Mary Kelsey, born March

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