thorough investigation, brought all his influence to bear against the system, until it was abolished in this state. He then turned his attention to the moral bearings of other great questions of the day, and lent his influence, with that of such men as Judges Sherman, Daggett, Day, and Williams, in favor of moral reformation. He thus prepared the way for an investigation of the hearings of the great moral truths of the Bible on personal character, which resulted in the union with the church of so many of the distinguished civilians of the state of Connecticut, twenty-five or thirty years since. Judge Goddard had six children, "all," he said in 1840, "the blessed comforts of my old age," viz;
        1, Charles Backus, who graduated at Yale College in 1814, and is a lawyer in Zanesville, Ohio.
        2, Alice Hart, married Asa Child, Esq.
        3, George Calvin, who graduated at Yale College in 1820, and is a lawyer in New York.
        4, Julia Tracy, who remained with her father — "the comfort of my old age."
        5, James Burrall, who lived with his father.
        6, Levi Hart, born on the day of Dr. Hart's death, He graduated at Yale College in 1828, and was admitted to the bar. He married Mary Woodbridge Perkins, and went to Ohio, but returned, and settled on a farm in Salem, which his wife inherited.

LEVI HART, Preston, Conn., youngest child of Rev. Levi Hart, of the same parish, and his wife, Rebecca (Bellamy), born in Preston, and graduated at Brown University in 1802. He was a man of superior talents and acquirements, and is supposed to have died at the south, where he became a teacher.

ASAHEL HART, New Britain, Conn., eldest son of Joseph Hart, of Northington, and his wife, Ann (Barnes), of Southington, born May 12th, 1754, at Northington; baptized May 25th, 1754, by Rev. Ebenezer Booge; married. November 5th, 1778, Anna Kilbourn, daughter of Josiah, of New Britain, and his wife, Anna (Neal), born December 24th 1759. He was a brick mason by trade and avocation. In 1791 he bought of Elisha Hart his new house, which Ezekiel Wright built on the Farmington road, near Bass River, with two acres and ten rods of land, where he lived for some years. He was a stirring, lively man, and naturally impulsive. After some years he moved to the foot of