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972.                               Medina, Ohio.

THOMAS HART, Burlington, fifth son of Ambrose Hart, of the same town, and his wife, Mercy (Bartholomew), born, November, 1795, at Burlington; married Amanda Barnes, and removed to Medina County, Ohio.

THEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE EIGHTH GENERATION.

        Sarah, born         ; died
        Sarah, born
        Daughter, born

973.                               Bristol, Conn.

ADNA HART, Bristol, sixth son of Ambrose Hart, of Burlington, Conn., and his wife, Mercy (Bartholomew), born at Burlington in 1797; married February 23d, 1821, Roxana Yale. He died November 21st, 1846, aged 49 years. His widow died September 15th, 1850, aged 50 years. Tombstones have been erected to their memory at the North Cemetery, Bristol.

THEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE EIGHTH GENERATION.

1267. William, born May 15th, 1822; married November 29th, 1849, Emeline Electa Thayer.
        John, born         , 1826; died April 28th, 1828, aged 2 years.
1268. John Gad, born February 1st, 1828; married November 12th, 1848, Abigail Benham.
        Caroline, born
1269. Thomas, born May 7th, 1832; married November 29th, 1855, Mary Elizabeth Dix.

974.                         Brookfield, Ohio.

ORENUS HART, Brookfield, Trumbull County, Ohio, second son of Bliss Hart, of Burlington, Conn., and his wife, Sylvia (Upson), born July 22d, 1785, in Burlington, Conn.; married September 21st, 1810, Sabra Lewis, of Hartford. They removed to Ohio, September, 1822, where they lived together nearly sixty years. He died at Brookfield, February 24th, 1871, aged 86 years. He was a man of fine intellect, and was a teacher and scholar. His widow was living in 1871 with Robert S., her only surviving son.

[ David C. Watkins and W. Lorraine Watkins, editors of *Watkins Family, Collected Letters* (in preparation), have allowed me to include a letter from Oremus Hart to Stephen D. Watkins which tells a little of life in Ohio in 1846. ]

THEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE EIGHTH GENERATION.

1270. Charles, born June 29th, 1812; married March 10th, 1841, Rachel Applegate.
1271. Robert Sloper, born June 29th, 1814; married March 16th, 1838, Mary Ann Christy.
1272. Blucher Bliss, born December 19th, 1816; died at Brookfleld, January 6th, 1844.
1273. Elizabeth Adaline, born March 10th, 1821; married January 1st, 1840, James Christy.
1274. Henry Clay, born May 1st, 1833. He was a soldier, and died at Andersonville.