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occupation, and lives on Mountain Street, Farmington. Their children were all born at Farmington. THEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE NINTH GENERATION.
1475. Horatio Wells, born December 30th, 1848. DEACON CHAUNCEY HART, Farmington, eldest son of Zenas Hart, of the same town, and his wife, Rachel (Lewis), born August 26th, 1810, at Farmington; married September 16th, 1832, before Rev. Luman Andrus, the Methodist minister, Sarah Jane Hooper, daughter of Philip, of Newington, and his wife, Phebe (Whaples), born January 13th, 1814, at Newington. He was a drum-major in the militia service. He is an ingenious blacksmith and fork maker, an active member and deacon of the Methodist Church, and a temperance man. He has a desirable residence in Unionville, Some eighty rods south of the railroad depot. He has a good water power and shops on the south bank of Farmington River, where he and his sons have several men in their employ, and are doing a prosperous business. He learned his trade of Ira Stanley, Jr., of New Britain, while Stanley lived in Farmington. [ There is a story that Chauncey Hart manufactured pikes that John Brown used in his raid on Harper's Ferry before the Civil War. Chauncey was arrested briefly after the raid, until he was able to demonstrate that he did not know what the pikes were intended for when he made them. ] THEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE NINTH GENERATION.
George Martyn, born November 5th, 1833; died, February, 1835, aged 2 years. 1137. Hartford, Conn.
EMILY HART, Hartford, Conn., eldest daughter of Zenas Hart, of Farmington, and his wife, Rachel (Lewis), born June 5th, 1815, at
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