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1736, in that part of Wallingford called Meriden; married February 12th, 1761, Abigail Hall, daughter of Peter, and his wife, Rebecca (Bartholomew), born May 15th, 1737. Mr. Hart was a carpenter and joiner by trade and occupation. His wife died. May 20th, 1807, aged 70 years. He removed to Barkhamsted in 1789, and died there, May 26th, 1824, aged 88 years. 
[From "THE CATALOGUE OF BARKHAMSTED, CT MEN WHO SERVED IN THE VARIOUS WARS 1775 TO 1865" BY Wallace Lee, Meriden, CT, published in 1897: In june 1776, Hawkins Hart was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Fifth Company of Colonel Dougless' Regiment in the US Army. This Regiment participated in the battle of Long Island, in the defense of New York, and in the Battle of White Plains. He moved from Wallingford to Barkhamsted about 1788 and he lived on the road to Munson's mill from the center of town. The musket above was the one used by Hawkins Hart when he was a member of the Continental Army. It is now owned by Robert D. Hart. ] THEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE SIXTH GENERATION.
1810. Rebecca, born November 23d, 1761; married January 1st, 1784, Joel Cook. JOSIAH HART, Wallingford, fifth, son of Nathaniel Hart, of Farmington and Wallingford, and his wife, Martha (Lee), born February 22d, 1741-2, at Wallingford; married January 10th, l765, Lydia Moss. He is called Josiah Hart, Jr., on the Wallingford records. After the revolutionary war he removed to Nova Scotia. [Josiah moved to Nova Scotia, Canada after the Revolutionary War (ca. 1783). Although there has been some speculation that he might have been a loyalist, there is no proof that that is the case. Lydia Moss was born Feb. 22, 1741 and died Dec. 25, 1809; 68 years old. They were first at Shelburne, Nova Scotia and later sailed up the coast of N.S. and found Guysborough Harbor; Josiah Hart settled there on the Hollowell grant with the Atwaters. He had a jewelry store in Halifax. Josiah Hart died in 1828 at 87 years of age. ] THEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE SIXTH GENERATION.
1818, Rama, born June 26th, 1766. [Married Sarah Wood, born 1753 in Saybrook, CT. She came to Guysboro at the same time as the Harts and other Loyalists did.] LIEUTENANT HAWKINS HART, Southington, second son of Hawkins Hart, of the same town, and his wife, Susannah (Merriam), born January 3d, 1736-7, at Southington, and baptized there by Rev. Jeremiah Curtiss, May 1st, 1737; married March 23d, 1758, Huldah, daughter of David Woodruff, and his wife, Mary (Porter), born 1737, and baptized June 26th, 1737, in Southington, by the pastor, Rev. J. Curtiss. They lived on East Street, in the house owned and occupied by his son-in-law, Amos Woodruff. It stood a few feet south of the residence of
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