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General Hart attained a high rank in society, and an unusual public esteem and consideration. The following is copied from his tombstone in the ancient burial ground on Saybrook Point: “Sacred to the memory of Major-General William Hart, eldest son of Rev. William Hart, of Saybrook, who was born June 24th, 1746, and died August 29th, 1817, in the 72d year of his age.” In youth active and enterprising, he early entered on mercantile pursuits, and sustained a character of unquestionable integrity and extensive respectability. By his talents he rose to some of the first civil and military honors of this state, and commanded unusual influence at home and abroad. He loved order, was an able counsellor, a professor of religion, a benefactor to the church, a pillar in society, and has left a memory respected by his friends, instructive to his family, and honorable to the place in which he lived. “One eye on death, and one full fixed on heaven, CHILD BY HIS FIRST WIFE, BEING THE SIXTH GENERATION.
1941. Richard William, born January 15th, 1768; married October 29th, 1795, Elizabeth Bull. SAMUEL HART, Saybrook, Conn., second son of Rev. William Hart, of the same town, and his wife, Mary (Blague), born June 24th, 1748, in Saybrook; married February 22d, 1770, Lucy, daughter of Joshua W. Bushnell, of Saybrook. He died November 8th, 1823, aged 75 years. She died October 23d, 1841, aged 87 years. THEIR CRILDREN, BEING THE SIXTH GENERATION.
Lydia, born July 18th, 1772; died November 6th, 1790, aged 18 years. JOHN HART, Saybrook, Conn., third son of Rev. William Hart, of the same town, and his wife, Mary (Blague), born September 24th, 1750, at Saybrook; married Widow Nancy Bull, who died August 20th, 1825, aged 69 years. He was a merchant at Saybrook. He resided also in Hatfield, Mass., from 1793 to 1797, and he and his wife |