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I836.                          Meriden, Conn.

WEBB HART, Meriden, eldest son of Benjamin Hart, of Southington and Wallingford, and his wife, Jerusha (Rich), born February 21st, 1786, at Meriden; married               , Clarissa Peck.

THEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE SEVENTH GENERATION.

2070. Harriet, born about 1807.
2071. Norman, born about 1809; married                     ; second
2072. Benjamin, born June 26th, 1811; married August 5th, 1835, Jane Brooks.

I838.                          Meriden, Conn.

SAMUEL IVES HART, Meriden, youngest son of Benjamin Hart, of Southington and Wallingford, and his wife, Jerusha (Rich), born November 22d, 1792, at Meriden; married September 20th, 1814, Abigail D. Hall, born August 25th, 1793. They resided in the east part of Meriden, where he died September 10th, 1870, aged 78 years.

THEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE SEVENTH GENERATION.

2073. Daniel Hall, born June 19th, 1815; married May 14th, 1840, Harriet G. Miller.
          Edmund, born August 12th, 1817; died February 16th, 1818.
2074. Jerusha, twin, born August 22d, 1822; married May 5th, 1844, Horace Pratt, of Meriden.
2075. Elizabeth, twin, born August 22d, 1822; married October 24th, 1852, Edward B. Miller, of Meriden.

I839.                        Stonington, Conn.

REV. IRA HART, Stonington, Conn., eldest son of Jonathan Hart, of Paris, Herkimer County, N.. Y., and his wife, Mary (Coe), born September 18th, 1771, at Farmington, Bristol Society, Conn. He united with the church of Yale College in 1795, where he graduated in 1797, studied theology with President Dwight, and in November, 1798, was ordained pastor of the church at Middlebury, Conn. He married, December, 1798, Maria Sherman, daughter of John, and granddaughter of Hon. Roger Sherman, of New Haven, who signed the Declaration of Independence. She died September 21st, 1857, and lacked but nine days of being 83 years old, The following is from her pen:

“‘His natural temperament was ardent,’ in the language of his friend, the writer of his obituary. By an amount of personal exertion which few have ever made, and in prospect of pecuniary embarrassment, which wonld have dismayed a mind less resolved, he carried himself through a collegiate course, and graduated with high reputation. In the personal friendship and respect of the late President Dwight he ever held a distinguished place.”

Three seasons of special revival of religion were enjoyed under his

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