 1659 - 1725 (65 years)
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| Name |
John Lee [1, 2] |
| Born |
11 Jun 1659 |
Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1725 |
| Person ID |
I8220406413 |
Eby/Aebi and Bernethy Family |
| Last Modified |
24 Nov 2007 |
| Father |
John Lee, b. 1620, Braintree, Essex County, England , d. 8 Aug 1690, Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut (Age 70 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Hart, b. Abt 1635, England or Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. 10 Oct 1710, in fall from horse from Northampton to Coventry CT, over age 70 (Age ~ 75 years) |
| Married |
1658 |
Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut |
| Family ID |
F7500745308 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
4. Farmington.
JOHN HART, of Farmington, eldest son of Deacon Stephen Hart, of Braintree, Eng., Cambridge, Mass., Hartford and Farmington, Conn., born , in England, married Sarah . They resided in Farmington, where he was made a freeman by the General Court, at their May session, 1654. Sarah, his wife, joined the church at Farmington, Oct. 19th, 1653; he was admitted to the church April 2d, 1654. He was one of the first settlers of Tunxis, and bought his house lot of the original owners, and among the list of the eighty- four proprietors of 1672, is numbered the "Estate of John Hart." At the October session of the General Court, in 1660, a committee was raised to examine " Thirty Mile Island," with the view of settlement, when John Hart, of Farmington, was elected one of said committee. His sad and untimely death occurred on this wise, viz.: his house, which was located near the center of the village, was fired in the night by Indians, and he and all his family, with the exception of his eldest son, John, who was that night at Nod, or Northington, since called Avon, looking after the stock on a farm they owned there, perished in the flames. What aggravated the public calamity was the burning of the town records, at the same time. The General Court made diligent search among the Tunxis tribe for the incendiaries, but this neither restored life nor records. This fire occurred , 1666.
[This fire may not have occurred as described here. Research by David Mauro published in the July/August 1997 issue of Hart Historical Notes seems to show that no Indians were involved. Dr. C. Bickford of the Connecticut Historical Society is quoted: " The 19th century accounts of Farmington contain a lot of fiction. With- out any corroborating evidence to support Andrew's story, I had to conclude that it was without substance."
There may have been a fire of unknown origin, though. From the "Hart Family History, Silas Hart, His Ancestors and Descendants." by William Lincoln Hart, 1942, Alliance, Ohio, page 17:
"The Rev. Samuel Danforth, pastor of the first church in Roxbury kept a diary, and under the date of February 11, 1666 (O.S.) appears the following entry: "Tidings came to us from Connecticut how that on ye 15th of 10M66 Sergeant Hart, ye son of Deacon Hart and his wife, and six children were all burned in their house at Farmington, no man knowing how the fire was kindled, neither did any of the neighbors see ye fire till it was past remedy. The church there had kept a fast at this man's house two days before. One of his sons being at a farm, escaped the burning." "
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BRANCH OF JOHN HART FOLLOWS, THEIR CHILDREN BEING THIRD GENERATION.
8. Sarah, born in Farmington, about 1653, baptized Oct. 23d, 1653, burned to death in 1666.
9. John, born in Farmington, about 1655, baptized April 2d, 1655, saved from the fire, he being that night at Nod.
10. Steven, born in Farmington, July , 1657, baptized July 19th, 1657, burned to death in 1666.
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| Sources |
- [S3133897794] John Lee of Farmington, Hartford Co, Conn and His Descendants, Sarah Marsh Lee, of Norwich, CT, (Republican Record Book Print, 1878, 1st Ed.), 26.
- [S3133897591] Hutchinson, Agnes Dorlisky and Jessie, (1930's).
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