John Hart, born in 1655, married Mary Moore, who was born 15 SEP 1664 Farmington, CT. They had Isaac Hart ¹ 27 Nov 1683 and a son also named John Hart in born in 1684 in Farmington, CT. They also had other children named Sara, Matthew, Samuel, Nathaniel, and Mary. The birthdates and Web links of information for each child are at the Dunne and Allied Family's site at: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dunne1&id=I08416.

Those children of John Hart are: Isaac² Hart b: 27 NOV 1683, John HART b: 1684 in Farmington, CT, Sarah HART b: 11 DEC 1687, Matthew HART b: 7 DEC 1690, Samuel HART b: 18 SEP 1692, Nathaniel HART b: 14 APR 1695, and Mary HART.

This Genealogy Data Page will also get you started in your research of spouses because it also lists the women who married many of the 17th-19th century early New England Hart males who lived in Farmington, CT. (The site lists many other names of people who lived in those eras.) For instance, Mary Moore, the wife of John Hart is listed with her mother's maiden name as well as her father's name.

MOORE, Mary
b. 15 SEP 1664 Farmington, CT.
d. 19 SEP 1738
Parents:

Father: MOORE, Isaac
Mother: STANLEY, Ruth

Family:

Spouse: HART, John
b. ABT. 1655 Farmington, CT.
d. 11 NOV 1714 Farmington, CT.
Parents:

Father: HART, John
Mother: Sarah,

Children:

HART, John
HART, Isaac
HART, Sarah
HART, Matthew
HART, Samuel
HART, Nathaniel
HART, Mary

See the 19^th century published genealogy book on the Hart family branches which is now online at:

 http://users.rcn.com/harts.ma.ultranet/family/andrews/p043.html.

Excerpted below is information on the particular lineage of this family of one particular Hart branch, descendants of the Capt. John Hart born in 1655, the third generation from Deacon Stephen Hart.

“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 in1666."

"[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." ]"

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.

9. Farmington. "CAPT. JOHN HART, of Farmington, eldest son of John Hart and Sarah, his wife, (who were burned to death by the burning of their house, in 1666,) born in Farmington, about 1655, and baptized there April 2d, 1655, married Mary, daughter of Deacon Isaac Moore, of Farmington, and both were admitted to the church there Nov. 24th, 1656. He was one of the appraisers of his uncle Stephen Hart's estate 1689.

"In May, 1695, he was confirmed by the General Court ensign of the Farmington train-band, and in October, 1703, was Commissioned lieutenant, and subsequently promoted Captain. He was for four successive years (1702-5) a deputy from Farmington to the General Court, and was appointed in May, 1705, one of the auditors of the Colony.

When his father's house was burned by the Indians, he was absent from home, and thus providentially saved to be the progenitor of a numerous posterity. The offices and honors thus bestowed upon him indicate that he stood high in the community. Capt. John Hart died in Farmington, Nov. 11th, 1714, aged 60 years; his wife died Sept. 19th, 1738, aged 74 years.”

THEIR CHILDREN, BRING THE FOURTH GENERATION.

11. John, born 1684, baptized Nov. 27th, 1686, married March 20th, 1706, Esther Gridley.
12. Isaac, born baptized Nov. 27th, 1686, married Nov. 24th, 1721, Elizabeth Whaples.
13. Sarah, born  baptized Dec. 11th, 1687, married Feb. 15th, 1705, Ehenezer Steele.
14. Matthew, born 1690, baptized Dec. 7th, 1690, married Jan. 10th, 1725, Sarah Hooker.
15. Samuel, born baptized Sept. 18th, 1692, married Dee. 5th, 1723, Mary Hooker.
16. Nathaniel, born baptized April 14th, 1695, married Dec. 3rd, 1719, Abigail Hooker.
17. Mary, born married John Leffingwell, Esq., of Norwich, Conn.

Also see the line of Isaac Hart at: http://users.rcn.com/harts.ma.ultranet/family/andrews/p045.html#n12

"ISAAC HART, of Farmington and Kensington, second son of Capt. John and his wife Mary (Moore), baptized Nov. 27th, 1686, in Farmington, married Nov. 24th, 1721, Elizabeth Whaples. They lived on Hart street, next west of. Worthington Village, sometimes called lower lane. The house is still standing, 1873, with the upper story projecting over lower. It is related of him that when at work in Farmington meadows, he observed a bear coming into the lot; he seized his pitchfork and mounted his horse hitched under a tree, and pursued the bear and killed it."

"This anecdote is related by his great grandson, of Candor, N. Y. He was a deacon in Kensington church, and died Jan. 27th, 1770, aged 84 years. Elizabeth, his widow, died Nov. 14th, 1777. He is said to be one of the early settlers of "Great Swamp Society." In 1753, April 27th, he headed a petition to the General Assembly for a division of this society, and the result was a new society, called New Britain in 1754, now, 1874, the town and city of New Britain."

THEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE FIFTH GENERATION,

24. Ebenezer, born Nov. 27th, 1722, married Martha .
25. Isaac, born 1724, married  Ann Mather, of New Britain.
      Elizabeth, born July l2tb, 1726, died Jan. 24th, 1726-7.
26. Mercy, born April 4th, 1729, died March 29th, 1786, aged 57 years.
27. Job, born Jan. 3d, 1731-2, married March 20th, 1755, Eunice Beckley.
28. John, born 1734, married, Hepzibah , died March 23d, 1803.
29. Lois, born  1744, married  Hezekiah Judd, died August 13th, 1825, aged 81 years.

See Job’s genealogy information at: http://users.rcn.com/harts.ma.ultranet/family/andrews/p052.html#n27

He was admitted to the Congregational Church in Worthington, Feb. 9th, 1775, soon after its organization. He died Feb. 1st, 1776, and on the 10th of March, 1789, Samuel Hart and Zachariah Hart, of Berlin, were appointed by the Court of Probate, District of Farmington, distributors of the estate of Isaac Hart, late of Berlin District - John and Anna Hart being the administrators. They set to Levi, the eldest son, a double portion, viz: £130 1s 6d.

 THEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE SIXTH GENERATION.

67. Levi, born , baptized Aug. 24th, 1765, married Martha Hart.
    Lorana, born , baptized Feb. 8th, 1767, died young.
68. Lydia, born baptized June 4th, 1769, married, Sylvester Gridley.
    Isaac, baptized Aug. 11th, 1771, died  1772.
69. Chloe, born 1774, married  Samuel Gridley.
70. Isaac, born posthumous, baptized March 9th, 1777, lived single in Hart street, Worthington.

27.        Kensington and Berlin, Conn.

"JOB HART, Kensington, third son of Isaac Hart, of the same place, and his wife Elizabeth (Whaples), born Jan. 3d, 1731-2, at Kensington, married March 20th, 1755, in Newington, by Rev. Joshua Belden, Eunice Beckley; both admitted to the church in Kensington, Dec. 19th, 1756, and from thence to the church in Worthington, at its formation. He removed to Stockbridge, Mass., about 1781, and was received into the church there in 1782, and Eunice his wife in 1792."

THEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE SIXTH GENERATION.

71. Jabish, born 1756, baptized Jan. 2d, 1757, married , Jemima Brace.
72. Candace,  baptized Feb. 8th, 1758, married Roswel1 Barnes, Oneida, N. Y.
73. Job, born  baptized March 11th, 1759, married  1784, widow Rachel Ball.
74. Harvey,  baptized Dec. 28th, 1760, died of consumption, single, Dec. 3d, 1780, aged 21 years.
75. Leverett, born , baptized June 27th, 1762, died single.
76. Eunice, born  baptized Oct. 80th, 1768, married , Abijah Williamson, Victor, N. Y.
77. Joseph, born , baptized March 17th, 1765, married , Beulah Warner.

See Jabez’s information at: http://users.rcn.com/harts.ma.ultranet/family/andrews/p069.html#n71

JABISH HART, of Kensington, eldest son of Job Hart, of same place, and his wife, Eunice Beckley, was born, 1756, at Kensington, and baptized there Jan. 2d, 1757. He married Jemima Brace. They removed to Victor, Ontario Co., N. Y., about 1785. She was admitted to the church in Stockbridge, Mass., 1782, and died May 23d, 1823. He died Dec. 20th, 1832, aged 76 years.

177. Harvey, born April 9th, 1784, married  Polly Jackson.
178. Tryphena, born Dec. 23d, 1785, married  Boughton, of Bloomfield, N.Y
179. Theodocia, born Dec. 15th, 1787, married  Cyrus Jackson.
180. John, born Oct. 20th, 1789, married Betsey Clyne.
181. Demas, born Dec. 13th, 1791.
182. Cyrus, born Nov. 25th, 1794, died Dec. 9th, 1821, aged 27 years.
183. George, born July 4th, 1797, died Aug. 6th, 1802.
184. Eunice, born May 10th, 1799, died                     , 1836.
185. Frederic, born Aug. 6th, 1802, married, Sept. 8th, 1825, Sylvia Rowley.

See Harvey’s information at: http://users.rcn.com/harts.ma.ultranet/family/andrews/p098.html#n177

177.  Victor, N.Y.

HARVEY HART, Victor, Ontario County, N. Y., eldest son of Jabish Hart, of Kensington, Conn., and subsequently of Victor, N. Y., and his wife, Jemima (Brace), born [April 9], 1784, at Stockbridge, Mass.; married Polly Jackson.

[ Information on Harvey Hart and some of his descendants has been supplied to Richard Hart by David Downes.]

THEIR CHILDREN, BEING THE EIGHTH GENERATION.

374. William, born [October 17, 1810 in Victor, Ontario Co., N.Y.]
375. John, born
376. Martha, born
377. Eunice, born
378. Chauncey, born

After William Hart, this family’s line continues with William’s son, George Washington Hart, b. 1839,  Homer Vincent Hart Senior, b. 1875, and Homer Vincent Hart junior b. 1911. (The many living relatives are left off this genealogy to respect their privacy.)

For a look at all the Hart family genealogy prior to 1875, the book is online at: http://users.rcn.com/harts.ma.ultranet/family/andrews/p039.html

More Notes & Sources:

Sources:

Also see similar information below at: http://www.bankert.org/genreport/p26.htm.

1.   Robert Charles Anderson The Great Migration Begins, 869-873.

2.    Register of the Society of Colonial Wars.

In another genealogy listing, Deacon Stephen Hart was born circa 1599 in England.1 His second wife is listed as Margaret. There's no mention in that source for Margaret's surname.  Margaret is mentioned as a widow  1678.1 It's interesting that Margaret is listed as the widow of two previous husbands--Joseph Nash and Arthur Smith, which would make Stephen Hart Margaret's third husband. In that listing at the Bankert genealogy Web site, Stephen Hart is listed as having died between 16 March 1683 and 31 March 1683 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Conn., at about age 84.1       When you check out the source for immigration to Cambridge before 1632, Stephen Hart's name appears in Cambridge. Back in 1634, Cambridge was called Newtown. Stephen Hart is listed as of May 14, 1634 as being a Freeman. He works as a Deacon in the church of Reverend Thomas Hooker, according to the Bankert Web site, which lists the source on Stephen Hart as the book titled The Great Migration, by Robert Charles Anderson, and Register of the Society of Colonial Wars. It's notable that Stephen Hart's military service is listed as serving in 1637 under under Mason in the Pequot Indian War.2 A decade passes before Stephen Hart appears in Public Office: between 1647 and 1655 . He becomes one of the first representatives at the General Court, and again in 1660. Stephen Hart also is listed as the founder/proprietor: Hartford, CT in 1635 and of  Farmington, CT in 1650. The Bankert Web site lists Stephen Hart's birth date in Braintree, England as about 1599. Other sources list Hart as being born in Essex in 1605, and another source lists him as being born in Ipswich in 1602. (Braintree is in Essex.) About 1632  Stephen Hart is listed in t Cambridge (formerly Newtown), Massachusetts. He's noted as being one of the fifty-four original settlers. According to the Bankert Web site, Stephen Hart might have been a brother of Edmund Harte of Weymouth and Westfield Massachusetts. Edmund Harte is listed in New England at the same time. Could all the 17th century New England Harts have  been related if they appear close by at the same period of time? Thomas Hooker worked with Stephen Hart. He lived in a house across the street from Thomas Hooker. Also, Stephen Hart worked as a deacon of Reverend Thomas Hooker's church in Cambridge, MA and moved with Thomas Hooker in 1635 to Hartford, Conn. By 1639, Stephen Hart continued as Deacon and then became the original proprietor of the church. Hart's name appears on the founders' monument in the Center Church burial ground in Hartford, CT. It has been said that Hartford got its name from a crossing of the Connecticut river that Stephen Hart discovered, known as Hart's Ford. Other sources note that Hartford could have been named after the English town of Hertford. Stephen Hart served as a soldier in the Pequot Indian War in 1637. Based on his military service, Hart soon earned a lot in Soldier's Field, located in  Hartford, Connecticut.

     Children of Deacon Stephen Hart:

Sarah Hart+   (c 1624 - 1697)
John Hart+   (c 1630 - 1666)
Stephen Hart   (c 1634 - 18 Sep 1689)
Mary Hart+   (c 1638 - 10 Oct 1710)
Capt. Thomas Hart   (c 1640 - 27 Aug 1726)
Rachel Hart   (c 1642 - a 1689)

 Notes received from Richard Hart which he received from David Downes in 1999, on George Washington Hart include the following research:"GEORGE WASHINGTON9 HART  (WILLIAM8, HARVEY7, JABEZ JABISH6, JOB5, ISAAC4, <<CAPTAIN>> JOHN3, JOHN2, <<DEACON>> STEPHEN1)was born March 30, 1839 in Victor, Ontario, NY, and died January 02, 1918 in Lincoln Street, Hudson, Mich.He married ADELINA EMMA HEYDENBERK June 04, 1874 in Hudson, Lenawee, MI, daughter of JOHN HEYDENBERK and ELIZABETH KETTLE. She was born November 30, 1848 in Medina, Lenawee, MI,and died February 20, 1920 in Hudson, Lenawee, MI.

Notes for GEORGE WASHINGTON HART: Burial Maple Grove Cemetery, Hudson, Michigan, McEldowney and Sons Lenawee County Directory 1897, general farm PO, Medina res. 1/2 m n w 1/2 n 1 n w, sec 33 Hudson,Twp." Sources: 1920 Census Maryland, Washington County (Hagerstown) Film 1,820,676 ED no 152 Sheet No. 12 Line 64.

"Children of George Washington Hart: 1. HOMER VINCENT HART, SR., b. October 15, 1875, Medina, Lenawee, MI; d. June 17, 1945, Hudson, Lenawee, MI. 2. DORA ELIZABETH HART, b. July 26, 1877, Hudson, Lenawee, MI; d. February 04, 1962, Chelsea, MI   Methodist Home. Dora Elizabeth Hart is buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery, Hudson, Michigan. She worked as a school teacher in Dist No 3, Norton District, p.o. and res. Geo W Hart, Hudson Twp. 3.WALTER THOMPSON HART, b. May 15, 1883, Medina, Lenawee Co., Mich; d. April 07, 1919, Massilon, Ohio. WALTER THOMPSON HART worked in steel mills in Massilon,Ohio. He's buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Hudson, Michigan. 4.ARTHUR LASON HART, b. April 1886, Medina, Lenawee County, MI; d. April 28, 1947, Paw Paw, Van Buren, MI; m. ELIZABETH ROCKWELL, September 1912, Hudson, Lenawee, MI."

Homer Vincent Hart, Sr.

HOMER VINCENT HART, SR. generation 10 from Deacon Stephen Hart,  (GEORGE WASHINGTON 9, WILLIAM8, HARVEY 7, JABEZ JABISH 6, JOB 5, ISAAC 4,<CAPTAIN> JOHN 3, JOHN 2, <DEACON> STEPHEN 1) was born October 15, 1875 in Medina, Lenawee, MI, and died June 17, 1945 in Hudson, Lenawee, MI.  He married VERA DELL PALMER October 10, 1908 in Hudson, Lenawee, MI, daughter of LANGFORD WRIGHT PALMER and MARY HIGLEY. She was born January 17, 1881 in Hudson, Lenawee, MI, and died September 23, 1975 in Adrian, MI.

Census

Homer Vincent Hart was only four years old when he appeared on the 1880 census place taken at Hudson, Lenawee, Michigan. The source information is Family History Library Film number 1254591. NA Film Number T9-0591, page number 262A. His father and mother's birthplace is listed as Michigan. Homer Vincent Hart married Vera Dell Palmer in Hudson, Lenawee, Michigan on Oct. 15, 1908. Homer Vincent Hart and Vera Dell Palmer reared eight children: including Margaret Dora, b. 1909, Homer Vincent, b. 1911, John George, b. 1913, Robert Langford, b. 1916, and Richard Kenneth, b. 1918. The names of the rest of the children who are still living will not be mentioned on this public Web site.

From Homer Vincent Hart, Junior, born in 1911, our family descends. Note there is Homer Vincent Hart (senior) born around 1875/6 and his son, Homer Vincent Hart (junior) b. 1911- d.1989.  Homer Vincent Hart, Senior and Vera Dell Palmer had eight children. Some are still living. So their names will not be made public or entered in this genealogy page to preserve their privacy.

The grandchildren also will not be included here as it is my policy never to write information about or make public the names of living people. If you're one of the living people who wishes to be included, then you need to send me in writing a letter of permission. Otherwise, it's in the best interest of those living not to have their names made public on a Web site. I did not include my husband's name or any other descendants who are living.

Homer Vincent Hart, born in 1911 in Hudson, Michigan is my husband's father. Homer Vincent Hart passed on in 1989. So going back generation by generation and finding the son that each male grand parent is descended from leads back to Stephen Hart. The source up to 1875 is Elaine Hart Kerskie of Victor, Ontario Co., NY, book 1940 Genealogys & Vital Records. Other sources could be the various government and military indexes online, especially for more recent dates.

As for Homer Vincent Hart, Senior, the 1910 census lists Homer's age as 34. He's in West Grants Pass Precinct, Josephine, Oregon with his wife Vera.  This puts his birth date as about 1876. The 1900 census has a birth date for Homer as November 1875. (The 1900 census showed him then as age 24.)  This Homer Hart born in MI in 1875 or 1876 has a sister named Dora. Homer Vincent Hart and Vera Dell had a child named Margaret Dora born in 1909.

According to the 1910 census "Family 23. Hart, Homer V. 34 M2 MI MI MI...Vera Wife, 29, M2, 1 child 1 living. MI MI OH.....Margaret. Daughter. 9/12 OR MI MI. Palmer, Langford W. Father-in Law, 60. MI NY NY...Harold Brother-in-law 22.. MI MI OH.

In the census of 1910, there's a listing  "1910 Hudson, Lenawee, MI. Hart, George W. 71, NY NY NY. Langford Wright Palmer is living with his daughter and her husband, Homer Hart. Margaret is a toddler. Other people in the household are listed as Addie E. 61, MI NY NY...Arthur L. 24 MI NY MI (Fireman), and ...Dora E. 32 MI NY MI (teacher, public school).

In the 1900 census at Lenawee, Hudson, Michigan, family 172: Hart, George is listed as being born in 1839 61 m25 NY NY NY. His wife is listed as Addie, No. 1849, age 51. m24 ...4 children... 4 living MI NY NY. Children include: Homer, Son born Nov. 1875, 24, MI NY MI. Dora is listed as the daughter, born Dec. 1877, age 22, MI NY MI. Walter, a son was born May 1883, 17, MI NY MI. Arthur a son was born April 1886, age 14 MI NY MI.

So that verifies the line of Harts starting with Deacon Stephen Hart, born 1605, Essex, England, directly related from the males to Homer Vincent Hart, born in 1911 in Hudson, Michigan, the father of my husband. Birthdates and names of his parents are on my husband's birth certificate. I can look up the 1880 census from http://www.familysearch.com where it lists Homer as a four-year-old with his dad, George. Now that I've found the links back to Stephen Hart and Walter Palmer, what will the DNA tests show? Will the Y-chromosome go in a line back to the founder? Can anyone actually be found who wants to take a DNA test to link genealogy with genetics?

In 1870 George is not in the census in Michigan. The year of the 1870 census there are no Harts in Lenawee county. He could be with his parents. Looking up George Hart, there were many born in NY around the same date. So the next step would be to see whether Homer Vincent Hart's 1911 birth certificate lists his parents birth dates. Since George Hart died after 1910, there could be an obituary in the newspaper that might mention the names of his children. If the death certificate is researched, it would probably have his parent's names, but if he's from New York, it might be difficult to find that line of research.

Another channel to research would be when George W. Hart applied for a Civil War pension. The place to look is the Civil War list to query about Michigan information--where to go to send away for data. Many applied for pensions, but on one pension application, records report that George W. Hart applied for a Civil War pension on April 26, 1889. The application number was #700929, cert: # 731396. Could that be him?

Another excellent Web site address might be http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dunne1&id=I08612. Or I could try http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dickdutton&id=I147864.

Regarding Homer Hart's father, George W. Hart (George Washington Hart), the first step would be to find out which unit would be in the Lenawee, Hudson, Michigan county. There also was a George W. Hart that filed for a pension. With so many George Harts in the Civil War, it had to be narrowed down to George Washington Hart of Hudson, Michigan who is the father of Homer Vincent Hart born around 1875. In the 1880 census Homer was four years old.

The 1880 US census notes that Homer Vincent Hart is the son of George Washington Hart, born Nov. 30th 1839. In another online index I later found out George died Feb. 25th 1920. Back on the 1880 US census, George's wife and children are listed along with the city in which they live (Hudson, MI). The next step is to turn to the Dunne and Allied Family's index at www.RootsWeb.com. It shows George Washington Hart is the son of William Hart, born Oct. 17th 1810 who died Nov. 16th 1889.

Note: William Hart was his second born, having been born on  10/17/1810.  But all his siblings are listed as having been born after 1810.  So there either needs to have been a seventh sibling born before 1810, or William was not the second born.  Anyone have a good source on the correct dates or birth order regarding William Hart?

William Hart's father was Harvey Hart, born April 9 1784. Harvey Hart's dad was Jaluish Hart, born Jan 1, 1757. And Jaluish Hart's dad was Job Hart, born Jan.3, 1730/31. Job Hart's dad was Isaac Hart, born 27 Nov. 1683.

Note: Regarding Harvey Hart:  Information from Richard Hart notes, "An alternate birth date for Harvey's birth date is listed as Apr. 9, 1784 and his marriage is listed as Apr. 3, 1792.  If this were correct, he would only be 8 years old at the time of his wedding, which is probably not right.  Also the time between his wedding date and his first child is 18 years, again a bit suspicious.  Based on Harvey's birth date and the births of his children, I might expect that Harvey and Polly were married about 1809 or 1810." Anyone have other dates for these events?

Sergt. Isaac Hart found in the Marriage Index: Connecticut, 1635-1860. Isaac Hart married Elizabeth Wheples on: Nov 24, 1721 in: Farmington, Hartford, CT. Information is found in the Family history library microfilm roll info: microfilm reference number: Roll number: 1315116 items 3 and 4 . Isaac Hart's father was John Hart, born on April 2, 1655 in Farmington, CT. And John Hart's father was Stephen Hart born in 1605 in Essex, England. Stephen Hart was a church Deacon. A biography is presented at the  Descendants of Stephen Hart Web site at: http://users.rcn.com/harts.ma.ultranet/family/harts/.

There is also a biography in the volume titled: New England Families, Vol. III page 1549. The page reads: "Deacon Stephen Hart, the immigrant, was father of John Sr., coming from Braintree, county Essex, England, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1632, and to Hartford in 1636, finally locating in Farmington, where he died in 1682-83 aged seventy-seven." Also see Family History of Central NY, Vol. I, page 485-8 shows the family story of this line. Online, you can check out the name Stephen Hart and his descendants back to George Washington Hart  from the Roots Web site http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dunne1&id=I08612.

Also check out the RootsWeb.com Web site at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com for other searches. My piece of the puzzle was to verify through the 1910 census whether the names matched with the descendants of Homer Vincent Hart who married Vera Dell Palmer in 1908. The last piece in the puzzle focused on verifying that this was the same Homer Vincent Hart who lived in Josephine, Oregon in 1910 with his wife, Vera and baby daughter, Margaret, who was a familiar relative to my husband when he was a child. Margaret was born around 1909. Various other relatives are mentioned in the census as living with the family.

 My husband, the child of Homer Vincent Hart, born in 1911 is the son of Homer Vincent Hart born in 1875/6 as listed in the census of 1880, 1900 and 1910. A birth date of 1879 is listed in the Family History Library, Salt Lake City. That Family History Library records his marriage in 1908 in Michigan. So Homer Vincent Hart's dad is the George Washington Hart who applied in 1889 for a pension for service in the Civil War on April 26, 1889, the same year in which George Washington Hart's own dad, William Hart passed away on Nov. 16th 1889.

Homer Vincent Hart married Vera Dell Palmer in 1908 in Hudson, Michigan. My husband remembered their daughter, Margaret when he was young. By the time the 1910 census is taken, Homer Hart's family is living in Oregon with their daughter, Margaret and other members of the family mentioned in the census, including the father-in-law, Langford Wright Palmer. George W. Hart is living back in Michigan.

George Washington Hart is descended from Stephen Hart,  born in 1605 who also is the early Cambridge, New England settler from 1632. George Washington Hart's son, Homer Vincent Hart, born in 1875/6 married Vera Dell Palmer in Hudson MI in 1908 according to records at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT and census records.

The Palmers are easy to find and trace back to Walter Palmer by researching online the Walter Palmer Society. Vera is descended directly from the sixth child of Walter Palmer named Gershom, born in 1644. Now, the genealogy task is to trace back for the Hart family. Yes, this is an adventure. How about a DNA-driven genealogy time capsule? Thank you, Crystal from MyWebTree for guiding me by email to the 1880,1910, and 1900 census online which verified the recognizable names.

Are you related to Vera Dell Palmer and/or Homer Vincent Hart?

Vera Dell Palmer is related to Walter Palmer (1585-1661) born in Yetminster Parish, England. Walter's mother was Elizabeth Carter. Walter died in Stonington, CT in 1661. Vera Dell Palmer is descended from Walter Palmer through his son, Gershom Palmer 1644-1718, from his second wife, Rebecca Short, whom he married in 1633. Genealogy links to all these Palmers may be found on the Walter Palmer Society Website. The Walter Palmer Society Web site is at http://www.walterpalmer.com/ or at:  http://www.walterpalmer.com/WPS.wbg/wga87.html#I20605. According to the Walter Palmer Society's Web site,  Walter Palmer, as a Separatist Puritan, in an effort to seek religious freedom, on April 5, 1629  sailed from Gravesend England on a boat called "Four Sisters" - one of six ships; the others being the Talbot, Lyons Whelp, George Bonaventure, Lyon, and The Mayflower.

Walter arrived in Salem, Massachusetts on June of 1629 and settled in Charlestown Massachusetts with his five children and Abraham Palmer, perhaps his brother. Vera Dell Palmer's father was Langford Wright Palmer, born January 20th 1851 in Dover township, MI. From Langford Wright Palmer, moving back in time by generations, each male Palmer is linked eventually to Walter Palmer, born in 1585, who had 12 children, five from his first wife and seven from his second wife, Rebecca Short. When seeking sources, start with the original books used as sources and birth certificates as well as searching similar resources online. Military records and the census also help locate people over time.

To continue the genealogy, here is a sample of the children of Homer Vincent Hart that links to Vera Dell Palmer from the Walter Palmer Society Web site. If you're related to a Palmer, check out the Walter Palmer Society Web site. It will lead you to your other relatives as well. It's incredible how many people are direct descendants of any one of the twelve children of Walter Palmer who lived in Massachusetts and Connecticut in the 17th century, and spouses with most birthdates, death dates, and marriage dates are included on the site. I highly recommend the site to search for anyone who might be related to, descended from, or married to a Palmer at any time in history on this side of the world.

Our family’s original ancestor this side of the world was Walter Palmer whose mother was Elizabeth Carter, born in Yetminster Parish, England in the mid-1500s. Walter Palmer’s genealogy Web links with our family’s descendants are found at the Walter Palmer Society’s Web site at: http://www.walterpalmer.com/WPS.wbg/wga29.html#I6787

Walter Palmer’s son, Gershom Palmer, 1644-1718, born in Seacuncke, Plymouth Colony, Antient Rehoboth, was the sixth child of seven from Walter Palmer and his second wife, Rebecca Short. Gershom Palmer married Ann Denison, and had a son, George Palmer, the fifth of ten children born in 1678 who died in Stonington, Connecticut in 1728.  George Palmer married Hannah Palmer in 1710 and had five children. The second child was Zebulon Palmer, born in 1714. He married Comfort Fairbanks in 1743 in Stonington, CT. Zebulon Palmer had a son also named Zebulon Palmer (junior) born in 1740. He was the third child of three.

Zebulon (junior) married Deborah York in 1743 at Stonington, CT. Zebulon Palmer and Deborah York had Jairus Palmer, the sixth child of seven born in 1758. Jairus Palmer married Sarah Spencer and had a son also named Jairus (junior) who was born the 18^th of November, 1785 in Voluntown, CT, married Sarah Eells in 1808. Their son, John Celestine Palmer, was born in Ira, New York on June 18th 1824, the seventh of eight children.

John Celestine Palmer married Martha Ann Smith in 1849 in Ira, Cayuga Co., NY. The couple’s first child, a son, born on January 20^th 1851 in Dover township, Michigan, was named Langford Wright Palmer. John Celestine Palmer and Martha Ann Smith had four children. Langford Wright Palmer married Mary Permelia Higley in Medina, Michigan. They had three children, Percy Earl Palmer in 1876, Vera Dell Palmer in 1881, and Harold D. Palmer in 1888. Vera Dell Palmer was our family’s grandma and link to the original Walter Palmer born in 1585.

Vera Dell Palmer was born January 17^th 1881 in Hudson, Michigan. Vera Dell Palmer married Homer Vincent Hart on October 15^th, 1908 in Hudson, Michigan. Homer Vincent Hart was born in Hudson, Lenawee, Michigan in 1875/6. The Family History Library in Salt Lake City lists the birth date as 1879 on one record that contains the date of marriage to Vera Dell Palmer in 1908 in Hudson, MI.

Each 1880, 1900, and 1910 census list his birth date as 1875/6 or list his age as 51 in 1900 or 61 in the 1910 census. Vera Dell Palmer and Homer Vincent Hart had eight children. The names of the children who are no longer living are:  Margaret Dora Hart, Homer Vincent Hart, John George Hart, Robert Langford Hart, and Richard Kenneth Hart, all born between 1909 and 1918. Their second child, born on January 27^th 1911 in Hudson, Michigan also was named Homer Vincent Hart (junior).

Homer Vincent Hart (junior) born in 1911, d. 1989,  married Hazel Ridenour. Homer Vincent Hart (junior) and Hazel Ridenour had two children born in the 1930s. (Never put the names of living people online in a genealogy site as privacy must be preserved.) One of those two is my husband of many decades. That’s the genealogy connection. At last I can visualize a long line of people lined up in a row representing each century and each branch joining a tree growing from a rock by the seashore.

Genealogy has revealed in a time capsule how my husband connects to both Stephen Hart and Walter Palmer, according to the surname list at the Walter Palmer Society Web site link at: http://www.walterpalmer.com/WPS.wbg/wgasurs.html. Check your own name as there are hundreds of names and links descended from Walter Palmer. Yes, we are all part of history anywhere in the world. This really is an adventure and a journey. Let's make time capsules that link all of us through the generations. That's what intergenerational life stories are all about.

The list starts with Stephen Hart and Walter Palmer arriving in sister ships, "The Lyon" and "The Four Sisters" in the new world which links the genealogy records back to Walter Palmer's mother, Elizabeth Carter in 1585 England. (I wonder whether he or his mom or dad of the same name ever experienced a Shakespeare play--live?)

Stephen Hart and Walter Palmer find themselves in Massachusetts around 1632 and then in Connecticut a few years later. Who would think that hundreds of years later that one of the male children descended from the male children of Stephen Hart would marry the one of the female children descended from one of the male children of Walter Palmer after so many generations?

Through Walter Palmer's son, Gershom Palmer, each son in each generation finally links to our family grandma, Vera Dell Palmer. The male lineage would continue through Langford Wright Palmer's brothers. The female link joins Vera Dell Palmer to Homer Vincent Hart. So there should be lots of relatives out there.  Vera Dell Palmer's father was Langford Wright Palmer, born in 1851. Her mother was Mary Permelia Higley, born in 1853. Vera Dell Palmer was born Jan. 17th 1881 in Hudson, MI. She married Homer Vincent Hart Oct. 15, 1908 in Hudson, MI. The children of Vera and Homer born in Hudson, Lenawee, Michigan are Margaret Dora, born 1909, Homer Vincent, born 1911, John George, born 1913, Robert Langford, born 1916, and Richard Kenneth, born, 1918.

Genealogy projects can be an adventure in historical research and a journey in a time capsule. New projects could also include DNA-driven genealogy, old photos, and information about those relatives who served in various wars such as the Revolutionary War in the 18th century, the Civil War, or similar historical events and how they relate to records and/or photos or paintings of various ancestors. All these names and dates are part of keepsake albums that may be put into a time capsule and sent to future generations from any or all branches of this lineage. Visualize how many descendants must exist of all the children.

Each generation had anywhere from twelve children in the earlier generations to three to five children by the early to mid-19th century. Those children who survived began branches of the same tree. So there must be quite a number of descendants of Stephen Hart or just John Hart, his surviving son who had seven children. Our Hart family lineage comes from Isaac Hart. The other children have branches also, and these are more genealogy projects to explore. Like archaeology, DNA-driven genealogy may be another journey in time.

Primary Sources:

Elaine Hart Kerskie of Victor, Ontario Co., NY, book 1940 Genealogys & Vital Records.
FTM Genealogical Library, New England Families, Vol. III page 1549.
FTM Genealogical Library, Compendium of American Gen., Vol. VII, page 49.
FTM Genealogical Library, Families of Early Guilford, CT Vol. I, page 605.
FTM Genealogical Library, Family History of Central NY, Vol. I, page 485-8.

Compendium of American Gen., Vol. VII, page 49 says: Capt. John Hart (1655-1714), he alone of his father's family escaped being burned to death, Dec 15, 1666; Capt. Colonial troops in Queen Anne's War. 1703; dep. Gen. Ct. 4 yrs; m Mary Moore (d1738). There's confusion as there are many John Harts descended from the earliest John Hart, and the sons of Capt. John Hart have many descendants, some also named John Hart among others. Also, there's no way to know whether the story about the fire or who set it and who survived as written on the Internet is clear. So you have to go to the primary sources to find out what happened or could have happened.

Sergt. Isaac Hart found in:
Marriage Index: Connecticut, 1635-1860.
Married: Nov 24, 1721 in: Farmington, Hartford, CT.
Family history library microfilm roll info: microfilm reference number
Roll number: 1315116 items 3 and 4.
1880 US Census, Hudson, Lenawee, Michigan. The US 1880 Census is searchable at: http://www.familysearch.com. 

Application for Civil War Pension, April 26, 1889. The application number was #700929, cert: # 731396.                                                                                                                                     1900 US Census, Hudson, Lenawee, Michigan.

1910 Census, Hudson, Lenawee, Michigan.

1910 US Census, West Grants Pass Precinct, Josephine, Oregon.

Walter Palmer Society Web link at: http://www.walterpalmer.com/WPS.wbg/wgasurs.html.

Family History Library, Salt Lake City Utah (birth and marriage records).

US Social Security Death Index 30 September 2000. Family Search ^(TM)  Web site at: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/SSDI/individual_record.asp?recid=383184892&1d.   

Descendants of Stephen Hart Web site is at: http://users.rcn.com/harts.ma.ultranet/family/harts.                                        

"Deacon Stephen Hart's Will" site at: http://users.rcn.com/harts.ma.ultranet/family/harts/DeaStephenWill.shtml.

"Passenger Lists for the Lyon" Web site at: http://www.whipple.org/docs/lyon.html.

The Dunne and Allied Family's index at www.RootsWeb.com 

The Dunne & Allied Family's  at: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dunne1&id=I08416.

For your own genealogy searches documents and records searching could include court and medical records, census searches, notary records of land and home transfers in various nations, schools, orphanages, hospitals, institutions, schools, farm land grants, and even pet licenses. Working with libraries and even university training programs for librarians also may be helpful. There also are the oral and personal history associations and message boards.

Books:

Banks, Charles Edward, The Planters of the Commonwealth 1620 1640, (1930).

Morgan, Edmund S., The Puritan Dilemma, The Story of John Winthrop, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, (1958).

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,

Boston.

Paget, Harold, Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement, Mantle Ministries, San Antonio, (1988).

Paige, Lucius R., History of Cambridge, Boston (1877).

Associations Helpful for Your Research Interests:

National Genealogy Society                                             http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/                                                                                               

Association of Personal Historians http://www.personalhistorians.org/                                                                                                    

Oral History Association

http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha/      

There's an email group and mailing list for Deacon Stephen Hart's descendants or those interested in Deacon Stephen.
To learn more about the Deacon Stephen group, please visit
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DeaconStephen         

George Washington Hart's Newspaper Obituary--Local Newspaper, Hudson, Lenawee County, Michigan--Jan 2, 1918 is written on the news clip. However, as a source, The book written by Elaine Hart Kerskie of Victor, Ontario Co., NY, published in  1940 titled: Genealogys & Vital Records, gives the date of George Washington Hart's passing as 25 FEB 1920. His birth date is given as 30 NOV 1839, whereas the news clip obituary lists his birth date as March 30th, 1839. Note that sometimes baptism and birthdates were listed alternatively. In the book, Genealogys & Vital Records, it is the date of George's wife, Addie Hydenberk, death that is listed as 2 JAN 1918. The couple's marriage date is listed in the book as 4 JUN 1874.

The town of Hudson, Michigan was very small, with about 2,100 inhabitants. There were many farms, and even today, it's still has a small population.

 Also, there are two spellings of Addie Hydenberk. The book lists one spelling as Addie WYDENBECK. Another source lists Adelina Hydenberk, which is the most frequently listed spelling . The death certificate of Homer Vincent Hart senior, son of George Washington Hart, lists the spelling of his mother's name as Addie Hydenberg, born in Medina, Michigan. George Washington Hart's birthplace is listed as New York, probably Victor, NY. Homer Vincent Hart is listed as a civil engineer who worked for the Hardie Mfg. Co. Homer's birthplace is listed as Hudson, Michigan. His birth date is listed as Oct. 15, 1876. Below is the news clip obituary of George Washington Hart.
                                                

MARY² LEE (John¹), daughter of (1) John¹ and (RA-3) Mary (HART) LEE, was born on 14 Aug. 1664 in Farmington, Hartford^[1], was christened in Farmington, Hartford, and died on 15 Feb. 1715/6 in Waterbury^[1]. She married in Farmington, Hartford, on 28 Dec. 1682, (AIS-2) STEPHEN UPSON^[1], son of (AIS-1) Thomas and Elizabeth (FULLER) UPSON, who was born in 1655 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, and died on 5 Nov. 1735 in Waterbury. ^{[2, 1].} Children: See (AIS-2)  Stephen UPSON at the Web site: http://armidalesoftware.com/issue/full/Thaler_1066_main.html#N1

Resources: 1. Steve Condarcure, "Steve Condarcure's New England Genealogy", http://newenglandgenealogy.pcplayground.com/.
2. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File (R)", Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998.

See Also: The History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut at: http://www.langeonline.com/Webster/webster1.html

Also see at the Webster site mentioned above material on Rev. Thomas Hooker's Journey from New Towne to Connecticut. Stephen Hart moved from New Towne to Connecticut with this group or company.  See: The Colonial History of Hartford (1914) by - The Rev. William DeLoss Love, Ph.D., of Hartford, CT . He documented these pioneers that located their house lots on the north side at that time, namely, Elder William Goodwin, John Steele, William Westwood, Thomas Scott, Stephen Hart, William Pantry, John Barnard, William Butler, William Kelsey, Nathaniel Ely, Nicholas Clark, Richard Webb, Richard Goodman, Edward Elmer, Mathew Marvin, Thomas Stanley,—sixteen.

Tracing the Female Lineages Descended from Deacon Stephen Hart

As you know, Deacon Stephen Hart's grandson, John b. 1655, had many children. Each family descended from those children who reproduced. Each generation descended from Stephen Hart had between 6 and 9 children or more per generation until relatively modern times. Many survived, both males and females. The books on Hart descendants usually list the names of the wives and also sometimes the wives' fathers.

If the mtDNA of each wife of a descendant of Stephen Hart was tested, each wife would have a different sequence passing her mtDNA to her daughter. Only the males with the same surname would pass on their Y chromosome markers to the next generation of males with the surname, Hart.

Here is a list of the maiden names of the wives of Hart descendants from only one lineage--Stephen-John-John-Isaac-Job-Jabish-Harvey-William-George W.-Homer Vincent Sr.-Homer Vincent Jr. The wives' maiden names (until around 1875) are listed in the Andrews book which also is online. The CD would have updated information.

Multiply this list of wives' maiden name from only one lineage by having six to nine children per family. Then think of Hart's daughters and the various husbands they married. Imagine how many other lineages there are to trace.

If you wanted to know Deacon Stephen Hart's mtDNA, you'd have to first find out the name of his mother and all daughters and grand daughters descended from only her female line to the present looking at mother to daughter.

If you didn't know Stephen's mom's name and line of females descending from her, you wouldn't be able to find her mtDNA unless you found a lineage descended from female cousins of Stephen Hart who were descended from Stephen's mom's sisters or grandmother's sisters.

It might be easier to find women descended from his first wife, Sarah to trace his daughter's mtDNA. To find out all women descended from his first wife, Sarah, you'd trace all women descended from Stephen's wife, Sarah, such as Stephen Hart's daughter Mary Hart who married John Lee. One of her daughters was Tabitha Hart.

Or trace daughter also named Sarah Hart who married Thomas Porter. If other daughters reproduced females, you'd follow their lineages to the present to find out the mtDNA or the female lineage DNA of Stephen Hart's first wife. Here's a list of the wives' maiden names of just one lineage descended from Deacon Stephen, our male family's lineage.

Stephen Hart - Elizabeth, nicknamed Sarah
John - Sarah
John - Mary Moore
Isaac - Elizabeth Whaples
Job - Eunice Beckley
Jabish - Jemima Brace (Revolutionary war period) (Moves from
Farmington to Victor, NY 1785)
Harvey - Polly Jackson
William - Zillah Deuel Thompson
George Washington Hart - Adelina (Addie) Hydenberk
Homer Vincent Hart Sr. - Vera Dell Palmer
Next two generations after Homer Vincent Hart have living family members.

Now to trace all the wives from their maiden names, you can test the mtDNA of each woman's female relatives. Their mtDNA will always be different unless they are descended from the same female ancestor. For example, in case Stephen Hart's first wife, Sara, had a particular mtDNA sequence, she would pass it on to her daughter, Mary Hart who married John Lee.

Mary's daughter, Tabitha Hart, and any other daughters would have that same mtDNA looking only at the female line. It would be passed down 12 generations or more from mother to daughter. Somewhere out there, Stephen Hart's mother's mtDNA and his first wife, Sarah's mtDNA have been passed to different women that exist today.

Some women today carry the same mtDNA as either Deacon Stephen's mom or Deacon Stephen. Other women carry a different mtDNA sequence which would be the same mtDNA as Stephen Hart's first wife Sarah. Start tracing his first wife's daughters and their daughters. You'd also see whether any children were born from his second wife, the widow of Adam Smith.

To find out Stephen Hart's mtDNA, we would look only at his mother's mtDNA. We'd check all women descended from mother to daughter from Deacon Stephen Hart's mother. Her name may have been Elizabeth Symons of Devon, if we're looking at the correct name of the mother of Stephen Hart. First, we'd have to be sure which females are descended from his mother. What was his mother's actual name?

It probably would be easier to locate descendants of his first wife which would have passed to his daughters and to their daughters and great grand daughters. Happy tracing.

Neighbors in New Towne

Who were some of the neighbors that lived in the same town as Stephen Hart from 1631? Stephen Hart lived 400 years ago in what today is Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Deacon Stephen Hart arrived in
                  Massachusetts Bay Colony on November 2,

1631, according to some records,
                  on the ship called the `Lyon.'

However, the following passengers came in 1631
                  aboard the William and

Francis (from the London Rolls Office): Gamlin, Harris,
                  Hart, Hayward,

Hill, Levins, Mannering, Norton, Olliver, Perkins, Smallie, Thomas,

Whetson, Woodford, and Winslow.

Deacon
                  Stephen Hart is listed in the Court records as a resident of

New Towne (Cambridge)
                  MA for 7 January 1632/33. By 1636, he moves to

what is now Farmington,
                  Connecticut. Also, see The Winthrop Society

site at: http://www.winthropsociety.org/doc_newtowne.php

Here is the list (from the Winthrop Society Web site) of

people who lived as neighbors to Deacon Stephen Hart

The Residents of New Towne
An Alphabetized Index

According to the Winthrop Society Web site at: http://www.winthropsociety.org/doc_newtowne.php, “This list gives all persons mentioned in the town Court records for New Towne (later known as Cambridge) from the first town meeting for three years thereafter, as originally autographed or inscribed by William Spencer, the town clerk. By each name is the date of the town Court record where each name is mentioned. We have made no alterations of the original spellings here, so please note that names appear in many variants for the same persons, for instance Colby=Couldbye and Myat=Mygate, etc. This list is alphabetized by surname spelling, not date. An asterisk appears where the ancient record is illegible, but the name can be certainly assumed.”

Daniel Abbott — 5 Jan 1634/35
Daniel Abot — 20 Aug 1635
Jeremy Adams — 20 Aug 1635
Jeremy Addams — 7 Jan 1632/33
Jeremy Addams — 5 Aug 1633
Mathew Allen — 7 Jan 1632/33
Mathew Allen — 4 Nov 1633
Mathew Allen — 20 Aug 1635
Mathew Allen — 2 Feb 1633/34
William Andrews — 1 Dec 1634
William Andrews — 20 Aug 1635
William Andrews — 23 Nov 1635
William Andrews — 23 Nov 1635
John Arnold — 4 Aug 1634
John Arnold — 20 Aug 1635
Jonas Austin — 20 Aug 1635
Guy Bambridge — 4 Aug 1634
Guy Bambridge — 5 Jan 1634/35
Guy Bambrig — 20 Aug 1635
John Barnard — 4 Aug 1634
John Barnard — 20 Aug 1635
Thomas Beale — 4 Aug 1634
Thomas Beale — 20 Aug 1635
John Benjamin — 1 Sep 1634
John Benjamin — 7 Jan 1632/33
John Benjamin — 5 Aug 1633
John Benjamin — 2 Mar 1633/34
John Benjamin — 7 Jul 1634
John Benjamin — 5 Jan 1634/35
John Benjamin — 3 Feb 1634/35
John Benjamin — 20 Aug 1635
Jonathan Boseworth — 4 Aug 1634
Jonathan Bosw’th — 20 Aug 1635
Jonathan Bosworth — 5 Aug 1633
Jonathan Bosw'th — 7 Jan 1632/33
Mr. Symon Bradstreet — 7 Jan 1632/33
Mr. Symon Bradstreet — 3 Feb 1634/35
Symon Bradstreet — 2 Dec 1633
John Bridg — 7 Jan 1632/33
John Bridge — 4 Aug 1634
John Bridge — 23 Nov 1635
Richard Butler — 7 Jan 1632/33
Richard Butler — 7 Jul 1634
Richard Butler — 20 Aug 1635
Will Butler — 20 Aug 1635
William Butler — 2 Jun 1634
Clement Chapline — 23 Nov 1635
Mrs. Chester — 1 Dec 1634
John Clark — 7 Jan 1632/33
John Clark — 5 Aug 1633
John Clarke — 4 Aug 1634
Nicholas Clarke — 4 Aug 1634
Nicholas Clarke — 5 Jan 1634/35
Anthony Colby — 7 Jan 1632/33
Joseph Cooke — 23 Nov 1635
Anthony Couldbey — 5 Jan 1634/35
Anthony Couldby — 20 Aug 1635
Anthony Couldbye — 2 Mar 1633/34
Nicholas Danforth — 23 Nov 1635
Dollard Davis — 4 Aug 1634
Robert Day — 4 Aug 1634
Robert Day — 20 Aug 1635
Daniel Denison — 7 Jan 1632/33
Daniel Denison — 5 Aug 1633
Daniel Denison — 7 Jul 1634
Daniel Denison — 1 Dec 1634
Daniel Denison — 3 Feb 1634/35
Samuel Dudley — 7 Jan 1632/33
Samuel Dudley — 5 Aug 1633
Samuel Dudley — 20 Aug 1635
Thomas Dudley — 2 Dec 1633
Thomas Dudley — 24 Dec 1632
Thomas Dudley — 7 Jan 1632/33
Thomas Dudley, Esq. — 21 Apr 1635
Joseph Eason — 4 Aug 1634
Joseph Eason — 20 Aug 1635
Nathaniel Elly — 4 Aug 1634
Nathaniel Elly — 20 Aug 1635
Edward Elmer — 7 Jan 1632/33
Edward Elmer — 4 Aug 1634
Edward Elmer — 20 Aug 1635
James Ensigne — 4 Aug 1634
James Ensigne — 5 Jan 1634/35
James Ensigne — 20 Aug 1635
Thomas ffisher — 4 Aug 1634
Thomas ffisher — 20 Aug 1635
Edmond Gearner — 4 Aug 1634
Edmond Gerner — 20 Aug 1635
John Gibson — 4 Aug 1634
John Gibson — 20 Aug 1635
Richard Goodman — 7 Jan 1632/33
Richard Goodman — 20 Aug 1635
Richard Good'n — 5 Aug 1633
Mr. Goodwine — 21 Apr 1635
Will Goodwine — 20 Aug 1635
William Goodwine — 7 Jan 1632/33
William Goodwine — 5 Aug 1633
Seth Grant — 4 Aug 1634
Bartholomew Green — 1 Dec 1634
Samuel Green — 20 Aug 1635
Samuel Greene — 1 Dec 1634
Samuel Greenhill — 4 Aug 1634
Samuel Greenhill — 20 Aug 1635
Garr'd Haddon — 4 Aug 1634
Garr’d Hadon — 20 Aug 1635
Garrad Hadon — 7 Jan 1632/33
Nathaniel Hancock — 5 Jan 1634/35
Nathaniel Hancock — 20 Aug 1635
Mr. Roger Harlackenden — 23 Nov 1635
Stephen Hart — 7 Jan 1632/33
Stephen Hart — 5 Aug 1633
Stephen Hart — 2 Feb 1633/34
Stephen Hart — 20 Aug 1635
John Haynes — 24 Dec 1632
John Haynes — 7 Jan 1632/33
John Haynes — 5 Jan 1633/34
John Haynes, Esq — 4 Nov 1633
John Haynes, Esq — 2 Feb 1633/34
John Haynes, Esq. — 1 Dec 1634
John Haynes, Esq. — 3 Feb 1634/35
Thomas Heate — 7 Jan 1632/33
Thomas Heate — 20 Aug 1635
Mr. Hooker — 21 Apr 1635
Mr. Thomas Hooker — 5 Jan 1633/34
Mr. Thomas Hooker — 4 Nov 1633
Thomas Hooker — 20 Aug 1635
John Hopkins — 4 Aug 1634
John Hopkins — 5 Jan 1634/35
John Hopkins — 20 Aug 1635
Mr. John Hopkins — 4 Nov 1633
Thomas Hosmer — 7 Jan 1632/33
Thomas Hosmer — 5 Aug 1633
Thomas Hosmer — 2 Feb 1633/34
Thomas Hosmer — 20 Aug 1635
Thomas Hosmer — 23 Nov 1635
Mr. Atterton Houghe — 7 Jul 1634
Edmond Hunt — 4 Aug 1634
Edmond Hunt — 20 Aug 1635
Thomas Jud — 20 Aug 1635
Thomas Judd — 4 Aug 1634
William Kelse — 7 Jan 1632/33
William Kelse — 5 Aug 1633
Will Kelsy — 4 Aug 1634
William Kelsy — 20 Aug 1635
Christopher Kene — 4 Aug 1634
Christopher Kene — 20 Aug 1635
Barnabas Lambson — 23 Nov 1635
William Lewis — 7 Jan 1632/33
William Lewis — 5 Aug 1633
William Lewis — 2 Mar 1633/34
William Lewis — 20 Aug 1635
Richard Lord — 7 Jan 1632/33
Richard Lord — 4 Nov 1633
Richard Lord — 20 Aug 1635
Will Man — 4 Aug 1634
William Man — 20 Aug 1635
John Masters — 1 Sep 1634
John Masters — 7 Jan 1632/33
John Masters — 5 Aug 1633
John Masters — 2 Mar 1633/34
John Masters — 4 Aug 1634
John Masters — 20 Aug 1635
John Maynad — 20 Aug 1635
John Maynard — 4 Aug 1634
Abraham Morrill — 7 Jan 1632/33
Abraham Morrill — 20 Aug 1635
Hester Muse — 5 Aug 1633
Hester Muse — 2 Feb 1633/34
Hester Muse — 20 Aug 1635
Hester Musse — 7 Jan 1632/33
Joseph Myat — 1 Dec 1634
Joseph Mygate — 4 Aug 1634
James Olmsted — 3 Nov 1634
James Olmsted — 7 Jan 1632/33
James Olmsted — 5 Aug 1633
James Olmsted — 2 Jun 1634
James Olmsted — 3 Feb 1634/35
James Olmsted — 3 Feb 1634/35
James Olmsted — 20 Aug 1635
James Olmsted* — 2 Feb 1633/34
Captain Patrick — 1 Sep 1634
Capt. Daniel Patrik — 20 Aug 1635
Capt. Daniel Patrike — 7 Jan 1632/33
Capt. Daniel Patrike — 5 Aug 1633
William Peintre — 5 Aug 1633
William Peintree — 4 Aug 1634
William Pentry — 20 Aug 1635
Stephen Poast — 1 Sep 1634
John Prat — 5 Aug 1633
John Prat — 20 Aug 1635
John Pratt — 7 Apr 1634
John Pratt — 5 Jan 1634/35
Mr. Abraham Pratt — 5 Jan 1634/35
John Prince — 4 Aug 1634
John Prince — 5 Jan 1634/35
John Prince — 20 Aug 1635
Joseph Reading — 7 Jan 1632/33
Joseph Reding — 20 Aug 1635
Nathaniel Richards — 7 Jan 1632/33
Nathaniel Richards — 5 Aug 1633
Nathaniel Richards — 20 Aug 1635
Symon Saket — 7 Jan 1632/33
Symon Saket — 20 Aug 1635
Symon Sakt — 5 Aug 1633
Thomas Scott — 4 Aug 1634
Thomas Scott — 1 Dec 1634
Thomas Scott — 20 Aug 1635
Garrad Spencer — 1 Sep 1634
Michael Spencer — 1 Sep 1634
Thomas Spencer — 7 Jan 1632/33
Thomas Spencer — 5 Aug 1633
Thomas Spencer — 20 Aug 1635
William Spencer — 1 Sep 1634
William Spencer — 20 Aug 1635
William Spencer — 23 Nov 1635
William Spencer — 7 Jan 1632/33
William Spencer — 5 Aug 1633
William Spencer — 2 Mar 1633/34
William Spencer — 7 Jul 1634
William Spencer — 1 Dec 1634
William Spencer — 3 Feb 1634/35
William Spencer — 20 Aug 1635
Timothy Standly — 4 Aug 1634
Tymothy Standly — 20 Aug 1635
Tymothy Stanly — 5 Jan 1634/35
Edward Stebing — 20 Aug 1635
Edward Stebinge — 7 Jan 1632/33
Edward Stebinge — 5 Aug 1633
George Steele — 7 Jan 1632/33
George Steele — 5 Aug 1633
George Steele — 2 Feb 1633/34
George Steele — 20 Aug 1635
John Steele — 7 Jan 1632/33
John Steele — 5 Aug 1633
John Steele — 1 Dec 1634
John Steele — 20 Aug 1635
George Stockin — 20 Aug 1635
George Stockine — 1 Sep 1634
George Stockine — 4 Aug 1634
George Stockine — 5 Jan 1634/35
Mr. Samuel Ston — 4 Nov 1633
Mr. Samuel Stone — 5 Jan 1633/34
Mr. Stonn — 5 May 1634
Mr. Samuel Stonn — 21 Apr 1635
Samuel Stonn — 20 Aug 1635
John Tailcott — 20 Aug 1635
John Talcott — 7 Jan 1632/33
John Taylcott — 5 Jan 1633/34
John Taylcott — 2 Feb 1633/34
John Taylcott — 4 Aug 1634
John Taylcott — 5 Jan 1634/35
John Taylcott — 3 Feb 1634/35
Timothy Tomlins — 4 Aug 1634
Humphry Vincent — 5 Jan 1634/35
Humphry Vincent — 20 Aug 1635
Samuel Wackman — 1 Sep 1634
William Wadsworth — 3 Feb 1634/35
William Wadsworth — 20 Aug 1635
William Wadsw'th — 7 Jan 1632/33
William Wadsw'th — 5 Aug 1633
Andrew Warner — 5 Jan 1633/34
Andrew Warner — 2 Feb 1633/34
Andrew Warner — 7 Jan 1632/33
Andrew Warner — 4 Nov 1633
Andrew Warner — 3 Feb 1634/35
Andrew Warner — 20 Aug 1635
Andrew Warner — 23 Nov 1635
Richard Web — 7 Jan 1632/33
Richard Webb — 4 Aug 1634
Richard Webb — 20 Aug 1635
William Westwood — 7 Jan 1632/33
William Westwood — 5 Aug 1633
William Westwood — 3 Feb 1634/35
John White — 3 Nov 1634
John White — 7 Jan 1632/33
John White — 5 Aug 1633
John White — 3 Feb 1634/35
John White — 20 Aug 1635
John White* — 2 Feb 1633/34
Samuel Whithead — 5 Jan 1634/35
Symon Williard — 4 Aug 1634
Humphry Wincett — 4 Aug 1634
Edward Winshep — 20 Aug 1635

Teaching Family History Online

        How do you open a business as an independent contractor teaching family history online? Adult education programs, college extended studies, and personal enrichment courses, including private store-front learning centers such as the Learning Annex, offer courses in genealogy-related topics. You can focus on virtual education and organize family history research events, including planning location, publicity, and logistics.

Teaching online as a business is called distributive education. To start, pick a niche area of genealogy. Almost every city has adult education and extended studies courses offered at community colleges, unified school districts, universities, community centers, park recreation districts, private schools, and lifelong learning programs. Find your niche. I was contacted by the gerontology departments of community colleges and by the communications departments of several universities to offer writing courses.

The writing courses led to teaching video biography production—recording highlights of life stories or narrated experiences on DVDs for older adults,  and courses on how to write the slice-of-life 7-minute 1,500 word vignette. That led to courses on how to write skits, monologues, and plays from the significant life events of older adults, and related courses. Finally, several books emerged from these family history niches.  

What’s Your Genealogy Niche?

To write a course outline in family history, you start with a niche or special area. Online you can offer a class in Census research, an adoption investigative course, or offer Native American or African-American genealogy research, Middle East genealogy, hidden resources for finding women’s maiden names, historical medical, hospital, dental, elementary school, or prison records genealogy, or searching notary and court records using online resources.

You can offer services to genealogists such as transcribing oral history tapes, typing manuscripts, indexing or editing genealogy books, scanning photos, duplicating, restoring old diaries and books, making family prayer boxes, teaching digital scrap booking online, or taking a tour abroad with a group of genealogists.

Such tours go in search of court, school, and property records in various countries. The online part of a tour business can be the reservations, publicity, marketing, event planning, speaking, and organizing.

The Virtual University Gazette, at: http://www.geteducated.com/vug/oct01/newcont1001.htm is a free distance educational newsletter that offers free advertising in its jobs-wanted section for those who want to be hired to teach any type of courses.

Most genealogy courses are filled by the time the course starts. Those offered online at present are usually sponsored by professional associations and directed at people interested in genealogy or oral history as an occupation. Those offered in person at present are usually sponsored by adult education programs within community college districts or by churches and private groups.

To make money teaching family history online, you need a popular niche. Who is your intended audience? If you have a specific group such as the descendants of early New England settlers, Native Americans, African Americans, adoptees, or any other ethnic or religious group, go to their club meetings and ask them what type of online course they need most.

You’ll get a list of topics. Choose what’s most in demand. Then write a course outline so that the course can be worked into a required course or elective already offered by the school such as a history, writing, speaking, or communications course within an existing department. For those without a master’s degree and teaching experience, in any subject, instead of teaching in a university, you’d target the extended studies departments of colleges and adult education programs or private personal enrichment schools. You don’t need a degree or credential to teach family history courses online.

Customize, tailor, and cater to an individual’s niche. There’s room for a wide variety of popular topics in any online course. Your course outline actually is a home-based business  plan emphasizing teaching research techniques, writing, speaking, or multimedia strategies online.

You’ll need a Web site on which to teach such as Blackboard.com located online at: http://www.blackboard.com. You can buy space at Blackboard.com for a small fee each year and teach all your courses from Blackboard’s sites. Or teach at your own Web site. You don’t need any type of special education or credentials to buy space at Blackboard.com and put up your family history course online. It’s thoroughly professional.

You’ll have to find your own students by your own publicity, flyers, or online promotional efforts. According to Blackboard’s Web site, “Blackboard.com^SM is a course Web site creation service that enables instructors to add an online component to traditional classes or teach an entire course on the Web.

“You can quickly and easily create your own course Web site to bring your learning materials, class discussions, and tests online. It's easy to get started. The service is free for the first 60 days, or may be activated for one year for a modest fee. Blackboard.com also features an extensive course catalog, from which learners can access a course their instructor has set up or search for distance learning courses.” 

Blackboard offers a limited number of reduced cost registrations. If you teach in adult education or for one of the extended studies programs for a university community college district, or unified school system’s adult education program, usually the school already has a Web site where you’ll teach.

If you don’t want to work for an existing school that already uses Blackboard.com, then you can buy space at Blackboard and upload your own course, working entirely as an independent online teacher.    Use your own Web site if you have one. Or use Microsoft’s Outlook Express to create newsgroups and teach through email and newsgroups.

The choice is yours depending on your education and experience with uploading course material to Web sites. If you’re hired by a university to teach elective courses, the school usually trains you free on how to post your course and syllabus to their Website at Blackboard.com.

If you’re independent and want to buy space at Blackboard.com, the site shows you how to post your course material or syllabus. Each time a university hired me to teach a specific course online, I had to go through a month or two of online training in how to post my course material, write a syllabus, and use Blackboard.com.

Selling Your Online Course

Any student who takes your online genealogy course will need a syllabus and course outline. You need to write course materials. My personal history course is at: http://www.newswriting.net/personalhistorycourse.htm. It's a text-based course and also on video and/or audio at http://www.newswriting.net/writingvideos.htm. You can charge a fair price for your courses. Some extended studies courses at community colleges charge students about $50-$80 for a short online course in genealogy. Facilitators teaching an online course are paid a percentage, commission, flat fee, or as an independent contractor. Keep your course about five weeks or less and affordable.

Most people who take genealogy courses online will not spend the same amount as they would for a 3-credit/unit university online course that runs five weeks. You can repeat the course as long as there’s demand. Some courses do better if they are one-day seminars. For a seminar, you could make the price affordable, about $20-$40.

Check out the prices of adult education courses in your unified or community college school district for non-credit courses and personal enrichment offerings. Some are free to older adults. Other courses have materials fee. The teacher is paid by the unified school district offering adult education courses to older adults or to anyone for a fee. Other adult education fees run about $60-$80, particularly for longer courses that can run up to eight weeks. Cost varies with locality.

What you need before talking to anyone is a course outline and syllabus with course materials to market your course to schools or programs. You need to pitch, show, and sell existing educational programs the value of your course.

Most adult education program designers or administrators ask you to mail them your course outline and syllabus, along with a resume and list of experience in your field.

 Having speaking experience in genealogy actually is teaching experience. Joining a genealogy speaker’s group helps to add to your experience. Target extended study courses open to all ages that charge a fee per course. The facilitator or instructors in these types of courses are paid a percentage of the fees charged to the students.  

Join Historical and Genealogy Associations 

Take online courses offered by the historical and genealogical associations. Join one or more of the genealogy specialties associations. In addition to the Association of Professional Genealogists at: http://www.apgen.org/, there are associations for genealogy writers such as the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors at: http://www.myfamily.com. You can join the Historical Novel Society, at: http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/USA/schedule.htm  and the Genealogy Speakers Guild at http://www.genspeakguild.org/. 

To make contacts with oral historians, start with the personal history libraries situated on university campuses. One great oral history library, the Bancroft Library, http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/,  is located at the University of California, Berkeley. The oral history libraries are where you make contacts, network, and find clients. The Association of Personal Historians has a Web site at: http://www.your-life-your-story.com/aph-upclose.html. The American Historical Association’s Web site is at: http://www.historians.org/pubs/Free/ProfessionalStandards.htm.

For recording oral history, try the Oral History Association. Its Web site is at: http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha/pub_eg.html. They have an excellent pamphlet titled, Oral History Evaluation Guidelines. They publish the Oral History Review. See: http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha/pub_ohr.html.

                Some of these professional associations offer classes, such as the Association of Personal Historians  http://www.your-life-your-story.com/aph-upclose.html.  

What Subjects Are Most Popular to Teach Online in the Personal History and Genealogy Fields?

1. Practical time management for genealogists.
2. Managing work projects.
3. How to produce quality genealogy client reports. Different types of
family history reports and how to prepare them. Tips for creative, practical
reports. Techniques of writing a genealogy report.
4. Standards in genealogy publications.
5. How to make time capsules for future generations.
6. DNA-driven genealogy--where history records end. How to open a DNA-driven
genealogy reporting service.
7. How to do record searches, lineage construction, and problem solving in
family history projects.
8. Billing issues for family historians.
9. How to educate clients online in genealogy/family history. Listing
objectives. Communication is sharing meaning.

10. Enhancing the working relationship between client and genealogist.

11. How to read Census reports and information.

12. Investigating adoptions and the genealogy of orphanages and orphan
trains.

13. How to set up speakers panels on family history for conventions,
meetings, and conferences. Planning events for family historians.

14. How to plan reunions online, in person, and by satellite networks.

15. Teen or senior citizen genealogy camp. Creating a family history
computer summer camp for researchers.

16. Schooling, certification, and professional standards for genealogists
and family historians.

17. How to handle clients, peers, vendors, and suppliers in the genealogy, family history, and DNA-driven genealogy fields. How to motivate suppliers.
Getting credibility, responsibility, and respect in your field from peers and clients. How to negotiate and how to bargain, the difference. Handling client's demands for specific research answers. Dealing with rush orders when you need time to research.

20. Taking clients on genealogy tours where records are available. How to plan a tour and include yourself free.

21. Unclaimed property searching. Missing heirs and adoption research. Finding heirs for unclaimed property. Fee structures, what to charge, and
what the competition is like. How to network and work a room.

22. How to write for scholarly journals and popular magazines on different aspects of genealogy or family history. Slanting to the publication. The different ways to write for scholarly journals vs. popular publications.

23. How to be a Personal Historian or Oral Historian.

24. Transcribing oral history tapes or audio files.

25. Releases and legal forms you need to obtain before interviewing people
and recording them.

26. Marketing genealogy and family history research, writing, and speaking.

27. How to become a professional public speaker on genealogy or family
history, oral history, and personal history topics.

28. Marketing plans, priorities, prices and billing, niche and atypical markets, hidden markets for genealogists, packaging services, and labeling services. How to set up a family  history business online. Inventor taking
of your skills and defining goals.

29. How to teach genealogy online and where to find jobs or set up businesses and find clients. Handling contracts and fees. Your expenses. Using financial software, and running your genealogy business. Your
genealogy business plan.

30. Publicity for genealogists/family historians. How to use TV and radio publicity to charge higher fees. How to design flyers an brochures, get speaking engagements, and position yourself as number one in demand. Where to get your own expertise, portfolio, and reputation or credibility enhanced in the media. How to mentor others and what professional growth is available for you.

31. Self publishing through print-on demand publishers.

32. What genealogists need to know about written agreements, fees, terms, confidentiality, and publication. How to estimate the magnitude of what
you're researching. What to look for in agreements with sub-contracts. For genealogy writers, what you need to know about copyright and writing for
publication.

*Source: Association of Professional Genealogists at:
http://www.apgen.org/conferences/pastpmcs.html