See also:

Tracing Back the Ancestors of Homer Vincent Hart: The Techniques of Researching.

The Hart Genealogy 1605-1938

Research Techniques and Sources

After the genealogy records were researched, then we added a Hart surname group project, and also a Y-chromosome DNA test of 37 DYS markers from Family Tree DNA. See some DNA sequences. Do they match yours? We already had the genealogy records in a direct line to Deacon Stephen Hart, b. 1605.

Link to articles on my personal Web page

Here is the 37-marker Y chromosome DNA Test from Family Tree DNA. See: http://www.familytreedna.com. The haplogroup is probably R1b.

Locus DYS# Alleles 1 393 13 2 390 25 3 19* 14 4 391 10 5 385a 11 6 385b 11 7 426 12 8 388 12 9 439 13 10 389-1 13 11 392 13 12 389-2 29 13 458 17 14 459a 9 15 459b 10 16 455 11 17 454 11 18 447 25 19 437 14 20 448 19 21 449 30 22 464a** 15 23 464b** 15 24 464c** 17 25 464d** 17 26 460 11 27 GATA H4 12 28 YCA II a 19 29 YCA II b 23 30 456 15 31 607 15 32 576 17 33 570 16 34 CDY a 35 35 CDY b 37 36 442 12 37 438 12

*Also known as DYS 394

**On 5/19/2003, these values were adjusted down by 1 point because of a change in Lab nomenclature.

http://www.worldfamilies.net/  is collecting & studying DNA data on participants of the HART surname project. The purpose of these tests is to distinguish the relationships between the various lines.

HART, Stephen
b. 1605 Braintree, Essex, England
d. MAR 1682/83 Farmington, CT.
Family:

Children:

HART, Sarah
HART, John
HART, Stephen
HART, Mary
HART, Mehitable
HART, Rachel
HART, Thomas

The father of Deacon Stephen Hart also was named Stephen Hart. Resources note: 1. STEPHEN¹ HART was born sometime between 1550 and 1591, and died between 1604 and 1701. ^[1] Child. His son became Deacon Stephen Hart, born 1605, Essex, England.

Consider that the first Stephen Hart would have been old enough to have a son born in 1605 when researching his birth date. How many other Stephen Harts were there before him related in a direct line? What was Stephen Hart's great grandfather's name?

So far research shows that Deacon Stephen Hart's son, John Hart was born in 1630 in England and died in Farmington, CT on Dec. 15th 1666. He was the son of Deacon Stephen Hart and his wife Sarah, born in England. When Deacon Stephen Hart came to New England, John was about two years old.

Deacon Stephen Hart was born around 1605. Stephen and Sarah Hart had at first, three children, John, Sarah, and Stephen³. So we have 'grandpa' Stephen Hart, his son, Deacon Stephen Hart, and his surviving son, Stephen3 or Stephen, the third.

There also are listed in genealogical records the other surviving children. Stephen the third's son, John Hart, was born 2 APR 1655 in Farmington, CT.  Stephen was (the third) son of Deacon Stephen Hart. And that Stephen also had a son named John.

 (This family line is descended from  "John, born in Farmington, about 1655, baptized April 2d, 1655, saved from the fire, he being that night at Nod," according to the 1875 book on the Hart family published online at:  http://users.rcn.com/harts.ma.ultranet/family/andrews/p043.html.

The fire occurred on December 15, 1666.  The surviving child, John Hart, was only eleven years old in 1666. He was away from the house at the time.  See the Web site at: http://newenglandgenealogy.pcplayground.com/f_142.htm#81 for some of these resources and information. Also see other Stephen Hart Web sites mentioned on this site for more research on those events. Here is what is noted about some family members as to the year 1666. Other children also survived.

The children of the oldest son, John Hart, who didn't survive, include Deacon Stephen Hart's oldest son, born in 1630, named John, and John's wife, Sarah, as well as some of the children of John Hart, also named Sarah and Stephen. The other John Hart, the eleven-year old grandson of Deacon Stephen Hart, did survive as he was out of the area that night--at a place called 'Nod.' Deacon Stephen Hart also had other surviving children. Here is what the genealogy records state:

Sarah,
d. 15 DEC 1666 Burned to death
Family:

Spouse: HART, John
b. ABT. 1630 England
d. 15 DEC 1666 Burned to death
Parents:

Father: HART, Stephen

Children:

HART, Sarah
b. ABT. 1653 Farmington, CT.
d. 1666 Burned to death
HART, John  (John Hart, grandson, survived)
HART, Stephen
b. JUL 1657 Farmington, CT.
d. 1666 Burned to death

In 17^th century New England, for a male settler to serve in public office and be declared a citizen, he first had to join the Congregational church before he could be declared “a free man.” In court records 1633 of New Towne (Cambridge) and after 1636, in Farmington, CT, Deacon Stephen Hart serves in public office and also serves as a soldier in the Pequot War (1634-1638) where he is awarded “a soldier’s lot” of land. He owns a large estate in Farmington and another home and surrounding area nearby, called ‘Nod.’