Mary “Midnight Mary” Hart

THE PEOPLE SHALL BE TROUBLED AT MIDNIGHT AND PASS AWAY
AT HIGH NOON
JUST FROM, AND ABOUT TO RENEW
HER DAILY WORK, IN HER FULL STRENGTH OF
BODY AND MIND
MARY E. HART
HAVING FALLEN PROSTRATE:
REMAINED UNCONSCIOUS, UNTIL SHE DIED AT MIDNIGHT,
OCTOBER 15, 1872
BORN DECEMBER 16, 1824

GENEALOGICAL  HISTORY 
OF 
Deacon  Stephen  Hart 
AND    HIS    DESCENDANTS. 
1632.  1875. 
WITH    AN    INTRODUCTION    OF    MISCELLANEOUS    HARTS    AND    THEIR    PRO- 
GENITORS,   AS   FAR  AS    KNOWN;    TO   WHICH    IS    ADDED   A   LIST 
OF  ALL  THE  CLERGY  OF  THE  NAME  FOUND,  ALL5THE 
PHYSICIANS,    ALL    THE    LAWYERS,   THE 
AUTHORS,  AND   SOLDIERS. 
ALFRED  ANDREWS,  NEW  BRITAIN,  CONN., 
MEMBER    OF    CONNECTICUT    AND    WISCONSIN     HISTORICAL    SOCIETIES,    AUTHOR    OF     "HISTORY    OF    NEW 
BRITAIN,    CONN.,"     "  ANDREWS'    MEMORIAL,"    AND     "' PEDIGREE   OF   THE    HARTS." 
PUBLISHED    EY 
AUSTIN    HART,  Esq.,  NEW  BRITAIN.  CONN. 
HARTFORD: 
The  Case,  Lockwood  cS:  Braixard  Co.,  Printers. 
■S75. 

438  HAET     FAMILY. 
Charlotte  Overton,  daughter  of  Seth,  of  Chatham,  Conn.     They  had 
no  children. 
1  SOS>^.  Natchez,  Miss. 
Doctor  James  Everlin  Hart,  Natchez,  Miss.,  second  son  of  Dr. 
John  Hart,  and  his  wife,  Hannah  (Wilhams),  born  November  8th, 
1788,  at  Farming-ton.  •  He  first  located  in  Wintonbury,  (now  Bloom- 
field,)  Conn.,  and  from  thence  he  removed  to  Natchez,  Miss.,  where  he 
became  a  distinguished  and  successful  physician.  He  died  there  of 
yellow  fever,  July  6th,  1823,  aged  33  years.     He  left  no  family. 
1  SOS.  Natchez,  Miss. 
Doctor  John  Ariadna  Hart,  Natchez,  Miss.,  third  son  of  Dr.  John 
Hart,  of  Farmington,  and  his  wife,  Hannah  (Williams),  born  Novem- 
ber 17th,  1790,  at  Farmington;  married  February  27th,  1815,  Joanna 
Porter,  daughter  of  Samuel,  of  Berlin,  born  March  20th,  1792,  at 
Berlin,  where  he  was  a  practicing  physician  until  he  removed  to  Natchez, 
where  he  became  associated  with  his  brother,  James,  and  was  highly 
successful  until  his  premature  death.  He  taught  penmanship  from 
Gettysburg  to  Tennessee.  He  was  a  botanist,  and  was  familiar  with 
plants — from  the  hchen  on  the  bleak  rock  of  the  north,  to  the  magnolia 
of  the  south.  He  died  of  yellow  fever,  October  23d,  1822,  aged  32 
years. 
THEIR    CHILDREN,    BEING    THE    SEVENTH    GENERATION. 
Son,  born  March  2d,  1816,  at  Farmington;  died  March  3d,  1816,  aged  28 
hours. 
2189.     James  Porter,  born  July  27th,  1817,  at  Farmington.     He  graduated  at  Yale 
College  in  1840. 
John  Linne,  born  at  Natchez,  March  6th,  1822;  died  July  30th,  1823,  aged  1 
year. 
X  S033^.  Farmington,  Conn. 
Elizabeth  Lawrence  Hart,  only  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Hart,  of 
Farmington,  and  his  wife,  Hannah  (Williams),  born  April  9th,  ]  793, 
in  Farmington,  and  died  there  November  13th,  1807,  in  her  15th  year. 
A  sermon  was  preached  at  her  funeral  by  Eev.  Noah  Porter,  D.  D., 
from  1  Peter  i.  24,  25 — "For  all  flesh  is  as  grass,  and  all  the  glory  of 
man  as  the  flower  of  grass.  The  grass  withereth,  and  the  flower 
thereof  falleth  away;  but  the  word  of  the  Lord  endureth  for  ever." 
1  S04.  Blendon,  Ohio. 
Gideon  Williams  Hart,  Worthington,  Ohio,  fourth  son  of  Doctor 
John  Hart,  of  Farmington,  and  his  wife,  Hannah  (Williams),  born  July 

BRANCH     OF     THOMAS.  495 
branch  of  the  Mattabesett,  and  the  former  site  of  Percival's  Mills.  His 
face  is  very  fairly  represented  in  the  engraving  on  the  opposite  page, 
and  furnished  by  him  at  my  urgent  solicitation,  for  which  he  has  my 
thanks. 
THEIR    CHILDREN,    BEING    THE    EIGHTH    GENERATION. 
2717.  Louisa  M.,  born  August  28th,  184.5;  married  October  20th,  1866,  Frederic  A. 
Cowles. 
Sarah  WoodrufF,  born  August  18th,  1847;'died  May  30th,  1864,  aged  16  years 
and  9  months. 
EllaM.,  born  November  11th,  1849;  died  of  consumption,  November  20th, 
1860,  aged  11  years. 
2718.  Era  Thomas,  born  July  25th,  1852. 
2719.  Francis  Gillette,  bom  March  15th,  1855. 
2720.  Leuman  Pease,  born  June  11th,  1858. 
S  1  SO.  New  Haven,  Com. 
James  Porter  Hart,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  second  son  of  Dr.  John 
Ariadna  Hart,  of  Natchez,  Miss.,  and  his  wife,  Joanna  (Porter),  born 
July  27th,  1817,  at  Farmington,  Conn.  He  graduated  at  Yale  College 
in  1840,  and  studied  theology  at  New  Haven,  where  he  was  residing 
in  1872,  and  proposes  to  represent  languages  by  letters. 
2 1  04.  New  Britain,  Conn. 
Selah  Hart,  New  Britain,  Conn.,  second  son  of  Deacon  Ehjah 
Hart,  of  the  same  place,  and  his  wife,  Anna,  daughter  of  Hezekiah 
Andrews,  born  November  6th,  1784,  at  New  Britain.  He  was  a  cooper 
by  trade,  but  followed  farming.  He  married  October  5th,  1805,  Je- 
mima, daughter  of  David  Webster,  Esq.,  of  Berlin,  Conn.,  and  his 
wife,  Anna  (Kelsey),  born  April  5th,  1783.  They  settled  in  Hart 
Quarter,  a  locality  of  New  Britain,  only  a  few  rods  from  the  site  of 
his  great-grandfather,  the  first  Deacon  Elijah.  They  became  members 
of  the  First  Church,  August  5th,  1821.  He  had  the  military  rank  of 
major.  He  kept  a  hotel  some  years,  and  had  one  in  Saratoga,  N.  Y. 
He  was  an  effective  farmer.  He  died  of  dropsy,  September  7th,  1851, 
aged  G8.  His  widow  died  July  6th,  1872,  aged  89  years,  3  months, 
and  1  day.  She  was  distinguished  for  her  tall,  qiieenly  form,  and  lady- 
like appearance  and  manners. 
THEIR   CHILDREN,   BEING    THE   EIGHTH   GENERATION. 
2721.  Edward,  born  September  4th,  1806;  married  March  26th,  1834,  Viana  Perry, 
of  Egremont. 
2722.  Selah,  born  November  25th,  1808;  married  November  1 1  th,  1829,  Sarah  North. 
2723.  Nelson,  born  November  25th,  1812;  married  October  8th,  1834,  Lucy  Jane 
Dewy. 

Obituary record for graduates deceased during the academical year ending June 1877, in the bound volume 1870–1880. Yale University. Internet Archive contributor: Robarts — University of Toronto. The item copyright-evidence statement dates the bound volume 1880.

1840.
James Porter Hart, second son of Dr. John A. Hart, and grandson of Dr. John Hart (Y. C. 1776), both of Farmington, Conn., was born in Farmington, July 27, 1817. His mother was Joanna, daughter of Samuel Porter, of Berlin, Conn.
He spent the three years after graduation in the Yale Divinity School, and afterwards resided in New Haven, where he died Jan. 10, 1877, aged 59 years.
He was interested in the science of phonography, and published several tracts on that subject. At an earlier period he took a warm interest in the settlement of fugitive slaves in Canada.
He was married, Feb. 11, 1846, to Mary E. Pierpont, of New Haven, who survives him, with one son.

Benham’s New Haven Directory and Annual Advertiser, 1872–’73. New Haven: J. H. Benham, 1872. Printed page 261. Selected visually checked entries:
Hart, James P., 269 Orange c Bradley
Hart, Mrs. Mary E., 269 Orange

Benham's New Haven Directory and Annual Advertiser, 1872–'73. Number Thirty-Three. New Haven: Printed and published by J. H. Benham. 1872.