Rash's Surname Index
Notes for John Jr. HART
John Hart, Jr., born on his father's plantation in Byberry, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, July 16, 1684, died on his own plantation in Warminster township, Bucks county, March 22, 1763. He was a Justice of Bucks County Courts, as early as 1726, and still in commission as late as 1757. In the meantime. however, he was High Sheriff of Bucks county, 1738-39-43-44-45-48-49; and Coroner, 1741-42. He inherited 200 acres of his father's Warminster plantation, and lived there all his life, being a man of wealth for the times. He was among the founders of the Southampton Baptist Church, an offspring from Pennypack, April 8, 1746, and was elected the first deacon on May 8, of the same year. He was a pillar of this church to the day of his death and its clerk from the organization until 1762; also trustee of the church's real estate. He built the family mansion on the Warminster plantation (though his father no doubt had a house there previously) the date stone of which has his own and his wife's initials, "Hart, John and Eleanor," and the date 1750. He was buried in the graveyard of Southampton Baptist Church, beside his wife, Eleanor Crispin, who died October 29, 1754.
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