I Hart

I Hart

Two candidates

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• John Hart Jr.

 Leacock, Lancaster Co., PA, joiner. 

 

On the 1796 Leacock freeman tax list, John Jr. is id'd as a carpenter., while a second John is on the assessment list with a tavern. (This same (elder) John was first included on the Leacock tax assessment list in 1793 ... also with a tavern.) In the years 1800 to 1816 there remain two John Harts on the Leacock tax lists, one a joiner and one a farmer. In 1818 and 1819 a single John, no trade, is in the Leacock lists, while 1820 and after, there are none. In the 1810 Leacock census, one is 26/44 years old and the other is 45+ years old. In Leacock, it is assumed that John the Jr., is the joiner and that by 1819, John Sr. is no longer on the scene. John Hart's appear on the Cocalico tax lists in 1823. On the Cocalico assessment list, John, is a house carpenter and on the inmate list, another John is a carpenter. It is assumed that these two John's are the former John Jr. from Leacock and his son, the "new" John Jr.  In 1829 and after, this younger John is a laborer. It's not until 1842 that the younger John is id'd as John Jr. On the West Cocalico assessment list for 1846, John Sr. is a joiner and John Jr. is a laborer.

 

The 1840 census lists two John Hart's in West Cocalico, the elder 60-69 and the younger 30-39. This would place the birth of the elder, John the joiner, as 1780-1771.

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In 1853, a John Hart Sr.  registers a will in West Cocalico, mentioning his wife Susannah and their seven children, including John the executor. John Sr. is deceased by 1857.

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1809 Leacock deed, carpenter, with the deed signed by Susannah Hart as well as by John. The relationship is not         known/stated.

1800 to 1815, John Hart is listed as a joiner in the Craftperson system.

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• ​John Hart

Philadelphia, PA and Bedford Co., PA, house carpenter

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​b 1763 - 1822

m Elizabeth 4-7-1791 in Philadelphia

ch Jacob, William, Mary Ellen, Elizabeth

parents William and Margaret

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1791 deed, Philadelphia, house carpenter

1800 Philadelphia, So. Mulberry tax list, carpenter

1793, 1801, 1802 Philadelphia Directories, house carpenter on 10th and Front Streets

In Bedford Co. 1820

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GAWP5 mentions that one I Hart plane appears as an owner's stamp on a D Heis plane. Dietrich worked first in Lancaster ca 1769, then to Philadelphia 1782-1785, and back to Lancaster, working until 1814. Based on these two possible Heis connections, both the Leacock/West Cocalico and the Philadelphia John Harts are strong candidates.

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Only PA individuals were investigated. Tax lists without trades were checked via the deeds in Adams, Bedford, Bucks, York, Fayette and Luzerne CO's.