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Peter HART

Peter HART

Male 1743 - 1814  (71 years)


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  • Name Peter HART 
    Birth 1743  Virginia, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    MilitaryService 25 Feb 1783  United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
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    Census 1794  Grayson, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Residence 1800  Morgan, Ashe, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Residence 1810  Ashe, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Death 1814  Ash, Alleghany, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Alt. Death 1820  Ashe, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Alt. Death 
    _FSFTID LXY4-F64 
    _FSLINK https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LXY4-F64 
    _UID 1B91398BEC3D49EA8B4EE7BFF3FAF52D5A8F 
    Burial 1820  Alleghany, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID I29950  Carney Wehofer July 2025
    Last Modified 22 Nov 2024 

    Father Col. Thomas HART,   b. 24 Sep 1679, Henderson, Kentucky, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 May 1755, Hanover, Goochland, Virginia, British Colony Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Mother Susannah RICE,   b. 1692, New Kent, Hanover, Virginia, British Colony Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1785, Granville, Orange, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 93 years) 
    Marriage 1715  Hanover, Goochland, Virginia, British Colony Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F14083  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sally Dority "Dollie" CANTOR,   b. 1745, Prathers Creek, Ashe, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1820, Prathers Creek, Ashe, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Marriage 1765  Grayson, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. James HART,   b. Abt 1768, Grayson, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Mar 1839, Granville, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 71 years)
     2. Mark HART,   b. 1770, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1810, Russell, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years)
     3. Margaret HART,   b. 1772, Montgomery, Grayson, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1840, Meadow Creek, Whitley, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
     4. Margaret Mahala HART,   b. 1773, Virginia, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1848, Meadow Creek, Whitley, Kentucky, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     5. William Corwin HART,   b. 1775, Grayson, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1840, Hawkins, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
     6. Peter HART, Jr.,   b. 1778, Ashe, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Oct 1842, Goshen, Mercer, Missouri, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years)
     7. John HART,   b. 20 Feb 1780, Montgomery, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Aug 1855, Meadow Creek, Whitley, Kentucky, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     8. Nancy HART,   b. 1784, Grayson County, Virginia, United States of America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1855, Greene Township, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
     9. Stephen HART,   b. 1785, Grayson, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1870, Corbin, Knox, Kentucky, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
     10. William HART,   b. 1788, Hawkins County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Nov 1862 (Age 74 years)
    Family ID F14082  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Nov 2024 

  • Notes 
    • Added by Jane Jennie
      Peter Hart, Sr Birth 1743, Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA Death 1820 (aged 76-77), Alleghany County, North Carolina, USA Burial Peter Hart Family Cemetery - Alleghany County, North Carolina, USA Memorial ID 42738289 Born abt 1740 perhaps in Bucks or Chester County, PA or more likely in current Berkeley County, West Virginia on the Thomas Hart farm or estate named Elkwood. Peter is likely a son or grandson of Thomas the Elder Hart and Ester Miles that were English Quakers and converted to Baptist. Peter's brother was James Hart, father of James JR and Annie "Elizabeth" Hart Sizemore of Wilkes/Ashe County, North Carolina. Several groups lay claim to being descendants of Thomas the Elder. Direct male Y-DNA results for these groups do not match, meaning they do not share the same common male ancestor and are therefore, are not related to each other. The main question becomes, who were Thomas The Elder Hart's children? Does his children include Josiah, Joseph and Aaron Hart, the last two being Patriots from South Carolina? The James Hart family reportedly from Orange County, North Carolina with Quakers in 1768 Wrightsborough, Georgia are not related. While I can not document it at this time, it is my opinion James, Peter, Josiah and Samuel Hart found in Orange County, NC are likely descendants of or related to Thomas Hart and Susan Rice from London, England and Hanover County, Virginia. That group includes the Harts from Hanover County that founded the Transylvania Company that hired Daniel Boone, Captain Nathaniel Hart, Benjamin husband of Nancy Morgan, Henry Clay and Thomas Hart Benton. The following story as I have it may or may not be correct. The Thomas Hart family went from PA to Virginia about 1735 then to current Fairforest, Union County, South Carolina about 1754. In 1735 Thomas Hart of Warminster, Bucks County, PA. was given a bond signed by Jost Hite, for 1500 acres of land on the Elk Branch, in current Jefferson/Berkeley County, (West) Virginia. The king confirmed Lord Fairfax's title to local lands, calling into question surveys and land sales Hite had made. There were long going court cases involving Lord Thomas Fairfax and Jost Hite over Virginia lands. Records of Jost Hite in Augusta County, VA, From Chalkley's, Volume 2, " Vol. 2 - Paul vs. Hite--O. S. 310; N. S. 110--Bill, 81st January, 1794, by Margaret Paul of Pennsylvania. Many years ago Joist Hite sold to Thos. Hart land in now Berkeley County. Hart sold a part to John Miles of Pennsylvania. On 2d April, 1747, Miles made his will and devised the land "intail" to oratrix, his only child, an infant. She married _____ Paul, now deceased. Oratrix and father always lived in Pennsylvania. Fairfax claimed the land, was sued by Hite and lands decreed to Hite, but the Hite heirs refuse to give it up. Jacob Miller, Abraham Neil, Robt. Lowry, Philip Ingle, Godwin Swift, William Dark petition that they, with Giles Cook, are in possession of a tract of land on Elk Branch in Berkeley County, 1,300 acres, part was sold by Jost Hite to Thos. Hart and by him conveyed to petitioners. 17th June, 1803, Peter Martin, Sr., aged 73, 4 or 5 years ago, he was shown a tree that formerly stood in Cavalier Martin's yard by Thos. Hart. 17th June, 1803, Thos. Hart, Sr., aged nearly 80 years, deposes, he was with the surveyor and his father when they surveyed Jost Hite's 1,100 acres. 27th April, 1795, Ann Thomas, aged 78, deposes at Spread Eagle Tavern, kept by John Dunwoody in Philadelphia (285 High St.), she was married to John Miles in 1739 or 1740, that by him she had a son, Griffith Miles, who died when an infant, and Margaret, the plaintiff. 27th April, 1795, John Cart, aged 69 years, deposes, same place. 5th September, 1795, Edward Lucas, son of Edward Lucas, deposes. 19th March, 1787, Thos. Rutherford deposes, in 1752 as surveyor for Fairfax he made survey for Thos. Hart and an adjoining one for Miles Hart, son of Thomas. Joseph Darke owned adjoining land. In 1740 deponent saw a log house covered with clap board or shingle and nailed roof on north side of Elk Branch on land now in dispute. The house was said to be the property of John Miles, who had purchased from Thos. Harte, Sr. 5th September, 1795, John Wright, aged 70, deposes, he came to Virginia in 1747 or 1748 and was shown the land by James Glenn, Sr., who said John Miles claimed the land. A shingled house was uncommon. 17th February, 1795, Wm. Darke deposes, he was ordered out with the militia against the insurgents (in September) which prevented him from attending taking depositions in Philadelphia. Bond, 29th March, 1735, by Thomas Hart of Warminister in County Bucks, Penna., husbandman to Jost Hite of Orange County, Va. Gentleman title bond for 2 tracts, 1,000 acres on Elk Branch on the Wagon Road from Potomack to Opeckon, 500 acres northward from above. 27th September, 1794, Thos. Hart, aged 71 years, about 60 years ago his father, Thomas Hart, purchased 1,500 acres. In 1754 Thomas, Sr., was about to remove to Carolina." It does not say exactly where or if he did in fact go there. Note; at this time frame North and South Carolina were considered the same place and only referred to as the Carolinas. Thomas Hart was said to have died at the age of 104 years old and was the father of 19 children. Thomas SR Hart had an older brother John and younger brothers Josiah and Joseph. Union County, South Carolina History for Major James Franklin Hart #24300760 gives his parents as John Hart and Elizabeth Greer along with his grandfathers as Josiah Hart, a native of Virginia and Rev. Thomas S Greer. Note; Thomas S Greer, Thomas The Elder Hart and Easter Miles are all listed in the same cemetery. If Thomas the Elder is buried there, it remains unproven. 1810 Ashe County, NC census has a Josiah Hart over the age of 45, not far from Peter Hart and some of the James Hart family. This is the only information we have on Josiah. He might be the Josiah Hart 1764-1845, # 89208775. DNA results at the 27 marker stage for a direct male descendant of Peter Hart is an exact match to the Josiah Hart line in Union County South Carolina. Matches include William Josiah Hart, b. ca 1752, Christopher Hart, b. 1543, d. 1581, Oxfordshire, England, Miles Hart b. ca 1820, S.C and Josiah Hart (Brother of Ephraim). Note; the same markers are only 1 off from descendants of John Hart from New Jersey, the "Signer of the Declaration of Independence". Nothing is known about Peter's early life, it seems he spent some of that time in South Carolina. A Peter, John Hart and George Sizemore are listed together on the muster roll of John Hitchcock's company 1759-1760 during the Cherokee expedition to Fort Prince George, (current Pickens County) South Carolina (one of the Companies of Colonel George Gabriel Powell). Most of this unit was formed in the Old Darlington District of South Carolina near the Pee Dee River. However George Sizemore is from the Lower 96th District. Part of this District later became Union County, South Carolina. Our James and Peter Hart may have never lived in Georgia but they might have. Some of the Sizemore family did go to Georgia and were there for about 8 years from about 1765 until about 1773. Edward Sizemore and James Hart are listed as taxables in the same household in Surry Co, NC. under Col. Benjamin Cleveland in 1776. Ben Cleveland was also from Orange County, Virginia and would have been only a couple of years older then our Peter Hart. Did our Peter Hart know him in Virginia? 1779, Ben Cleveland wanted to hang Edward and Owen Sizemore. At the request of Capt. John Cox they were among those involved in the Tory insurrection who were allowed to take the oath of allegiance and post bond for their good behavior. If not for the actions of John Cox, many James Hart descendants might not be here today. 1880, Col. Benjamin Cleveland in Wilkesboro, NC hung a Tory said to be a Sizemore, perhaps these 3 brother's father, Edward, AKA "Old Ned". Edward, Owen and George Sizemore are included in a 1781 Tory payroll for the Spartanburg District of South Carolina. Their brother Ephraim Sizemore served as a patriot in the American Revolution in the S.C. militia after the fall of Charleston. He was in the New River valley in Virginia/NC in 1787, but the next year Ephraim left, probably to go to S.C. 1790, he was living in Orangeburg District, S.C. By 1800, he is in Spartanburg District, S.C. Peter Hart and his brother James Hart both appear on a muster roll of Capt. John Cox's Company in Montgomery County, Virginia in 1781. This record is found in the book "Montgomery County Revolutionary War Records 1775-1783." Deed Book 2: 1787-1788, p 241-244. 13 Dec 1784: James Rishtan of Ninety Six District S.C. Wit: James Hart... who swore by oath 14 Dec 1784 before William Moore, J.P. 1803 - George Sizemore, deed 100 ac to James Hart, Bakers Ridge, Crab Fork of Praters Creek. 1803 - James Hart, deed 100 ac to Peter Hart, George Koon's line on Praters Creek, wit: George Sisemore, Elisha Baldwin, Joseph Baldwin. "Descendants of Peter and Dority Hart 1740-1995 Virginia and North Carolina and Allied Families" by Ruth Gibbs Hart and Karen L. Cooper. Peter and Dority were the parents of nine children. Many of them left the area for Knox/Whitley County Kentucky, Hawkins County Tennessee and Mercer County Missouri. 1, James Hart born 1768, living in Knox County, Kentucky until 1812. 2, Mark Hart born Abt. 1770, married to Barbara Kirk on September 17, 1800 in Grayson County Virginia. 3, Margaret (Mahala) Hart born Bet. 1772 - 1774, NC, married Abt. 1796 to Stephen Floyd. They lived and died in Whitley/Knox County Kentucky but their grave sites are unknown. 4, William Hart born Abt. 1775, Montgomery/Grayson CO., VA, married Abt. 1798, VA or NC to Mary Cadwell (Caldwell). 5, Peter Jr Hart born about 1778, NC, married Hannah Poe, May 18, 1801

  • Sources 
    1. [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 22 Nov 2024), entry for Peter HART, person ID LXY4-F64. (Reliability: 3).



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