Deacon Nathan Hart, June 12, 1776 - May 11, 1861 From A. Andrews, Stephen Hart and his Descendants: Deacon Nathan Hart, North Cornwall, Conn., eldest son of Titus Hart, of the same place, and his wife Esther (Hand), born June 12th, 1776, at North Cornwall; married February 8th, 1804, Sylvia, daughter of Hezekiah Clark, and his wife, Sylvia (Hill), born April 8th, 1785. She died December 4th, 1839, of paralysis. He succeeded his father as deacon. "Their twelve children all became hopefully pious and united with the church before they had completed their twentieth year, the principal cause of which instrumentality the father ascribes to a pious, judicious, and unremitted material influence." His son, Titus, writes of him as follows, dated February, 1872:"Deacon Nathan Hart left behind him a rich and precious legacy of prayer, both for the church of which he was for many years a deacon, as well as for his numerous family, all of whom know in some measure how to prize so glorious a boon from so good a parent." |