According to the work by J. Houston Harrison, SETTLERS BY THE LONG GREY TRAIL: SOME PIONEERS TO OLD AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND THEIR DECENDANTS, OF THE FAMILY OF HARRISON AND ALLIED LINES. (Joseph K. Ruebush: Dayton, Virginia, 1935), there were Bucks County, Pennsylvania in early Augusta County. This is borne out by the works of Kegley, Chalkley and others.
They were settlers of the region of the "North Fork" and included brothers John, Silas and Thomas Hart (pg. 168). Thomas was the only one who settled in the lower valley region but all feature in early Orange Co. records:
25 Sept 1741 - John Hart sworn in as under sheriff of Irish Tract (this was another name for the Beverly Manor lands developed to attract settlers (See Early Settlements). See a map here ; note many names that appear on later deeds and documents are visible but none clearly Hart or Terry. An intriguing one, however, is Johnson/Johnston. There is Hart marriage to a Johnson in Bucks Co.
25 March 1742 - Thomas Hart appointed constable
25 August 1745 Silas Hart appointed administrator and next of kin to brother John Hart. [note this implies a death date ] This source identified them as sons of John and Eleanor Crispin Hart of Bucks Co., Virginia. In total the couple had ten children but only the following are identified in this source:
John
Silas (1718-1795) who md Jane Robertson, a widow
Thomas who md Mary Combs in 1722
Joseph (1715-1788) eldest son who apparently remained in Bucks Co., and served as a patriot during the revolution
Oliver (1723-1795), entered Baptist ministry 1748 and in 1749 he he served 30 years as a minister in Charleston, South Carolina. When that city fell to the British he returned to his home and died in Hopewell, New Jersey.
The immigrant Hart was identified as John Hart, born Whitby, Oxfordshire and arrived in 1682. He was a Quaker but then became a Baptist. He married Susannah Rush. He died ca 1714.
John and Susannah had the following children:
John (1684-1763) md Eleanor Crispin d/o Silas and Easter Holme Crispin
Thomas
Josiah
Mary
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