David L Hart Jr

Brief Life History of David L

When David L Hart Jr was born on 10 April 1799, in Dublin, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, his father, David Hart, was 25 and his mother, Lucy Page, was 22. He married Eliza Griggs on 7 September 1823, in Brighton, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Brighton, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America in 1843 and Brighton, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1850. He died on 3 April 1862, in Brighton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Brighton, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

David L Hart Jr
1799–1862
Eliza Griggs
1804–1860
Marriage: 7 September 1823
Hart
1825–1825
Hiram Griggs Hart
1827–1829
Eliza Jane Hart
1829–1919
David Griggs Hart
1832–1860
Mary Caroline Hart
1834–1836
Maria Slade Hart
1838–1914
Joanna Aspinwall Hart
1840–1859
Mary Adeline Hart
1843–1861

Sources (20)

  • David Hart, "United States Census, 1850"
  • David Hart, "Massachusetts, Deaths, 1841-1915"
  • David Hunt, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"

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World Events (8)

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

1807

24 Feb. 1807 Brighton established as a town created from the south parish of Cambridge. 27 Jan. 1816 Part of Cambridge annexed. 5 Jan. 1874 Brighton annexed to Boston by act of 21 May 1873 [Mass. Acts 1873, ch. 303, sec. 1, p. 747] that was approved by both on 27 Oct. 1873.

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

Name Meaning

English and North German: nickname from Middle English hert (Old English heorot), Middle Low German hërte, harte ‘hart, stag’, perhaps for a quick-footed or timorous individual.

German: variant of Hardt 1 and 2. It is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).

Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name or nickname from German and Yiddish hart ‘hard’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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