When Elias Hart Jr. was born on 5 November 1784, in Cornwall, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Capt. Elias Hart, was 25 and his mother, Philomela Burnham, was 20. He married Hannah Harrison in 1807. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 5 March 1865, in Cornwall, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Cornwall, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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