BIOGRAPHY: Peter G. Hart; New York co., NY
surname: Hart

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Author: Walter Barrett

PETER G.HART
Page 52

"The Old Merchants"
By Walter Barrett, Clerk
Pub:Thomas R. Knox and Co. 1885 NY


Peter G. Hart was in the employ of Thomas H. Smith and Son but in 1806, Hart 
left their employ and started the wholesale grocery business in the same 
place--No. 196 and there he continued standing for twenty odd years, gaining 
daily, and becoming very rich, while Mr. Smith branched out, and became
ruined.

Mr. Hart had his store at No. 196 Front Street as late as 1827 when he died.  
He resided at 35 Beekman Street and the family were attendants of Dr. Milnor's 
Church. He left several charming daugters.  The widow, after his death, moved 
to No. 127 Hudson Street. She afterwards moved to 535 Broadway, two doors this 
side of John G. Coster's house (now a Chinese building). I think that property 
was left to Widow Peter. She afterwards moved to East Sixteenth Street.