Biographical Sketch of John HART (1881); Chester County, PA

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from THE HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, by Futhey and Cope (1881);

John Hart of Chester County, the 2nd son of Col. Joseph Hart, of Bucks County, 
was born at Warminster, 11-29-1743.  He married, 9-13-1767, Rebecca Rees, of the 
Crooked Billet, and soon after removed to Chester County, where he purchased a 
mill and land near "Old Church".  From Chester county he was a delegate to the 
conference of the provincial deputies, held July 15, 1774, a member of the 
Constitutional Convention of July 15, 1776, and appointed justice of the peace 
July 25, 1777.  Owing to his warm espousal of the cause of the colonies, he was 
so persecuted by the Tories in 1778 that he was obliged to leave his mill and 
return to Bucks County, where he spent the remainder of his life.  In the spring 
of 1779 he succeeded Henry Wynkoop as treasurer of Bucks County, and was one of 
the victims of the Doane robberies, in October of 1781.  He died at Newtown, 
June 5, 1786, at the age of 43 years.