Personal Life
By 1739 John Hart had acquired his own farm near Smithville, and in 1741 he married Deborah Scudder. The couple would have thirteen children: Sarah, Jesse, Martha, Nathaniel, John, Susanna, Mary, Abagail, Edward, Scudder, an infant daughter, Daniel, and Deborah, of whom only Daniel and Deborah were still minor children at John Hart's death in 1779. Deborah Hart predeceased her husband, dying October 8, 1776.
Hart was a member of the Pennington Presbyterian Church, but in 1747 he donated a piece of land in his front meadow to local Baptists who had been seeking a place to build a church of their own. The location was known for some time thereafter as the Old Baptist Meeting House.
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