Rev. Oliver Hart and Sarah Breece

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Husband Rev. Oliver Hart ¹

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           Born: 5 Jul 1723 1
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           Died: 31 Dec 1795 - Hopewell, NJ 1
         Buried:  - Southampton, Bucks Co, PA

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         Father: John Hart, Jr. (1684-1763) 2
         Mother: Eleanor Crispin (1687-1754) 2

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Anna Maria Sealy (      -      ) 1 - 5 Apr 1774 1

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Wife Sarah Breece ¹

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         Father: Henry Breece (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Hannah [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Oliver Hart

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He was a minister of the Southampton Baptist Church, and with his father one of its founders. In 1749 he became pastor of the First Baptist Curch of Charleston, South Carolina, and the College of Rhode Island made him Master of Arts at its first commencement, in 1769. "The breaking out of the Revolutionary War found Mr. Hart laboring in his church; but when the tocsin of war was sounded it filled him with the same patriotic ardor that burned in the bosoms of other members of his family." He served on important commissions for the Provincial Congress of South Carolina, and received the thanks of that body. When the British captured Charleston, he returned to Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and never went back to South Carolina; but his descendants included many of the most distinguished families of that state, and of Georgia, and neighboring states, bearing the names of Lee, Coxe, Screven, etc., as well as Hart. He died at Hopewell, New Jersey, while pastor of the Baptist church there, but was buried in his ancestral churchyard at Southampton, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 375.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 361.