(1) Name: Nathaniel Gray HART
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Death: January 22, 1813
Father: Thomas HART (1730-1808)
Mother: Susanna GRAY (1749-1832)
Misc. Notes
NATHANIEL GRAY HART; married Ann Gist, daughter of Thomas Gist, of Bourbon County. He became Captain of the Lexington Light Infantry, which was organized May 11, 1812. They were called the "Silk Stocking Boys," and were attached to the Fifth Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Militia, commanded by Colonel William Lewis. Captain Nathaniel G. T. Hart was captured by the Indians at the Battle of the River Raisin, January 22, 1813. [1]
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The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky, Cincinnati, Ohio: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878; New Material Copyright by the Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Southern Historical Press, 1980, p. 193.
HART, CAPT. NATHANIEL G. T., Lawyer and Merchant, was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, and brought, while a boy, by his father, Col. Thomas Hart, to Lexington, Kentucky. He studied law, and practiced his profession for several years at Lexington; but finally abandoned the law for mercantile pursuits. In 1812, he commanded the "Lexington Light Infantry," with which he entered the service of the country; served a part of the Winter campaign of that year as a staff officer; commanded his company at the battle of Frenchtown, on the river Raisin, January 22, 1813; was wounded and taken prisoner, and was murdered during the subsequent massacre. In honor of him, Hart County was named. Capt. Hart left a wife, who was Miss Ann Gist. She died shortly after his own tragic death. Their son, Henry Clay Hart, was long a resident of Paris, Kentucky.
Spouses
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1: Ann GIST
Father: Captain Thomas GIST
Sources
1. The Clay Family, p. 231.
(2) Name: Nathaniel HART
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Birth: May 8, 1734 Hanover County, Virginia
Death: July 22, 1782 Boonesborough, Madison County, Kentucky Age: 48
Father: Thomas HART (1679-1755)
Mother: Susanna RICE (1699-)
Misc. Notes
Ardery, Julia Spencer. Kentucky records. (Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1965-72), Volume II, pp. 198-199:
GIBSON FAMILY BIBLE
BIRTHS
Susannah Hart Gibson (called after her grandmother), dau. of Tobias and Louisiana B. Gibson, born 30th May, 1828, at "Spring Hill," residence of Nathaniel Hart, Woodford County, Ky.
Sarah Thompson Gibson, 2nd child, dau. of Tobias and Louisiana Breckinridge Gibson, born May 17, 1830 at home of Ambrose Gibson, Warren County, Miss., 8 o'clock; named for her aunt.
Randal Gibson, son, born Sept. 10th, 1831, at Spring Hill; named after his grandfather, Rev. Randal Gibson.
Wm. Preston Gibson, son, born Oct. 16th, 1833, at home in Terreboune Parish, La.; named for his maternal uncle.
Son, Nathaniel Hart Gibson, born May 22nd, 1835, at "Shawnee Springs,' residence of Col. G. C. Thompson, Ky.; called for his grandsire, Nathaniel Hart.
Son, Claudius Gibson, born Feb. 5th, 1837, Terreboune, La.; named for his maternal uncle.
Son, Tobias Gibson, born Aug. 6th, 1838, in Lexington, Ky.; named for his father.
John McKinley Gibson, born Oct. 3, 1840, in Lexington; named for his paternal great-grandfather, John McKinley.
Son, Robt. Breckinridge Gibson, born Feb. 6, 1845, in Lexington; named for his cousin, Robt. J. Breckinridge.
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Louisiana Breckinridge Hart Gibson, born Jan. 28, 1848, at Oak Forest, on Bayon Black; named for her mother.
MARRIAGES
Tobias Gibson of Jefferson County, Miss., was married to Louisiana Breckinridge Hart, third daughter of Nathaniel and Susanna Preston Hart, of Woodford County, Ky., on 14th day of June, in 1827, by the Rev. Geo. T. Chapman, of Lexington, Ky.
Sarah T. Gibson was married to Josephy A. Humphreys of Woodford County, on June 21, 1853, by Rev. Robt. Black of Lexington.
Wm. Preston Gibson was married to Elodie M. Humphreys, of St. James Parish, La., July, 1855.
Hart Gibson was married to Mary E. Duncan of Lexington, 22nd Sept., 1859, Lexington.
DEATHS
Susannah H. Gibson, died Jan. 20, 1830, at home of Ambrose Gibson, Warren County, Miss., and was buried at Dr. W. Faulks. Removed to and buried at Lexington, Ky. Aged 1 year 7 months 21 days.
Mrs. Susan Preston Hart died at her residence in Woodford County, Ky., aged 33; mother of Louisiana Breckinridge Hart Gibson.
Nathaniel Hart of Woodford County, Ky., father of Louisiana B. H. Gibson. (No date.)
Robert Breckinridge Gibson, buried at Traveler's Rest, 1845, son of Tobias and Louisiana B. H. Gibson, removed and buried at Lexington, June 27, 1857.
Louisiana B. Gibson, wife of Tobias Gibson, died in city of Havana, Cuba, where she had gone for her health, after two years sickness, on Feb. 20, 1851, and buried in Lexington, March 22, in 47th year of her age.
Randal Gibson died at his residence in Warren County, Miss., on April 13, 1836, aged 69 years. Father of Tobias Gibson.
Mrs. Harriett McKinley Gibson died at her residence in Warren County, Miss., on Oct. 6th, 1837, aged 57; mother of Tobias Gibson.
Claudius Gibson died at home of Mrs. S. S. Booth, in Warren County, Miss., on June 4th, 1841. Eldest brother of Tobias Gibson.
Nathaniel Hart, born of Louisiana B. H. Gibson, 1854, Spring Hill, Woodford County, Ky.
Gibson Bible, Philadelphia, Pa., 1826.
Spouses
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1: Sarah SIMPSON
Birth: February 24, 1743/44 Alexandria, Virginia
Death: Lincoln County, Kentucky
Father: Colonel Richard SIMPSON
Mother: Miss KINCHELOE
Children: Susannah
John
Nathaniel (1760-)
Chenoe
Keziah
(3) Name: Nathaniel HART
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Birth: 1760 Woodford County, Kentucky
Father: Nathaniel HART (1734-1782)
Mother: Sarah SIMPSON (1743-)
Misc. Notes
LETTER BY NATHANIEL HART TO DRAPER. 1838. 2CC26
I have been a resident of Kentucky since the fall of 1779 to the present time. I was too young to be an actor in many of the trying scones of that early period but from 1788 until the conclusion of Col Wayne's treaty in 1795, I missed few opportunities of joining in the pursuit of such parties of Indiana as made incursions into the section of Kentucky where I resided. From 1779 to 1786 my residence was in the fort at Boonsborough, which my father, in conjunction with others, had erected as early as 1775. He fell by the Indian tommahawk in the dangerous season of 1782, just before the disasterous battle of the Blue Licks and as my widowed mother survived him but two years, from that period I relied upon my rifle for a greater part of my food and rainment. From the fall of 1786 I resided in the neighborhood of Harrodsburg and the Indians, who then annoyed that part of the Country, generally crossed the Ohio river between the mouth of the Kentucky and Louisville, passing up on the south side of the river, which was then a wilderness, to McAfee’s Station. I was twice engaged in the pursuit of these Indians as far as the banks of the Ohio without further success than that of killing a fine blooded horse under an Indian who made his escape. Gen. Scott's son, while fishing on the bank of the Kentucky rivers was killed by a party of of these Indians, in sight of his fathers house and surveyor, Robert Todd, as late as 1794, was killed in view of Frankfort immediately before the Legislature convened at that place. In 1780, the Brittish officer, Bird Col Bird, with his Indian army, decended the Big Miami and ascended Licking river as far as the mouth of Beaver creeks captured Riddles and Martins stations with the aid of his artillery. Some years after this the Federal government, for a while prohibited the Kentuckians from pursuing the Indians beyond the Ohio, but they were sometimes tempted to cross over in disregard of the injunction. On one occasion, I think in the spring of 1788, in the immediate neighborhood of your flourishing city, they met an unexpectedly large encampment of the enemy, who gave them battle and soon routed our little party with considerable loss, Samue1 and Moses Grant, the later of whom had been my school mate the previous year, were both killed at this time. Gen. Wm Lytle, after participating in the conflict, exerted himself in conducting from the ground to the canoes one or two men who were wounded, apprehending that the foremost of the party might push out from the shore before the wounded could reach it, he went ahead and finding them in the act of starting, he was only able to restrain them by raising his rifle and threatening to to shoot the first man who struck an oar till the wounded men could get up. At this critical juncture, when they expected to be fired on every instance by the enemy, an individual, then of some note in the country, threw himself out of the canoe into the river on the opposite side from the shore and patiently held on until the wounded were brought up, to the great merriment of all the rest. But in the spirit of the old injunction "to say nothing of the dead but what is creditable", so it may be proper here to remark that the decendants of this individual have long since distinguished themselves by driving the Indians beyond the Lakes. About the year 1790, Gen. Scott and Col. John Edwards conducted a party across the Ohio to break up an encampment of the enemy who had been committing great depredations on our river craft. On their arrival, the Indians had decamped, but they caught a white man in a canoe who refused to give satisfactory answers to their interragatories, when their patience was nearly exhausted, Gen. Scott demanded of him how long he had been with the Savages. Looking cooly up to the sun, he replied, " About two hours", alluding to the time he had been their prisoner. Strange to say, the party left this individual uninjured, being unable to determine whether he was deranged or totally regardless of his life. My first and only visit to Fort Washington, The site of your city, was in 1794, on my way to join Gen. Wayne's army, and I shall never forget a scene which I witnessed on my return; Cincinnati then of ten or a dozen rough log cabins on the bank of the river. A two story hewed log house, where I found Capt Gordon, an old acquaintance, keeping a house of entertainment, with whom Gen. Barbee, Col. Beatty and myself quartered for a day or two. On our way out, one of our Kentucky Colonels, (who was more remarkable for his willingness to fight than to pay his just debts), had contracted a debt with grocer, which the grocer was anxious to collect on our return, but as it was not entirely convenient, the Colonel refused to discharge it - a writ was obtained and placed in the hands of the Sheriff to arrest him. He was found smoking a pipe tommahawk in one of these cabins with a crowd of officers and soldiers around him and evinced a desposition not to be taken, when the sheriff exclaimed, "Clear the way and let me at him, God Almighty just made me to take such a man". When he had approached near enough the Col reached forward with his tommahawk and gave him a gentle chop on the heads upon which the officer wheeled to the right about and marched off with double quick step, considerably doubting the purpose for which he had been created. We had but little intercourse with the Licking previous to 1790. Frankfort, Georgetown and Paris were fronteer settlements when the U. S. Army erected Fort Washington, and even after that periods Kentucky had several forts or blockhouses on the banks of the Ohio to guard our frontier. In 1791, Gen Scott went to Fort Washington to consult with Gen Harmer in regard to the campaign conducted that year from Kentucky by Scott and Wilkinson. A guard of twenty dragoons was furnished from Lexington, who were equiped in handsome style, the General, himself in ordinary dress. Upon reaching the river he started to lead his horse into the boat ahead of the dragoon when the ferryman directed him to stand aside while the gentlemen crossed over. Some one of the company then whispered to the ferryman that the man was Gen Scott, when he exclaimed, with an oath, that he had taken him for a waiter. This, of course, diverted the old General very much and furnished the material for one of his good stories. I know of no person living in this part of Kentucky who participated in the settlement of Cincinnati as early as the year 1788; My former neighbor, Jacob Sodusky, of Jessamine county, who died some six years since, informed me that he had cut down the first tree on the site of Cincinnati for the purpose of building a cabin there. He was a man proverbial for his truth and integrity as well as for enterprise, having come out with a small party as early as 1774 to explore Kentucky and finding the country much infested with the Savages, they were detained from attempting to return to Virginia directly either by land or water, but ran down to New Orleans, in their canoes, and taking passage on a vessel to Baltimore, thence reached their homes on the South Branch of the Potomac after the absence of a year. When Fort Washington was first erected, the Indiana showed no disposition to kill the regular soldiers for some time, and in consequence of this, the oommander of the U S Army was induced to charge the Kentuckians with unnecessarily provoking the attacks of the Indians. In a short time, however, his tune was changed, for they soon evinced as great a desire to scalp his men as the had done the Kentuckians. Col. Elliott, the contractor of the U S Army, and the father of the present Commander Elliott of the American Navy, was the last person killed in the neighborhood of Fort "Washington that I knew of. As soon as Gen Wayne had succeeded in the objects of the campaign of 1794, Elliott quit the Army and was hastening in to forward out supplies to the garrison, when he was shot and scalped by the Indians between Fort Washington and Hamilton, having directed his servant to make his escape. On the following day a detachment of soldiers went with a cart and oxen with a coffin to bring in his remains. The party had placed the corpse in the cart they were fired on, Elliott's servant killed, the coffin broken open and the corpse much mutilated. On the third day the soldiers, for they were much attached to their contractor, rode to the place and throwing the corpse across a horse, galloped off with it. A few days afterwards, on my return from Fort Wayne, I saw the coffin lying on the road side broken to pieces. Had it not been for the buffalos and other wild game I am satisfied that Kentucky could not have been settled at the time it was, for this constituted the main resource with the settlers who were frequently without bread and salt. In the winter it was hung up in an open house and kept frozen; in the summer it was jerked in the woods and afterwards used in that state, sometimes recooked with butter and cream, of which we had an abundance. There were some 40 to 50 persons in my fathers family. One bushel of salt was as much as we could procur a year; the article was manufactured at Mann's Lick and at Bullit's Lick, in the neighborhood of Louisville, and was procured in the upper settlements with great trouble and risk. I have frequently seen a party of 10 or 15 hunters in the woods for a week with a little bag of salt containing perhaps a gill, which of course was used most sparingly. The hump of the buffalo was the choice delicacy with the hunters; when they were killed near our forts, they were split into and with a pole, or, when too heavy for that, with the assistance of a sapling, bent down for the purpose, half the buffalo was put upon the pack saddle and taken in. When killed at a distance from the forts, the skins were taken off and used as a sack, in which 3 or 4 hundred pounds of meat was carried at a load. But the constant dread of Indians made this an unwelcome business to all but the intrepid, as they were frequently fired on with these heavy loads on their horses, the riders sometimes on the packs, in such cases to get clear of the loads and save their lives was no trifling consideration.
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THE HART FAMILY
Letter by Nathaniel Hart to Draper 1842. 2CC27-2
Thomas, John, Benjamin, David, Nathaniel and Susannah Hart were raised in Hanover county, Virginia, and about the middle of the last century removed to North Carolina (then a now country). Thomas settled near Hillsborough. David and my father, Nathaniel, settled in what is now Caswell county. My father built the Red House and lived there until 1779 when he removed to Kentucky. David Hart lived and died there, his family are living on lands in Tennessee and Kentucky. John Hart died in early life, leaving one child, Susannah, who married John Luttrell, who was killed in an engagement with the Tories and his widow married Doctor John Umstead. Benjamin Hart removed to Georgia and died there. Susannah married James Gooch and died leaving two children, James and Nancy who married Jesse Benton, the father of Thomas Hart Benton and Jesse Benton, Colonel Thomas Hart came to Kentucky in the fall 1775 and David Hart in the spring 1776. My father was here more than half his time from the spring of 1775 to the fall of 1779, he had travelled the Wilderness road 14 times, he was killed on the 22nd of July 1782 at Boonsborough.
LETTER BY NATHANIEL HART TO DRAPER. 1853 2CC29
Col Thomas Hart was born and raised in Hanover county, Virginia, being the eldest of five sons and one daughter of Thomas Hart of Hanover. The daughter being the grandmother of Col Thomas Benton of Missouri. He removed to Orange county North Carolina about the year 1760 where he married a lady of fortune and where he continued to reside until the invasion of that State by Cornwallis in 1780 or 81, when he made a hurried sale of his lands and removed through Virginia to Hagerstown in Maryland, where he made a temporary residence with the view of removing the next spring to Kentucky. But the death of my grandfather by the Indians just before the fatal battle ofthe Blue Licks, deterred him from his favorite purpose until the spring of 1794. As the older members of his family were daughters, my father (then 24 years of age) escorted his uncles family from Maryland to Kentucky and upon their arrival at Lexington, immediately started on Waynes Campaign, where he acted as Aid de Camp to Gen Todd of the Kentucky Volunteers in the battle of the Fallen Timbers. Col Thomas Harts son, Capt Nathaniel Gray Hart, was afterwards killed near Waynes Battlefield, at the battle of the Raisin in 1813. Col Thomas Hart died in 1807.
Spouses
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1: Susanna PRESTON
Birth: February 12, 1769 Smithfield, Montgomery, Virginia
Death: 1833 Spring Hill Plantation, Woodford County, Kentucky Age: 63
Father: Col. William PRESTON
Mother: Susanna SMITH
Children: Virginia
Louisiana Breckenridge (1795-)
(4) Name: Thomas HART
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Birth: 1679 Hanover County, Virginia
Death: 1755 Hanover County, Virginia Age: 76
Father: Thomas HART (~1660-)
Misc. Notes
Thomas Hart, the immigrant, came from England to Hanover County, Virginia, about the close of the seventeenth century. He married Susanna Rice, the daughter of Thomas Rice, an Englishman of Welch extraction, an early adventurer into Virginia, who settled in Hanover. Mr. Hart died in that county in 1755. [1]
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1. Thomas Hart, the immigrant, came from England to Hanover County, Virginia, about the close of the seventeenth century. He married Susanna Rice, the daughter of Thomas Rice, an Englishman of Welch extraction, an early adventurer into Virginia, who settled in Hanover. Mr. Hart died in that county in 1755. They had issue:
2. 1. THOMAS HART; married Susanna Gray, of North Carolina.
In 1794 he came to Lexington, Kentucky, where he diedJune 23, 1809, 4 4 an old and very respectable inhabitantof this place" (Kentucky Gazette). His will was probatedin Fayette County, July, 18og. Mrs. Hart died in Lex-ington in 1832.
II. JOHN HART; settled and died in Henderson, Kentucky. He married Miss Lane, of Hanover County, Virginia. Issue: Thomas.
III. BENJAMIN HART; settled in Missouri.
IV. DAVID HART, of North Carolina; married Miss Nunn.
V. NATHANIEL HART, born in 1714; married Sarah Simpson in 1740. His home was "Red House," Caswell County, North Carolina. He settled at Boonesborough, Kentucky, in 1779, near which place he was killed by the Indians in 1785.
VI. A DAUGHTER, name unknown; married James Gooch, of Georgia. Their daughter, Ann, married Colonel Jesse Benton, and died in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1837. A soil, James Gooch, remained in Georgia. Colonel Jesse Benton and Ann Gooch were the parents of Honorable Thomas H. Benton, who for thirty years was United States Senator from Missouri.
2. Thomas Hart and Susanna Gray had issue:
1. THOMAS HART; married Nellie Grosch, of Hagerstown, Maryland.
11. NATHANIEL GRAY HART; married Ann Gist, daughter of Thomas Gist, of Bourbon County. He became Captain of the Lexington Light Infantry, which was organized May 11, 1812. They were called the "Silk Stocking Boys," and were attached to the Fifth Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Militia, commanded by Colonel William Lewis. Captain Nathaniel G. T. Hart was captured by the Indians at the Battle of the River Raisin, January 22, 1813. Issue:
I. THOMAS HART; died unmarried.
II. HENRY HART; married Elizabeth Brent, daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth (Langhorne) Brent, of Paris, Kentucky, and settled in St. Louis, Missouri. Their children were:
I. ELIZABETH HART; unmarried. II. NATHANIEL G. HART.
III. HUGH HART; married Nannie Fry. Issue: Elizabeth Hart, married Walter Gage. Issue: Mary Bartley Gage.
IV. HENRY HART.
III. JOHN HART, who died in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1820.
IV. ELIZA HART, born September 9, 1768, died in Hagerstown, Maryland, August, 1798; married Doctor Richard Pindell, a surgeon in the Maryland line of the Revolutionary army, who died in Lexington, Kentucky, March 16, 1833.
V. SUSANNA HART; married Samuel Price, and died in Louisville in 1865. Issue:
I. NANETTE PRICE; married Thomas Smith, and died in Louisville in 1878.
II. ELIZA PRICE; married Honorable Thomas A. Marshall, born in Woodford County, Kentucky, January 15, 1794, and died in Louisville, April 16, 1871.
VI. NANCY HART; married Honorable James Brown (son of Honorable John and Margaret (Preston) Brown), born September 11, 1766, in Virginia.
VII. LUCRETIA HART, born March 18, 1781; married Honorable Henry Clay.
Spouses
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1: Susanna RICE
Birth: 1699 Virginia
Father: Thomas RICE
Children: Thomas (1730-1808)
Nathaniel (1734-1782)
Susannah
Sources
1. The Clay Family, p. 231.
(5) Name: Thomas HART
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Birth: 1730
Death: 1808 Age: 78
Father: Thomas HART (1679-1755)
Mother: Susanna RICE (1699-)
Misc. Notes
THOMAS HART; married Susanna Gray, of North Carolina. In 1794 he came to Lexington, Kentucky, where he died June 23, 1809, "an old and very respectable inhabitant of this place " (Kentucky Gazette). His will was probated in Fayette County, July, 1809. Mrs. Hart died in Lexington in 1832. [1]
Spouses
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1: Susanna GRAY
Birth: 1749
Death: 1832 Age: 83
Children: Lucretia (1781-1864)
Nathaniel Gray (-1813)
Eliza
Thomas (1772-1809)
Sources
1. The Clay Family, p. 231.
(6) Name: Thomas HART IV
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Birth: 1772
Death: 1809 Age: 37
Father: Thomas HART (1730-1808)
Mother: Susanna GRAY (1749-1832)
Misc. Notes
THOMAS HART, IV [1]
(1772-1809)
Fourth in descent from Thomas Hart of London, who came to Hanover County, Virginia, about 1690, our subject was the grandson of Thomas Hart, 1679-1755, who married Susannah Rice. About 1760 his widow moved to Orange County, North Carolina, where her son, Thomas, 1730-1808, was a member of the Provincial Congress in 1774, and served as colonel in the Revolutionary war. He and his brothers, Nathaniel and David, were three of the nine North Carolinians who negotiated the Wautauga treaty, by which the Transylvania Company secured some 17,000,000 acres between the Cumberland, the Kentucky, and Louisa Rivers. After a twenty day parley with the Indians, the deeds signed by Ocinistoto, Chief of the Cherokee Nation, and Attacullahcullah and Savanoolo or Coronoh, delegated associates, were delivered, leading directly to the blazing of a trail into Kentucky and greatly accelerating its settlement. After his marriage to Susannah Gray, 1749-1832, Colonel Thomas Hart moved from "Hartford," North Carolina, to Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1780 and from there to Lexington. In 1794 he built the twelve-room house at Mill and Second Street, recently demolished, where his daughter, Lucretia, was married to Henry Clay.
After his death in i8o8, his widow, and his son, Thomas, the subject of this illustration, sold the place to John Bradford. Thomas Hart, IV, survived his father but one short year.
Oil on wood, 29" X 24". By Matthew Harris Jouett (Menefee No. 170)
Owner: Mrs. William P. Bohon (Nell Talbot Arnold), Louisville
F. A. R. L. print and data from the late Miss Sophia Hart Arnold, Paris
Spouses
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1: Eleanor GROSH
Birth: 1772
Death: 1856 Age: 84
Father: Johann GROSH
Mother: Maria Sophia GUTENBERG
Misc. Notes
MRS. THOMAS HART (Eleanor Grosh) [2]
(1772-1856)
When the oldest child of John Conrad Grosh of Mayence, Germany, and his wife, Maria Sophia Gutenberg, reached the age of ten or twelve, his parents left their Rhenish home and came to Maryland with a group of Germans who settled Frederick in 1746. During the Revolution Mr. Grosh sided with the colonists and served on the committees of observation and correspondence, as did his son, Peter. The latter was also active as lieutenant of a company of minute men, and later, of the regular Frederick militia.
Born to Peter and Mary Charlton Grosh, our subject was married to Thomas Hart at Hagerstown and came with him to live in Lexington by 1794. To the same place came two sisters, Sophia, who married Rev. Edwin Porter Clay, brother of Henry Clay, and Catherine, who married John Wesley Hunt and later became the grandmother of the dashing Confederate ranger, John Hunt Morgan. These three Grosh sisters were first cousins of Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner," for his mother, Ann Phoebe Penn Charlton, wife of John Ross Key, was a sister of their mother.
Shown at a loan exhibit in Cincinnati in 1896 and at the Art Museum for the year following, this Jouett came down to its present owner, a third great-granddaughter. Another charming later portrait of Mrs. Hart belongs to Mrs. Martha Talbot Richards of Paris.
Oil on canvas, 29" X 24". By Matthew H. Jouett (Menefee No. 171)
Owner: Mrs. William P. Bobon (Nell Talbot Arnold), Louisville
F. A. R. L. print and data from the late Miss Sophia Hart Arnold, Paris
Children: Thomas Pindell (1796-ca1841)
Sources
1. Whitley, Edna Talbott. Kentucky Ante-Bellum Portraiture, (The National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1956), pp. 382-383
2. Whitley, Edna Talbott. Kentucky Ante-Bellum Portraiture, (The National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1956), pp. 380-381
(7) Name: Lucretia HART
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Birth: 1781
Death: 1864 Age: 83
Father: Thomas HART (1730-1808)
Mother: Susanna GRAY (1749-1832)
Misc. Notes
MRS. HENRY CLAY (1781-1864) [1]
(Lucretia Hart)
The youngest child of Colonel Thomas Hart of Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, and Kentucky, our subject was about thirteen when she came to Lexington to reside. Her mother, Susannah Gray Hart, was the daughter of a loyalist English officer, who settled in Maryland about
1779.
In a true love match, Lucretia was united in marriage in 1799 to the young attorney, Henry Clay. Her sweetness and dignity are apparent in her portrait. Furthering her husband's political career in a way uncommon in her time, she operated "Ashland" advantageously, according to plans, received throngs of visitors who clamored to pay their respects to her husband, and bad a large family of children.
Henrietta died in infancy, Laura at two years, Eliza in her early teens, while traveling to Washington in 1825, and Lucretia at the age of fourteen. Though Theodore, the oldest son, was able to survive for many years after fracturing his skull at sixteen, his injury causing him and his parents untold distress. Thomas Hart, 1803-1862, married Maria Mentelle and settled nearby at lovely "Mansfield," erected for their use. Ann Brown (Mrs. James Erwin) lived to be twenty-eight. Henry Clay, Jr.'s promising legal career was terminated in 1847 at the Battle of Buena Vista; James Brown, 1817-1862, a graduate of the law department of Transylvania in 1842, became charge' d'affaires to Portugal in 1849 and died in exile in Canada, during the War Between the States. With her son, John Morrison Clay, Mrs. Clay spent her last years.
Spouses
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1: Henry CLAY
Birth: April 12, 1777
Death: June 29, 1852 Washington, D.C. Age: 75
Education: Statesman--Senator, 1806; Speaker, 1811; Secretary Of State, 1825
Father: Rev. John CLAY
Mother: Elizabeth HUDSON (1749-1829)
Misc. Notes
53. Henry Clay, the Hero of the Clan, the great Kentuckian, and the greater American, was born in Hanover County, Virginia, April 12, 1777. All are familiar with his life from the day on which he earned the soubriquet of "The Mill-boy of the Slashes" until his remains were laid to rest in the vaulted chamber of the imposing monument Kentucky has erected to his memory. We can speak no word of eulogy that has not been already spoken, for historians have vied with each other in computing the wonderful results of his great moral and intellectual achievements, but probably the most salient points of his successful career, at least those which Mr. Clay desired most should be remembered, are to be found engraved upon the large gold medal presented him by the citizens of New York in commemoration of his National service. The inscription, about which he was consulted, reads thus:
SENATE, 1806.
SPEAKER, 1811.
WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN, 1812.
GHENT, 1814.
SPANISH AMERICA, 1821.
MISSOURI COMPROMISE, 1821.
AMERICAN SYSTEM, 1824.
GREECE, 1824,
SECRETARY OF STATE, 1825.
PANAMA INSTRUCTIONS, 1826,
TARIFF COMPROMISE, 1833.
PUBLIC DOMAIN, 1833-1841.
PEACE WITH FRANCE PRESERVED, 1835.
COMPROMISE, 1850.
This inscription indicates the work he had satisfactorily accomplished in the half century of his public service, and near the end of life he placed upon it the signet of his approbation.
His integrity as, a public man remained without blemish throughout his long political career, and almost every thing he did was illumined by a grand conception of the destinies of his country, a glowing national spirit, and a lofty patriotism.
Mr. Clay died in Washington City, June 29, 1852, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. On July ist the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, together with the city authorities, military companies, and civic associations, accompanied his remains from the National Hotel to the Senate Chamber, where, attended by the President of the United States, the Cabinet, and the officers of the Army and Navy, the funeral services took place. The remains were then brought to Kentucky, the funeral cortege passing through Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, -the principal places of New Jersey and New York, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Louisville, and then to Lexington. Everywhere the people assembled by thousands to pay the last tribute of respect to the illustrious statesman. From his own beautiful home the "Sage of Ashland" was carried to his last resting-place. He married, in 1799, Lucretia Hart, born March 18, 1781, daughter of Thomas Hart and Susanna Gray, who settled in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1794. Mrs. Clay survived him twelve years, and sleeps by his side in the second sarcophagus in the tomb. Mrs. Clay was a gentle, sweet woman, and while she spent much of her time with her husband in Washington, she cared little for the social life of the Capital. During her stay there, while Mr. Clay was Secretary of State, she lost two lovely daughters, Eliza, who died en route to Washington, and Mrs. Duralde, who died with yellow fever in New Orleans.
At the end of President Adams' administration she returned to Ashland, never to leave it again. Another, and her last daughter, Mrs. Erwin, died, and Theodore, her eldest son, was hopelessly insane. From these sorrows she never recovered, and spent her time in the seclusion of her family, receiving only her most intimate friends.
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HON. HENRY CLAY [2]
(1777- 1852)
The course of action taken by Henry Clay, known to school children as the man who would rather be right, than President," can be traced by his successive soubriquets: "Mill Boy of the Hanover Slashes," "The Great Commoner," "The Great Pacificator," "The Great Compromiser," and "The Sage of Ashland." In early political service in Kentucky, he advocated a plan for the gradual emancipation of slaves.
For five of the twenty-six years spent in the U. S. Senate and House, he was Speaker. As a member of the commission to Ghent, he helped negotiate the treaty with Great Britain in 1814. Later he served as Secretary of State. His animation when speaking and the warmth and charm of his personality led more than a hundred painters and sculptors to try to achieve fame by making portraits of Henry Clay. His suavity is illustrated in this exchange of notes after his second defeat for the Presidency.
DEAR SIR: Deprived as we are doomed to be, of the pleasure of having you at our head for a few ensuing years, will you allow us the minor pleasure of having ourselves at yours, for a brief period by accepting this Hat, and may it afford you, sir, what you have so zealously labored to secure to us - Protection.
Very respectfully your obedt. servant
Orlando Fish
To which Mr. Clay replied:
ASHLAND, 29th Jan., 1845
My DEAR SIR: I offer many and cordial thanks for the Hat which you have kindly presented to me and for the note which acompanied it. The Hat might have "protected" a better and wiser head than mine, but no head was ever covered by a better or more elegant hat.
Most truly, I am your friend and ob. servant.
H. CLAY
Oil on canvas, 26" x 20". By Matthew H. jouett
Owner: The Henry Clay Memorial Foundation, established by the will of Mrs. Thomas Bullock, "Ashland," Lexington
F. A. R. L. print
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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 through Present. CLAY, Henry, 1777-1852. Years of Service: 1806-1807; 1810-1811; 1831-1837; 1837-1842; 1849-1852. Party: Republican; Republican; Anti-Jackson; Whig; Whig, CLAY, Henry, (father of James Brown Clay), a Senator and a Representative from Kentucky; born in the district known as 'the Slashes,' Hanover County, Va., April 12, 1777; attended the public schools; studied law in Richmond, Va.; was admitted to the bar in 1797 and commenced practice in Lexington, Ky.; member, State house of representatives 1803; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Adair and served from November 19, 1806, to March 3, 1807, despite being younger than the constitutional age limit of thirty years; member, State house of representatives 1808-1809, and served as speaker in 1809; again elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Buckner Thruston and served from January 4, 1810, to March 3, 1811; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, to January 19, 1814, when he resigned; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses); appointed one of the commissioners to negotiate the treaty of peace with Great Britain in 1814; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1821); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses); elected to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses and served from March 3, 1823, to March 6, 1825, when he resigned; again served as Speaker of the House of Representatives (Eighteenth Congress); appointed Secretary of State by President John Quincy Adams 1825-1829; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate on November 10, 1831, to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1831; reelected in 1836 and served from November 10, 1831 until March 31, 1842, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Finance (Twenty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Democratic-Republican Party in 1824, of the National Republican Party in 1832, and of the Whig Party in 1844; again elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1849, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 29, 1852; funeral services held in the Chamber of the Senate; interment in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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CLAY, Henry, 1777-1852
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Senate Years of Service: 1806-1807; 1810-1811; 1831-1837; 1837-1842; 1849-1852
Party: Republican; Republican; Anti-Jackson; Whig; Whig
CLAY, Henry, (father of James Brown Clay), a Senator and a Representative from Kentucky; born in the district known as ’the Slashes,’ Hanover County, Va., April 12, 1777; attended the public schools; studied law in Richmond, Va.; was admitted to the bar in 1797 and commenced practice in Lexington, Ky.; member, State house of representatives 1803; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Adair and served from November 19, 1806, to March 3, 1807, despite being younger than the constitutional age limit of thirty years; member, State house of representatives 1808-1809, and served as speaker in 1809; again elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Buckner Thruston and served from January 4, 1810, to March 3, 1811; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, to January 19, 1814, when he resigned; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses); appointed one of the commissioners to negotiate the treaty of peace with Great Britain in 1814; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1821); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses); elected to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses and served from March 3, 1823, to March 6, 1825, when he resigned; again served as Speaker of the House of Representatives (Eighteenth Congress); appointed Secretary of State by President John Quincy Adams 1825-1829; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate on November 10, 1831, to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1831; reelected in 1836 and served from November 10, 1831 until March 31, 1842, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Finance (Twenty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Democratic-Republican Party in 1824, of the National Republican Party in 1832, and of the Whig Party in 1844; again elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1849, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 29, 1852; funeral services held in the Chamber of the Senate; interment in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Clay, Henry. The Papers of Henry Clay, 1797-1852. Edited by James Hopkins, Mary Hargreaves, Robert Seager II, Melba Porter Hay et al. 11 vols. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1959-1992; Remini, Robert V. Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union. New York: W. W. Norton Co., 1991.
Marriage: 1799
Children: Henrietta
Theodore Wythe (1802-)
Thomas Hart (1803-1871)
Susan Hart (1805-)
Ann Brown (1807-1835)
Lucretia Hart (1809-)
Henry (1811-1847)
Eliza (1815-1825)
Laura (1815-)
James Brown (1817-1864)
John Morrison (1821-1887)
Sources
1. Ante-Bellum Portraitures, p. 122
2. Whitley, Edna Talbott. Kentucky Ante-Bellum Portraiture, (The National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1956), pp. 120-121
(8) Name: Thomas Pindell HART
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Birth: 1796
Death: circa 1841 Age: 45
Father: Thomas HART IV (1772-1809)
Mother: Eleanor GROSH (1772-1856)
Misc. Notes
CAPTAIN THOMAS PINDELL HART [1]
(c- 1796-c. 1841/5)
When Thomas P. Hart bought the pew at Christ Church, Lexington, in 1814, as shown by a bill of sale preserved in the family, he was probably acting for his mother, Mrs. Eleanor Grosh Hart, who survived her husband as a widow for thirty-seven years. A nephew of Mrs. Henry Clay and of Mrs. Eliza Hart Pindell, he received his middle name in honor of the latter's husband, Dr. Richard Pindell of Hagerstown, Maryland, a surgeon in the Revolutionary War. After attending Transylvania, he was married in 1817 to Mary Ann Lewis Gardner, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and had two daughters, Ellen Sophia and Mary Louise (Mrs. William Turner of Virginia). In 1818 Mr. Hart served as a town trustee of Lexington. After his wife's death in 1822, Thomas P. Hart married Sarah D. Postlethwaite of Lexington, who had one daughter, Sarah F. Hart, who also married a Virginian, B. F. Turner. From 1838 to 1841 Captain Hart was proprietor of the Exchange Hotel in Louisville.
Ellen S. Hart, the oldest daughter, 1818- 1903, was married at Frankfort in 1845 to William Garrard Talbot, and four years later moved with him to "Mt. Lebanon" in Bourbon County, the home of his late maternal grandfather, Governor James Garrard. Here she hung her father's portrait, which later descended to her son, William Garrard Talbot II, and is now owned by his son of the same name. Four generations of the Hart family are buried in the old Episcopal Cemetery on Third Street in Lexington.
Oil on canvas, 25V2" X 22!'. ByMatthew H. Jouett (Menefee 172)
Bradley print and data from the late Mrs. William G. Talbot (Anna Thomas)
Owner: Mr. William Garrard Talbot, great- grandson, "Mt. Lebanon"
Spouses
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1: Sarah D. POSTLETHWAITE
Marriage: 1818
Children: Ellen S. (1818-1903)
Sources
1. Whitley, Edna Talbott. Kentucky Ante-Bellum Portraiture, (The National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1956), pp. 20-21