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JOHN CLOSSON, eldest son of John Closson, of Plumstead, and grandson of John and Sarah ( Furman ) Closson, of Warwick, was born December 6, 1764, and was reared on his father's farm in Plumstead township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania. He married, about 1789, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Sarah ( Mitchell) Updegrave, of Plumstead, whose ancestry back through the founders of Germantown, to Herman Op de Graeff, one of the formulators of the Men- nonite creed at Dordrecht, Germany, in 1632, is given in this volume, under the heading of Updegrave family John Closson was a farmer in Plumstead and Tini- cum townships, and died in January, 1815. His widow, Elizabeth ( Updegrave) Closson, survived him many years, dying at the home of her daughter, Sydonia Emerick, in Solebury township, Bucks county, 1837, and is said to have been buried at Buckingham Friends' burying-ground. She was born May 1, 1769.
Issue of John and Elizabeth ( Updegrave ) Closson:
Amos, b. Nov. 29, 1790, d. Oct. 26, 1865, at Carversville, Bucks co .; m. 1811, Mary Davison, of Plumstead, and had nine children, most of whom removed to Ill .; two of his grandsons were prominent business men of Chicago. A son, John, recently d. in New Britain, Bucks co., aged 81 years, and his youngest son, Isaiah, is still living at Carversville :
Sarah, m. Thomas Pickering;
Lavinia, m. Washington Van Dusen;
Sydonia, m. (first) Samuel Emerick, of Solebury, (second) Joseph Anderson, of Buck- ingham, Bucks co .;
Mary, m. Robert Roberts, and removed to Ill .;
Julia Ann, m. Peter Case, of near Doylestown, and has descendants of the name still residing there;
Susanna, m. May 4, 1833, Phineas Hellyer, of Buckingham, and d. the following year; Elizabeth, m. - - Hoover;
Levi, m. Mary Cox, and lived for some years near Doylestown, removing later to Chicago, where he and his sons were prominent business men ;
JOHN, b. 1797, d. 1842; m. Mary Loucks.
JOHN CLOSSON, fourth of the name in succession, and of the seventh generation from Captain Gerrebrandt Claessen, of New Amsterdam, was born in Plumstead township, Bucks county, 1797; married Mary, daughter of John and Barbara ( Libhardt ) Loucks, and granddaughter of Henry and Barbara (Heaney ) Loucks, of Rockhill, Bucks county, later of Windsor township, York county, Pennsylvania.
Heinrich Loucks, grandfather of Mary (Loucks) Closson, came from Germany in the ship, "Minerva," which arrived at Philadelphia from Rotterdam, November 9, 1767. He settled in Rockhill township, Bucks county, and in 1775 married Barbara, daughter of John and Catharine (Worman) Heaney; in 1777 he pur-
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chased a farm of sixty acres in Haycock township, on which he resided with his iamily until 1795, when they removed to Windsor township, York county, Penn- sylvania, where Henry Loucks died April, 1806, his wife, Barbara, having died about 1800.
John Heaney, father of Barbara (Heaney) Loucks, was son of John Heaney, or Hoenig, one of the earliest German settlers on the Tohickon, in Rockhill town- ship, where he owned and operated a mill, to which his son, John, succeeded. The latter was later a merchant in Bedminster township, and one of the most promi- nent men of that locality. He was many years a Justice and was a member of Provincial Assembly 1774-75. He died in 1787, leaving a large family of chil- dren. His wife was Catharine, daughter of John Worman, who came from Ger- many in the ship, "Mary," June 28, 1735, and settled in Rockhill township, where he was one of the trustees of Tohickon Lutheran Church in 1753. He later re- moved to Bedminster township, and was a prominent man and large landholder there, and in Tinicum township; dying in the latter township, near the present site of Wormansville, in 1768.
Henry and Barbara (Heaney) Loucks were the parents of at least five children, as follows :
John Loucks, b. Aug. 22. 1776, in Bucks co., d. near Marietta, Lancaster co .: m. Barbara Libhardt;
Henry Loucks, b. April 23, 1778, removed to York co., later to Hempfield township, Lancaster co., near Marietta ;
Daniel Loucks, b. Jan., 1780, d. Windsor township, York co., 1829; Catharine Loucks, b. Haycock, Bucks co., May 4, 1783; m. Abraham Moser, of York co .; Jacob Loucks, b. Haycock, Bucks co., Dec., 1784, d. Marietta, Lancaster co., Pa .; m. Catharine, dau. of John Alter, of Hempfield township, Lancaster co .; with his brother, Henry Loucks, was an extensive wagon manufacturer at Marietta.
Henry Libhardt, grandfather of Barbara (Libhardt) Loucks, and great-grand- father of Mary (Loucks) Closson, was a native of Germany, and an early settler in Hellam township, York county, and died there at an advanced age in 1773. He owned and operated a mill in Hellam township for several years.
His eldest son, Henry Libhardt, married Barbara, daughter of Henry Smith, who in 1736 took up a tract of land on the west side of Susquehanna river, then in Lancaster county. later Hellam township, York county, and lived there until his death in 1771. Henry Libhardt, Jr., lived in Windsor township, York county, until 1773. when he purchased the Smith homestead in Hellam township, and re- sided thereon until his death in 1796. He was a Justice of the Peace for some years after the Revolutionary War. His daughter, Barbara Libhart, who be- came the wife of John Loucks, was nineteen years of age at the death of her father in 1796, and married John Loucks soon after that date.
MARY LOUCKS, daughter of John and Barbara (Libhart ) Loucks, born in 1799, married John Closson, about year 1819, and they settled in the city of Philadel- phia, where John Closson died in 1842, and his widow, Mary Loucks, in 1879. Both are buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Issue of John and Mary (Loucks) Closson:
John, d. young;
Josiah, m. Elizabeth Smith and resided in Phila .; issue :
Ethelinda, wife of John Morton, of Phila .;
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John Closson, dec .; Thomas Sloan Closson, of Phila.
Barbara, m. Joseph Cook ; Mary, living in Phila., unm .; Eliza, m. Charles W. Roberts;
JAMES HARWOOD CLOSSON, b. Phila., Sept. 23, 1826, d. at City Point, Va., Nov. 23, 1864; m. Josephine Banes, b. at Matanzas, Cuba, June 24, 1828, d. Phila., July 31, 1862.
JAMES HARWOOD CLOSSON was commissioned November 19, 1861, First Lieu- tenant of Company G, Ninety-first Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, then being recruited at Philadelphia, for three years service in the Civil War, and with that regiment went into service, December 4, 1861. After a few months service at Alexandria, the regiment participated in the Peninsular campaign and from that time was in the forefront until the close of the war, occupying advanced positions at the battle of Fredericksburg, where the Major of the regiment was killed; at Chancellorsville; in the Maryland campaign ; and by a forced march reach- ed Gettysburg in time to take an active part in that memorable battle, charging up Little Round Top as the Confederates charged up the opposite side, and during the whole battle being exposed to the hottest of the enemy's fire. During the fall of 1863 it was engaged in the valley of Virginia, and in the advance on Richmond was "Constantly in the front, and actively employed." It passed through the fear- ful carnage at Cold Harbor and was again in the front at Petersburg. On March 1, 1864, Lieutenant Closson was promoted to Captain of Company H, same regi- ment. In the advance to Hatcher's Run, October 28, 1864, he was mortally wounded, and died at City Point, Virginia, November 23, 1864, from secondary hemorrhage following the amputation of his limb,
Issue of Captain James H. and Josephine (Banes) Closson:
Edward M., d. unm .; Franklin Banes, d. unm .; Edward Foster, d. unm .; Robert Dickinson, d. unm .; Alice Josephine;
DR. JAMES HARWOOD CLOSSON, b. Nov. 27, 1861; m. Mary Elizabeth Bell, of Phila .; of whom presently.
Josephine Banes, who became wife of James H. Closson, was a daughter of Joseph Banes, by his wife, Hannah Foster, and through her mother was a descend- ant of several early Colonial families of Philadelphia, among them that of Buzby, the first American progenitor, of which John Buzby brought a certificate to Phila- delphia Friends' Meeting, dated 2mo. 4, 1682.
On the paternal side Josephine (Banes) Closson descended from one of the oldest families of Lancashire, England, representatives of which had found homes in Pennsylvania at different periods and were among the first purchasers of land of William Penn, in his Province of Pennsylvania. Her lineal ancestor, Matthew Baines, of Wyersdale, Lancashire, married at Lancaster Monthly Meeting, Iomo. 22, 1672, Margaret, daughter of William Hatton, of Bradley, Lancashire, and several children were born to them in Lancashire. In the autumn of 1686 William and Margaret Baines, and at least two of their children, Eleanor, born October 22, 1677, and William, born July 14, 1681, embarked for America, but both par- ents died on the voyage, and the children on their arrival at Chester were taken
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in charge by Friends, of Chester county. Matthew Baines, as appears from a letter, written by Phineas Pemberton, to John Walker, in England, dated "Penn- silvania from ye ffalls of Dellaware in ye County of Buckes, the 13th day of ye Ist Mo. 1688," carried a letter from Henry Coward, of Lancashire, to James Harri- son, father-in-law of Phineas Pemberton, and one of William Penn's confidential friends and advisers in Pennsylvania; and that when about to die he made the request that James Harrison should have the care and tuition of his children. That part of Pemberton's letter pertaining to the Baines children is as follows : "My very deare love to Hen : Coward & his wife. I Rd. his letter to father Con- cerneing Mat : Banes but have not time now to write. He died att sea & desired father in Law might have the tuition of his Children, but father was dead before luis children came in ; however I went to see after them; they Enclined to stay in Chester County where they landed to wch I was willing, P'vided ffriends would see after them Els if they would not I told ffriends I would. Ye Boy is put out to one Joseph Stidman who is said to be a very honest man. Ye girle is with John Simpcocke & hath 40 or 50 s. wages per annum. The boy is to be w'th sd Stid- man untill he comes to ye age of 20 yeares, wch is ye customary way of putting forth orphans in these P'ts. My deare love to friends at Lancaster, remember mee if thou hast opportunity to Judith Hunter and to old Tho. Rawlinson if living." The Baines orphans appear to have had some small estate as "at an Orphans' Court held att Chester ye 6th day of ye Ist. Moneth, 1687." It is "Ordered that ffrancis Little give in Security to this Court to pay vnto John Sim- cocke and Thomas Brassie, as Trustees to William and Elin Baines for ye sum of twenty Eight Shillings." Francis Little was several times cited by the court to pay over the funds in his hands belonging to William and Eleanor Baines, and the matter was not concluded until October, 1689, "att what time he made his appear- ance and produced a receipt in full satisfaction."
Eleanor Baines married Thomas Duer, of Bucks county, at Falls Meeting, Sep- tember 26, 1694, and they were the ancestors of a numerous and prominent family of that county. In an old Bible of the Duer family is found the record of the birth of the first three children of William Baines, the brother of Eleanor, who after the completion of his apprenticeship with Joseph Stedman and the death of the latter, married and settled in Southampton township, Bucks county, near the line of Warminster, where he died in 1729. The maiden name of his wife, Eliza- beth, has not been ascertained. They were the parents of nine children: Joseph, Mathew, Thomas, William, James, Elizabeth, Timothy, Jacob and Elinor, all of whom married except Elinor, and they have left numerous descendants in Bucks county and elsewhere ; several of them later becoming prominently identified with the business and professional life of Philadelphia. Four of the sons, Mathew, William, Timothy and Jacob, settled in Buckingham and Solebury townships, Bucks county, and most of their descendants spelled the name Beans. Timothy removed late in life to Fairfax, Virginia, while Joseph, Thomas and James re- mained in the township of their nativity and adjoining parts of Philadelphia county.
Joseph Banes, eldest son of William and Elizabeth Baines, of Southampton, born September 24, 1708, was the ancestor of Mrs. Josephine Closson. He mar- ried May 17, 1733, at First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Esther Evans, of Welsh ancestry, who was baptized at Pennypack Baptist Church, Philadelphia
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county, at the age of twelve years. Joseph likewise became a member of that church by baptism, August 2, 1740, and they were later members of Southampton Baptist Church. He was a farmer and owned one hundred and sixty acres of land in Southampton, which descended to his sons and grandsons.
Joseph and Esther (Evans) Banes, of Southampton, had issue, as follows : John, of Southampton, married Elizabeth (Shaw) Randall, and had children : John, James and Esther. Mathew, of whom presently. James, died in Southamp- ton in 1815, had three sons: Dr. Artilerius Valerius, a physician of Philadelphia county, later of Licking county, Ohio; Leman, a prominent Bucks county official ; and Dr. Josiah D. Banes, a prominent physician of Byberry, Philadelphia county. Seth, married his cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Sands ) Banes, and lived and died in Southampton.
Mathew Banes, son of Joseph and Esther (Evans) Banes, was born in Southampton, 1735, died there, December 1, 1788. He was a member of Captain Folwell's company of Southampton Associators, 1775-6. His wife, Sarah, born in 1738, survived him many years, dying September 27, 1823, and both are buried at Southampton Baptist Church. They had three sons and two daughters, viz. : Joseph Banes, "Preceptor" of Lower Dublin township, Philadelphia, one of the executors of his father's will; Evan Banes, M. D., co-executor with Joseph of their father's will in 1788, but "removed out of the State" about 1790; Enphemia, married Joseph Leedom; Letitia, married George Foster; Ervin, of whom pres- ently.
Ervin Banes, grandfather of Mrs. Josephine Closson, was a minor at the death of his father in 1788. He married Hannah, daughter of Thomas Dickinson, of an old Colonial family of Pennsylvania, and had the following children: Evan Banes, married Martha Woodington, and died in Bensalem township, Bucks county, 1845 ; Ann Banes ; Euphemia Banes ; Charles Banes, of Bristol, Pennsyl- vania, who married Ann Phillips; Susan, married Hazel Woodington; Joseph Banes, father of Mrs. Josephine Closson, who married Hannah Foster.
Hannah Foster, wife of Joseph Banes, and mother of Josephine (Banes) Closson, was a daughter of Miles Foster, born in Lower Dublin township, Phila- delphia county, by his wife, Hannah Buzby, and granddaughter of William Foster, of Lower Dublin, by his wife, Mary, a descendant of Miles Strickland, a Colonial merchant of Philadelphia, who died there in 1751. He and his son, Thomas, had produced certificates at Abington Meeting, 1718, from Dublin, Ireland.
From the records of Burlington (New Jersey) Monthly Meeting of Friends and other sources we learn that William and Josiah Foster, brothers, and sons of Josiah Foster, of Rhode Island, came to New Jersey and settled in Mansfield township, Burlington county, 1684. They were members of Burlington Monthly Meeting, and the children of William and Mary Foster, as recorded on the records of that meeting, were:
Hannah Foster, b. 6mo. 31, 1684;
Mary Foster, b. 6mo. 10, 1687; m. 1709, George Matlack; William Foster, b. Iomo. 26, 1689; m. 1712, Experience Whilden: George Foster, b. 12mo. 10, 1691;
Josiah Foster, b. IImo. 21, 1693; Joseph Foster, b. 6mo. 27, 1696;
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Charity Foster, b. 4mo. 6, 1700;
THOMAS FOSTER, b. 9mo. 15, 1793; in. Lucy DeLaval ;
Rebecca Foster, b. 10mo. 20, 1796; m. 1726, Thomas Haines.
THOMAS FOSTER, youngest son of William and Mary Foster, of Mansfield, mar- ried Lucy DeLaval, and had issue :
WILLIAM FOSTER, m. Mary Strickland; Mary Foster, m. Daniel Street; Thomas Foster, m. Mary Jehu Foster, m. Elizabeth Vansant.
WILLIAM and Mary (Strickland ) Foster were members of Byberry Friends' Meeting, settling for a while in Oxford township, Philadelphia county, and later located in the township of Lower Dublin, same county, a quarter of a mile south of the Lower Dublin Academy, where their children were born. Mary (Strick- land) Foster died in 1825, at the age of eighty-eight years.
Issue of William and Mary (Strickland ) Foster:
Strickland Foster, m. (first) Letitia Banes, (second) Mary Johnson ;
William Foster, m. Anna Haines ;
Josiah Foster, bur. at Byberry;
Thomas Foster, m. Mary
Miles Foster, m. June 6, 1799, Hannah Buzby, and settled on the old homestead, where their daughter, Hannah ( Foster) Baines was born;
Joseph Foster, lived with his brother, Miles, on the homestead;
Mary Foster, m. Joseph Knight;
George Foster, m. Mary Subusa, lived near Middletown Meeting.
The family of Strickland, or Stirkland, as it was anciently written, is probably of Saxon origin, being settled at or before the Norman conquest at Strickland or Stirkland, parish of Moreland, Westmoreland, where it continued for several generations.
William de Stirkland, of this family, having married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Ralph D'Aincourt, of Sizergh, in Cumberland, Knight, who eventually became the heiress of her brother, Ralph, who died without issue, they removed to Sizergh, where their descendants have continued to reside to the present time, as appears from authentic documents in Burns' "History of Westmoreland and Cumberland."
The first of the name of Strickland, or Stirkland, on record was Walter de Stirkland, living in the reign of King John, whose son and heir, Adam, in the seventh year of that reign was one of the hostages for the future good conduct of Roger Fitz-Reinfred, who had sided with the rebellious barons. The family must have been of great consequence in ancient times, as we find no less than five places of the same name in Westmoreland, Strickland Hall, Strickland-Kettle, Strickland magna, Strickland parva, and Strickland-Rogers. Gough in his edition of "Camden's Brittania," says, "Strickland gave name to a family of Ancient renown;" and Fuller, in his "Worthies," calls it "a right worshipful family."
William Strickland, who was consecrated Bishop of Carlisle in 1400, at his own expense, cut a canal from the town of Penrith to the river Petterell for the navi- gation of boats to the Irish sea. He died in 1419.
A branch of the Sizergh or of the Westmoreland family settled at Boynton, Yorkshire, where they resided as early as the reign of Edward IV. In the
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Sizergh papers it is stated that Sir William Strickland, of Boynton, on the Wolds, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Walter Strickland, of Sizergh, Knight, by his wife, Catharine, daughter of Sir Ralph Neville, of Thornton Briggs, Knight ; and the parish records of Boynton show that William Strickland died in 1592, and his widow, Elizabeth, in 1597.
This William Strickland, or Strykeland, was probably son of William Strick- land, the first of this branch of whom we have any record. He was one of those who were actuated by the chivalric spirit of discovery, in the reigns of Henry VII. and Henry VIII., and became the companion of Sebastian Cabot in his voyages to the coast of America. King Edward VI., in the fourth year of his reign (1550), granted a pension to Sebastian Cabot, then far advanced in years, and April 20, 1550, granted to Cabot's associate, "William Strykeland of Bynton on the Wolds," as shown by the records of the Heralds Office and by the original grant now in possession of the family, a coat-of-arms and crest. In this grant William Strykeland assumed, as a record of his adventures, the turkey cock for his crest ; a bird at about that period first introduced to the knowledge of Europe. It is not known whom William Strykeland married or when he died, the early records of the family having been almost entirely lost during the Civil War in the reign of Charles I. A portrait, however, of this distinguished gentleman, in naval uniform of the time, with the sea and a vessel in the background, is still extant at the family seat at Boynton. He was succeeded by Sir William Strickland, before mentioned, who married Elizabeth, daughter of his probable kinsman, Sir Walter Strickland, of Sizergh, Cumberland, by his wife, Catharine, daughter of Sir Ralph Neville, of Thornton Briggs, Yorkshire, Knight. Sir William and Elizabeth had a son, Walter, and a daughter, Elizabeth, who married, December 23, 1596, George Dakns, of Ives, Buckingham, Esq. Sir William Strickland was returned a member for Scarborough, 1558-62-71, and died 1592. His wife died 1597, and both are buried with many others of the family at about this time in the Church of Wintringham, near Matton.
Walter Strickland, son of Sir William and Elizabeth, married Frances, daugh- ter of Peter Wentworth, of Lilingston-Dayrell, Bucks, Esq., by whom he had issue :
WILLIAM STRICKLAND, who succeeded him;
Walter Strickland, b. 1600; studied law and was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn; was a person of great influence during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, and later of Richard Cromwell; on Oliver being declared Protector, Dec. 16, 1653, was made one of fourteen members of Privy Council; was one of those who attended the installa- tion of Oliver, June 11, 1657; named as one of the visitors to university founded at Durham, as "our right trusty and right well beloved Walter Strickland, member of council, etc .; " was named, Jan. 20, 1656, as one of the "House of Peers," and there- after known as "Lord Walter Strickland;" sent, in Sept., 1642, as Ambassador to the States General of the United Provinces at The Hague, and again in 1651; after the restoration received full pardon and retired to Flamborough, Yorkshire, where he d. and was bur. in 1671; m. Anna, dau, and sole heiress of the famous Col. Sir Charles Morgan, Governor of Bergh-op-Zoom, in Brabant, but is said to have left no issue; Anne Strickland, b. and d. 1591;
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Keziah Strickland, m. Sept. 30, 1628, Robert Dompton, of Driffield;
Ursula, m. Oct. 26, 1630, Robert Berwick, of York;
Milcha, m. June 15, 1631, Thomas Middleton, of Belsay, Northumberland, Esquire.
Walter Strickland, father, died at Boynton and was buried at Wintringham, February 29, 1636; Frances, his wife, buried there April 27, 1636.
William Strickland, Esq., elder son of Walter and Frances, had the honor of
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knighthood, and was created a Baronet, July 30, 1641; married (first) 1622, Margaret, daughter of Sir Richard Cholmondeley, Bart., of Whitley. She died 1624. Married (second) Lady Frances Finch, eldest daughter of Thomas, Earl of Winchelsea ; he was prominent under the Protectorate; appointed, May, 1657, a visitor to University at Durham; June 26, same year, attended in the procession the inauguration of Cromwell, as one of his Privy Council, when he was repre- sentative in Parliament of East Riding of Yorkshire, so elected in first Parliament. Summoned as Lord Strickland to House of Peers, January, 1659; died September 12, 1673, and his wife, Lady Frances, December 17, 1663, both buried at Boynton, where monuments to their memory were erected by their eldest son. Sir Thomas Strickland.
Sir Thomas Strickland married, 1659, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Francis Pile, of Compton-Beauchamp, Berkshire, Bart., and had issue: Sir William, his successor, born March 23, 1664-5, married August 23, 1684, Eliza- betli, second daughter of William Palmes, of Old Malton, Esq .; Walter, born October 25, 1667, married a daughter of Pierson, of Newthorpe, and had issue; Thomas, born May 1, 1669, living in 1738; Frances, born June 19, 1670; Charles, born October 27, 1672, an officer in the navy, commanded "the Southampton" at taking of Vigo, 1703, died an Admiral, 1724; Nathaniel, died in infancy. Sir Thomas was member of Parliament for Heden and Beverly, representing latter in last Parliament, begun 1658, dissolved April 22, 1659. He died November 20, 1684, and Lady Strickland, June 13, 1674, both buried at Church at Boynton.
Sir William Strickland, fourth Baronet, had William, his successor, born 1686; Thomas, born August 28, 1687; Walter, born May 31, 1690; Charles, an officer in the army, member of Parliament, etc., killed in a duel at York, 1706. Sir William died 1724, and his widow in 1740, at Boynton.
JOHN BUZBY, weaver of Milton, parish of Shipton, "being about to transport himself across the seas," obtained a certificate from the Friends' Meeting at Mil- ton, which was deposited at Philadelphia Meeting. He and his wife, Marie, evi- dently resided in or near Oxford township, Philadelphia county, and were mem- bers of Oxford Meeting, held for a time at the house of John Hart, Byberry, as two of his daughters were married "at a Meeting held at the house of John Hart."
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