John Hart
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John Hart was a Delegate from New Jersey
New Jersey
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 to the Continental Congress
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 and a signer of the United States
United States
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 Declaration of Independence
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Sources disagree as to John Hart's year and place of birth. Some place his birth as early as 1707 in Stonington, Connecticut
Stonington, Connecticut
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; others insist that he was born in 1713, and after his parents had moved to Hopewell Township, New Jersey
Hopewell Township, New Jersey
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 in what was then Hunterdon County
Hunterdon County, New Jersey
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 (now part of Mercer County
Mercer County, New Jersey
As of the census of 2000, there were 350,761 people, 125,807 households, and 86,303 families residing in the county. The population density was 1,552 people per square mile . There were 133,280 housing units at an average density of 590 per square mile...

). He was the son of Captain Edward Hart, a farmer, public assessor, Justice of the Peace, and leader of a local militia unit during the French and Indian War
French and Indian War
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, and grandson of John Hart, a carpenter who came to Hopewell from Newtown, Long Island.
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