The Rose - Isaac and Elizabeth Hart's ship

Isaac and Elizabeth Hart (11th Great-Grandparents) came to America on this ship, The Rose:

Witch Trials Documents

Warrant against Elizabeth Hart:


Susannah Sheldon vs Elizabeth Hart:


Susannah Sheldon vs Elizabeth Hart (back):

Elizabeth Hutchinson Hart - Transcriptions from Salem Witch Trials

(Ann Putnam, Jr. v. Elizabeth Hart )
The Deposistion of Ann putnam who testifieth and saith that I have often seen the apperishtion of gooddy heart among the witches butt I did not know who she was: nor she did me no hurt tell the 13th of may 1692: that she came to my father house parsonally and tould me who she was and asked me if she had ever hurt me: but ever sence that day she has hurt me most greviously severall times and urgeth me greviously to writ in hir book
(On reverse side of paper) Ann putnam ag't G. Hart
( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 75 )
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(Indictment v. Elizabeth Hart )
Province of the Massachusetts Bay In New England Essex ] Anno RR's & Reginae Gulielmi & Mariae Angliae quarto Anno'qe Dom'i 1692
The Jurors for our Sov'r lord and lady the King & Queen pr'sent That Elizabeth Hart Upon or about the 28th Day of May In this prest Yeare 1692 -- And Divers other Days & times as well before as after Certaine Detestable Arts Called Witchcraft & Sorceries wickedly mallitiously & felloniously hath practised & Exercised at & in the Towne of Salem in the County of Essex aforesaid Upon & Against One Mary Warren Single Woman -- By which wicked Arts the Said Mary Warren The Day & yeare aforesaid & Divers other Days & times as well before as after was & is Tortured aflicted Tormented Consumed Wasted & Pined Contrary to the peace of o'r Sov'r Lord & Lady the King & Queen their Crowne & Dignity & the laws in that Case made & provided.
Witness
Ann Putnam
Mercy Lewis
(On reverse side of paper)
Ignoramus
Robert Payne foreman
( Suffolk Court Records Case No. 2668 Page 149 )
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(Petition of Thomas Hart )
To the honoured Generall Court now Sitting in Boston
The humble Petition of Thomas Hart Inhabitant at Linn Sheweth that whereas Elizabeth Hart Mother to the petition'r. was taken into Custody in the Latter end of May Last, and ever Since comitted a prison'r in Boston Goal -- for witchcraft, Tho in all w'ch time nothing has Appeared against her whereby to render her deserving of Christian duty as becomes a child to parents, to make application for the Inlargment of his said Mother, being ancient and not able to undergo: the hardship that is Inflicted from lying in Miserie, and death rather to be Chosen then a life in her Circumstances, the father of the petition'r being ancient and decriped was wholly unable to -- attend in this Matter and the petition'r having lived from his childhood under the Same roofe w'th his said Mother he dare presume to affirme that he never saw nor knew any Evill nor Sinfull practice wherein there was any Show of Impiety nor witchcraft by her, and were it otherwise he would not for the world and all the Enjoyments thereof Nurrish or support any creature that. he knew ingaged in the Drugery of Satan it is well knoune to all the neighbourhood that the petition'rs Mother has Lived asober and Godly life alwise ready to discharge the part of A good Christian and never deserving of Afflictions from the hands of men for any thing of this nature May it humbly therefore please yo'r hon'rs. to take this Matter into yo'r Consideration in order to the Speedy Inlargment of this person So. much abused and the petition'r as in duty bound shall Ever pray
dated the 19th octob'r. 1692
*Thomas Hart
(On reverse of paper) The humble petition of Thomas Hart of Linn 1692
( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 Nov. 62 )

On Elizabeth Hart, from: The Salem witch trials: a day-by-day chronicle of a community under siege By Marilynne K. Roach

May 14, 1692 – Saturday
Salem Village
Young Ann Putnam had seen, but not been harmed by, the specter of Elizabeth Hart for some time. The real Goody Hart, wife of a Lynn farmer, visited the girl as Martha Corey and Willard had earlier, and sought to resolve the accusations with reason. Her results were equally unsuccessful, for her specter began to torment Ann. Today, Nathaniel Ingersoll and Thomas Putnam entered complaints against Elizabeth Hart and Thomas Farrar Sr. of Lynn; two suspects from Reading – Elizabeth Coleson and Bethia Certer Jr. (for a second time); and several from Salem Village – George Jacobs Jr. with his wife Rebecca, and her brother Daniel Andrews, plus Sarah Buckley and her daughter Mary Witheredge.

May 17, 1692 – Tuesday
Salem Village
Five suspects were in custody at Ingersoll’s when Marshal George Herrick arrived in Salem Village; Rebecca Jacobs, Sarah Buckley, Mary Witheredge, Elizabeth Hart, and Thomas Farrar Sr. As soon as Herrick locked them in the watchhouse, Constable John Putnam rode up with John Willard and the afflicted screamed in pain until Herrick pinioned Willard.

May 18, 1692 – Wednesday
Salem Village
With Rev. Samuel Parris and Ezekiel Cheever ready to take notes, John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin sat in Salem Village to hear the postponed cases. (Parris and Cheever had written the earlier transcriptions from their shorthand on full sheets of paper with generous margins. Today, by contrast, Parris’s final notes for Sarah Buckley crowded a card no longer than a man’s hand.)
Elizabeth Hart, wife of Lynn farmer Isaac Hart, was bold enough to have confronted Ann Putnam Jr. directly when the girl accused her of witchcraft, and outspoken enough that the Lynn Church had reprimanded her in 1655 for calling her fellow members fools and lackwits. She was examined and held for tormenting Mary Warren.


October 19, 1692 – Wednesday
Salem Town
Boston
Back in Boston, the General Court continued to receive petitions for the imprisoned. Not only was that good woman Elizabeth Hart in misery, wrote her son Thomas, but her husband was left “ancient and decrepit.”

Elizabeth Hutchinson Hart - A witch?

Elizabeth Hutchinson
b. 22 Feb 1621
d. 28 Nov 1700

Paternal 11x Great-Grandmother
Wife of Isaac Hart, Daughter of Thomas Hutchinson and Anne Browne


Elizabeth was accused of witchcraft and sent to prison in Boston on May 18, 1692 and held there until December. Elizabeth’s son, Thomas, petitioned the court for her release.

John Willard was transferred on May 18, 1692, to the Boston Jail, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. (Mittimus for Roger Toothaker, John Willard, Thomas Farrar, and Elizabeth Hart).

To: To the Keeper of Theire Majest's Goale in Boston

You are in theire Majest's names hereby required to take into your care and safe Custody the Bodys of Roger Toothaker of Bilrica: John Willard of Salem Village, husbandman Thomas farrar of Lyn husbandman, and Elizabeth Hart the wife of Isaac Hart of Lyn husbandman, who all stand charged with Sundry acts of Witchcraft, by them and Every one of them Committed, on the Bodys of Mary Walcot Abigail Williams Mary Lewis Ann Putnam and others of Salem Village or farmes, whom you are well to secure in order to theire tryall for the same. and untill they shall be delivered by due order of Law and hereof you are not to faile.


Dated Salem May 18'th 1692 *John Hathorne *Jonathan. Corwin by order of the Goven'r & Councill.16

Hart House - Ancestral Home of the Hart family

Hart House is located in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, and was built by Isaac Hart and his sons.

Isaac Hart
b. 1614, England
d. 10 Feb 1699, Massachusetts

Paternal 11x Great-Grandfather
Husband of Elizabeth Hutchinson, Son of Thomas Hart and Alice Waters.

John E. Dunn

John E. Dunn b. February 24 1798
4x Great-Grandfather

Son of John Michael Dunn and Nancy Jane Harris