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• Name: McNeely
• Created: 04 Apr 2020

Elinor married John McNeely, II (Jr.) about 1758 in Deep Run Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA. John (son of Jonathan (John) McNeely, I (Sr.) and Unknown) was born in 1724 in , Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA; died in , Rowan County, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John McNeely, III was born in 1759 in Deep Run Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 15 Oct 1843 in , Rowan County, North Carolina, USA.
2. Elizabeth (Betsy) McNeely was born in abt. 1760 in Deep Run Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 8 Feb 1801 in , Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA.
3. James McNeely was born in 1761 in , , North Carolina, USA; died in abt. 1827.
4. Ellinor McNeely was born about 1767.
5. Alexander McNeely was born on 20 Apr 1769; died on 7 Mar 1846 in , Moutrie County, Illinois, USA.
6. Unknown McNeely was born in abt. 1772 in , Rowan County, North Carolina, USA; died in unknown.
7. Samuel McNeely was born on 2 Nov 1773 in , Rowan County, North Carolina, USA; died on 29 May 1843 in , Rowan County, North Carolina, USA.

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• familyserch.org ID: L7J4-Q82
• Created: 24 Jul 2022

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"COLONIAL FAMILIES of the USA, 1607-1775"; found on ancestry.com

Samuel Hart, the emigrant ancestor of the Hart family, was born 1690. He came to America with his wife and family, from Belfast, in the province of Ulster, Ireland, about the year 1735. He came to Buck County, Pennsylvania the settling ground of a large number of the Scotch-Irish and on 9th March, 1737, obtained a warrant of survey for 100 acres of land in Plumstead Township and settled thereon; he died 1st April 1750, leaving his plantation to his two eldest sons, James and William.
He is buried in Deep Run Cemetery, Bedminster Township, where his grave may be seen to this day. His wife’s name was Elizabeth. She died shortly after her husband in April 1750. The respective wills of Samuel and Elizabeth Hart are on file in the courthouse at Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

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In Will Abstracts (p.201): Samuel Hart, (b 1690 - d 1750) of Plumstead, Yeoman. March 28, 1750. Proved April 20, 1750. Wife: Elizabeth. Executors: John Gaddis and James Hart. Sons James (eldest), William, Joseph, John, Samuel.Daughters: Mary McGlaughin, Jane Mathers, Nellie and Elizabeth Hart. Witnesses: Charles Williams, William Logan.Comments: This appears to be the same Samuel Hart who was an executor for Joseph McCreary. John Gaddis was an executor for both wills/estates; and William Hart is also mentioned in both (I think it fairly safe to assume they are the same William).

Among the thousands of Ulster Scots who migrated to Pennsylvania in the first half of the eighteenth century were those who formed two distinct settlements within the present limits of Bucks county, one on the banks of the Neshaminy in Warwick, Warrington and New Britain, and the other on the banks of the Tohickon in Plumstead, Tinicum and adjacent townships.

In the latter settlements were the Stewarts, Harts, Means, McGlaughlins, Pattersons, Armstrongs, Erwins, Davies and a host of others, more or less united by ties, consanguinity, and common interest, whose names are found on the earliest lists of military companies organized for the defense of the frontiers against their hereditary enemies, the French and their savage allies.

Among these early settlers on the Plumstead side of the Tohickon about 1735, was Samuel Hart and his family, consisting of wife and nine children, the eldest of whom, James, was born in the year 1717, and the second son William was probably three or more years younger.

Samuel Hart obtained a warrant of survey for 100 acres of land on March 9, 1737, and settled thereon. Ten years later in 1747 when the first clouds of war appeared on the horizon, companies were formed in the several townships for the defense oof the frontiers. The Plumstead company had for its captain the veteran Charles Stewart, lieutenant, James Hart, and ensign, William Hart, both of the latter being ancestors of the subjects of this sketch through the marriage of a grandson of the latter with a granddaughter of the former many years later.

Across the Tohickon in Tinicum the captain of the company was James McGlaughlin, who had married Mary, the eldest sister of the Hart brothers, and the lieutenant was James Davies, whose son William was a brother-in-law to them, all three having married daughters of William Means or Main, a neighbor and compatriot. Samuel Hart, the elder, died in April, 1750, devising his plantation to his sons James and William. His other children than the three above mentioned were: Joseph, John, Jean, who married Samuel Mathers and removed to North Carolina, Elinor, Samuel and Elizabeth.
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Samuel Hart, b. ca 1690 in Ireland. They were Scotch Irish from the region of Ulster. They settled in Plumstead Twp., Bucks County, Penn., and then moved south in the county to where Hartsville is now situated (1920). These Harts were Presbyterians.

Samuel married Elizabeth in 1723 in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA. Elizabeth was born in 1694 in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 3 Apr 1750 in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• familyserch.org ID: 99DP-SJT
• Name: Hart
• Created: 24 Jul 2022

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We do not know Elizabeth's maiden name, according to the Hart book

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"The will of Elizabeth Hart (what was her maiden name, we do not know), dated April 3 1750 ... "

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In Will Abstracts, Book 2, Bucks Co, PA 1739-1759, we find (page 98):Joseph McCreary, of Plumstead Twp., Yeoman. August 31, 1747. Proved January 22, 1747/8. Wife Isabella.Daughters: Ann, Jennett, and Elizabeth McCreary. Executors: Samuel Hart, Wm. Means and John Gaddis.Witnesses: Wm. Hart, Joseph Porter, Luke Severns.Comment: I find it intriguing that Joseph McCreary of Philadelphia Co had a daughter Ann (unmarried in 1747) at the time of his will and William Hart as a witness.