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2002. Benjamin, born October 7th, 1779; died single in 1830, and was buried on Litchfield Hill. TITUS HART, Colebrook, Conn., third son of Timothy Hart, of Wallingford, and his wife, Phebe (Fenn), born July 4th, 1757, at Wallingford. He married there, December 21st, 1780, Lucy Johnson, of Litchfield, Conn., who bore to him eight children, when she died September 22d, 1803, aged 38 years, and second he married January 8th, 1804, Elizabeth, daughter of Elijah Andrews, of Windsor and Winchester, and his wife, Mary (Roberts). He entered the army of the revolution when he was sixteen years old, and remained to its close. After the war and soon after his marriage he removed to Litchfield, and from thence to the south part of Colebrook about 1794, on the same farm on which he died. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade, but followed farming mostly. While he lived his descendants were accus- tomed to hold family gatherings with him annually on thanksgiving day, sometimes to the number of 200 and over—children, grand children, great- grandchildren, and friends. He died July 27th, 1844, aged 87 years and 23 days. His widow died July 31st, 1844—only four days later—aged 67 years. CHILDREN BY HIS FIRST WIFE, BEING THE SEVENTH GENERATION.
2010. Truman, born November 23d, 1785, at Litchfield; married, April, 1812, Polly Spencer. CHILDREN BY HIS SECOND WIFE.
Phebe, born March 3d, 1805; died March 7th, 1807.
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