1801 Revolutionary War Family of Captain Reuben Hart Deeds Land | Rhode and Roswell, wife and son of Captain Reuben Hart deeds the family's land in Southington, Connecticut to Jonathan Case Jr. | Captain Reuben Hart served in the Continental Army during the revolutionary war. He was appointed by the General Assembly in 1777, ensign to the third company of the Alarm Lists, Fifteenth Regiment. He had a captain's commission, signed by Jonathan Trunbull, Governor, and countersigned by George Wyllys, Secretary of State, dated at Hartford, May 23d, 1778 | Printed / Written on Laid Paper, some spotted separation at fold | In addition to the parties, the document is signed by Roger Whittlesey, Justice of the Peace | Size: 12.50" H x 8" W.Notes: CAPTAIN REUBEN HART, Southington, Conn., the third son. of Deacon Thomas Hart, of the same town, and his wife, Anna (Stanley), born September 5th, 1729; baptized September 21st, 1729; married in December 21st, 1759, Rhoda, daughter of Moses Peck, of Kensington, and his wife, Sarah (Kellogg), born June 24th, 1735, at Kensington. She was sister of Sarah, wife of Timothy Clark, Esq., of West Street, Southington. Mr. Hart lived in Flanders, a locality of the town, on the corner, where the residence of Francis D. Lewis stood in 1869. It was a large double house, facing the west, with a lean-to in the rear, and was torn down about 1855, to give place to the present structure. He was appointed by the General Assembly in 1777, ensign to the third company of the Alarm Lists, Fifteenth Regiment. He had a captain's commission, signed by Jonathan Trunbull, Governor, and countersigned hy George Wyllys, Secretary of State, dated at Hartford, May 23d, 1778, and is now in possession of his grandson, Levi A. Hart, Esq., of Wilmington, N. C. He was a man of strong intellectual powers, and, for the limited advantages he enjoyed, had a highly cultivated mind. He died December 6th, 1788, aged 59 years. His widow, Mrs. Rhoda Hart, died of consumption, March 24th, 1803, in her 68th year.