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New London, and it is found widely scat-
tered through the eastern part of the
State, and some members of the family-
are found in New Hampshire.
(I) Richard Dart, of New London, the
founder of the family in this section, mar-
ried, in 1664, and the records give the,
name of his wife as Bethia. He died September
24, 1724, aged eighty-nine years.
(II) Daniel Dart, son of Richard Dart,
was born in New London, May 3, 1666.
He married, August 4, 1686, Elizabeth,
eldest daughter of William Douglas, and
removed to Bolton about 1716.
(III) Daniel (2) Dart, son of Daniel
(1) Dart, was born August 31, 1691, and
died February 19, 1791. On April 13,
1719, he married Jemima, daughter of
Abel Shaylor, who came of a prominent
Haddam family.
(IV) Jonathan Dart, son of Daniel (2)
Dart, was born January 10, 1733. He
married Lucy Whitney, of Canaan, June
16, 1755. He was admitted to the Bolton
church, May 28, 1758. They were the
parents of eleven children.
(V) Aaron Dart, seventh child and
sixth son of Jonathan Dart, was born
January 12, 1768, in Bolton, Connecticut.
He married Sarah Shaylor. He became
an extensive farmer in what is now the
town of West Hartford.
(VI) Edmund Dart, fifth child and
second son of Aaron Dart, was born
March 10, 1797, in Tolland, Connecticut,
where the family lived during his early
school days. He married Mary Ann Bartram
Withenbury, of Hartford, who was
of English descent, and a daughter of
Benjamin Withenbury. They lived in
Hartford and West Hartford, and became
prosperous farmers, Mr. Dart following
this calling as long as he lived.
He died March 8, 1861.
(VII) Joseph Dart, eighth child and
fourth son of Edmund Dart, was born
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August 5, 1839, in West Hartford, near
the old Wadsworth Tavern. He was educated
in the schools of West Hartford and
Hartford, and being a quiet, studious boy
was very thorough in his work. After
leaving school he went South and then
West, interesting himself in the steamboat
business. He made the last trip up
the Mississippi river before the blockade
of the river at the beginning of the War
of the Rebellion. He returned to Hart-
ford, and during the war engaged in the
picture frame business in Hartford. Sub-
sequent to that period, and up to 1874,
he was associated with his father-in-law
in the manufacture of cotton twines in
South Woodstock, Connecticut, and Oxford,
Massachusetts. Later on, Mr. Dart
removed to New York and engaged in the
cotton goods commission business. He
remained in this line for about nineteen
years, during a portion of that time sell-
ing goods on the road. He returned to
Hartford and was engaged in stock farm-
ing for some years, in connection with
which he made extensive improvements
on his real estate, and opened up many
streets on his own property, in the vicin-
ity of New Britain avenue.
Mr. Dart married, on September 18,
1862, Adelaide A. Warner, of South
Woodstock, Windham county, Connecti-
cut. They were members of the Baptist
church. Daniel W'arner, father of Mrs.
Dart, was born in Smithfield, Rhode
Island, and died in Hartford, eighteen or
twenty years ago, at the age of ninety-six
or ninety-eight years. He spent his early
life in Oxford, Massachusetts, and Woodstock,
Connecticut. While yet a young
man he began the manufacture of cotton
twine and warp. At one time he owned a
chain of mills numbering six or seven.
He had the distinction of making the first
ball of hand-wound twine in America.
(VIII) Fred W. Dart, second child