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Biographical Sketches. Hannibal. Hart. 143
loue of our cousin Nathaniel Newhall and Rest his now wife."
.... And then follow the proper terms of conveyance for the
purpose shadowed forth in this excursive preamble. The instrument
bears date March 31, 1687.
The Nathaniel Newhall to whom the conveyance was made
removed to Boston, a few years after, probably because his business
as ship-carpenter was better there, and there he died, in
173 1. His grave-stone may yet be seen in Copp's Hill burying
ground. He was born in 1658, and was a grandson of Anthony
Newhall, brother of Thomas, from whom most of the present
Newhalls of Lynn descended.
Mr. Handford was a haberdasher from London. See Annals,
1635 and 1682.
Hannibal—sexton of the Old Tunnel — a pious
man — once a slave. See Annals, 1780.
and worthy
Hart, Samuel. Some uncertainty exists as to the precise
time when this individual -first appeared in Lynn ; but he probably
came in or about 1643, and was employed at the iron works.
The Harts became a noted family. Among the descendants of
this sturdy settler not elsewhere spoken of, was Captain Ralph
Hart, for many years a prominent and influential resident of
Boston. He was born in Lynn, June 12, 1699, and was, we think,
a grandson, though he is in some genealogical accounts set down
as a great-grandson, of Samuel. In 1742 he was commissioned
by Governor Shirley as " Lieutenant of the foot company of the
Town of Boston," and in 1754, as Captain of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery. He married Mary Hudson of Lynn, Nov.
27, 1722, and she died August 2, 1733, aged 34. His second
wife, Lois, died November 5, 1751, aged 46. Their grave-stones
are still to be seen in Copp's Hill burying ground, in Boston,
bearing little or no mark of injury by the ravages of the
soldiers during their occupation of the town.
British
A daughter of his
married Joshua Bowles, who belonged to a highly conne6led
family, and was brother-in-law of Benjamin Lynde, Chief Justice
of the Province. Their son, Captain Ralph Hart Bowles, served
faithfully during the whole of the Revolution ; and after the war
was over, settled on the outskirt of civilization near the Maine