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The De Hart family
The De Hart Family was one of the inter-related mercantile, landowning and legal families that dominated the politics of the Newark/ Elizabeth area in New Jersey from the time of the American Revolution to the Civil War. Many of their members served on the State's Supreme Judicial Court, as mayors, and as legislators in Trenton and Washington. This group of families included the Cranes (for whom Cranford, New Jersey- originally Crane's Ford, is named; Stephen Crane tha author was from this family), the Chetwoods ( Rep.William Chetwood) the Williamsons (Gov.Isaac Halstead Williamson) the Ogdens (Gov. & US Sen. Aaron Ogden of Gibbons v. Ogden fame), the Daytons (House Speaker Jonathan Dayton, for whom Dayton, Ohio is named and Sen. William L. Dayton) and the Halsteads (Rep. William Halstead and Lucinetta Halstead Kean, mother of US Senators John Kean and Hamilton Fish Kean a political dynasty still extant).

New York Origins of the family
Balthasar De Hart,(1633-1671) had emigrated from the town of Buren in Gelderland, a province of the Netherlands. The family were originally Huguenots, French Protestant refugees. He was a successful merchant in New York City, and married Margaret Stuyvesant, sister of Governor-General Peter Stuyvesant. In 1666, He was granted a 2000 acre tract of land in present day Rockland County in letters patent from the Colonial Governor. After his death, this land was sold by his heirs.

Daniel De Hart his son His wife Catalyn Van Pelt inherited part of the estate of her father, Hon. John Teunison Van Pelt at Teunison's Neck on Staten Island, (known variously as Jan Tunissen'sValley, Tunissen's Creek, Black Poynt, Tunissen's Neck) The house remained in the family for more than two hundred years. Known as the De Hart House, it was described in Rosalie Fellow's work "Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York" and their descendants remained a prominent family there. Henry De Hart represented Staten Island in the New York State Assembly during the 1850s, and his son Theodore (1830-1913) was a prominent oyster planter whose house, the Theodore H. & Elizabeth J. De Hart House, is a historic landmark  in Tottenville. Capt. Samuel De Hart (d.1946) developed a large amount of the family property, and built the first movie theater on the island, The Regent Theatre at Port Richmond.

The Daniel De Hart house at Mariners Harbor, Staten Island is no longer standing; it is now the site of the Port Richmond Yacht Club. Contents of the house are in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. A nearby street is called De Hart Avenue.

Judge Balthasar De Hart (ca. 1865-1830) who clerked for Alexander Hamilton at his private law practice in New York,established himself as the first lawyer in Binghampton, New York who held a number of local offices there.

lawyer Chas. De Hart Brower

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The De Hart House itself: antiques: ANTIQUES AND AUCTIONS; Recent Research Reveals Colors Used On the Walls of Colonial Houses

August 22, 1943, Sunday Page X11, ADMIRERS of such varied antiques as tall clocks and early pianos will find interesting examples just installed in the Museum of the City of New York. One of the two Colonial timepieces displayed is still keeping accurate time in spite of being almost two centuries old. as the fortunate finding by Mr. Graham of a piece of paneling, painted a similar color, in the Daniel de Hart House at Mariner's Harbor, Staten Island.

Drake-DeHart House

New Jersey Branch
Daniel De Hart (1669-1753) was a landowner in New Jersey, one of the Elizabethtown Associates. His land on the coast, known as DeHart's Point, was the sight of several skirmishes during the Revolution

Captain Matthias De Hart (1667-1751) his son, Colonel Jacob De Hart (1699-1777), served in the New Jersey Colonial Assembly

Mayor John De Hart's daughter Abigail De Hart Mayo wrote one of the first accounts of life in Europe

Abigail's daughter Maria was the wife of Winfield Scott who maintained a summer residence in Elizabeth. Cousin also of Archibald Gracie III, of Gracie Mansion a fellow summer resident

Jacob De Hart, jr. a lawyer and founder of the "Institutio Legalis " Law Society : http://books.google.nl/books?id=bMjcCNND9AkC&pg=PA631&lpg=PA631&dq=%22JUdge+De+Hart&source=bl&ots=ZlNdqBYSbU&sig=kYDtfztkhNp7xG0MKYrCggZhyG8&hl=nl&ei=MjPES62fLdOWsQad2-2pDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22JUdge%20De%20Hart&f=false

Law and Judicial Duty, Phillip Hamburger

http://books.google.nl/books?id=TBPBRYP-leUC&pg=PA768&lpg=PA768&dq=%22Jacob+De+Hart,+jr.&source=bl&ots=H_ac_rbPpp&sig=L_cDfytZEtdSQk-dAvWcm4BIE6M&hl=nl&ei=hInES_6EBZ2ksQbwqKWJDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Jacob%20De%20Hart%2C%20jr.&f=false

William Chetwood DeHart (1800-1848) a grandnephew of Mayor De Hart, served as aide de camp to Winfield Scott in the Mexican War, and was Lieutenant Governor of Puebla during its siege. Capt. De Hart was Acting Judge Advocate of the Army. His book

a foremost scholar on military law, still being cited in the 21st Century.

W, Chetwood De Hart purchased the Boxwood Hall estate in Elizabeth, where he lived until his death in 1922.

Judge Balthasar De Hart: (with Brother James, went to Bingampton, NY http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924063952638/cu31924063952638_djvu.txt