"NANCY MORGAN HART
REVOLUTIONARY HEROINE
1735 1830
PLACED BY THE
GENERAL SAMUEL HOPKINS CHAPTER"

I was told that the marker was moved and/or rescued earlier this year {1998} by a Samuel Hopkins Chapter DAR Member, when some work was being done in and around the Park.
The tree where this marker was placed had also been removed, and the tree had grown around the marker so they had became "one".

Nancy MORGAN married Benjamin HART. His brothers, Thomas, Nathaniel and David HART, were proprietors of the Transylvania Company, whose president was Richard HENDERSON of Granville County North Carolina.

After Benjamin died in Brunswick, Glynn Co., GA., Nancy HART abt. 1803 with her son John and his wife Patience LANE, came in a wagon train wih several other families and settled in Henderson Co.

The HARTs played a prominent role in the negotiations, purchase, and colonization of a vast area of what now is a substantial part of the states of Kentucky and Tennessee.

Despite warnings from his son, in 1775 Cherokee Chief Little Carpenter sold the land, opening the wilderness and preparing the way for civilization in that state, or what the Chief's son warned, that they would turn Kentucky into "the Dark and Bloody Ground".

None of the members of the Transylvania Company, ever lived in Henderson Co., but many of their descendants and relatives settled there.

There were eight associates along with Judge Richard Henderson. Members of the Traysylvania Company:

Richard HENDERSON; John WILLIAMS; James HOGG; Thomas HART; Nathaniel HART; David HART; John LUTTRELL;William JOHNSTON; Leonard H. BULLOCK

To learn more about the Transylvania Company and History of Henderson, visit the web site presented by the DAR, General Samuel Hopkins Chapter of Henderson County, Kentucky.

General Samuel Hopkins, "Father of Henderson"

Presented by Barbara E. Johnson, bejhart@earthlink.net

Thank you, Barbara E. Johnson bejhart@earthlink.net