Benjamin Hart (1754-1802)
N 31° 09.213 W 081° 28.686
17R E 454430 N 3446717
Located in corner of this coastal park, this is presumed to be the resting place of Benjamin Hart--husband of Nancy Hart.
Waymark Code: WM6QZR
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/11/2009
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Nancy Hart
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Nancy Morgan Hart (c. 1735 – 1830) was a heroine of the American Revolutionary War whose exploits against Loyalists in the Georgia backcountry are the stuff of legend. Because stories about her are mostly unsupported by contemporary documentation, it is impossible to entirely distinguish fact from folklore
According to the most famous story about her, during the Revolution a group of "Tory" soldiers (5 or 6) came by her house either looking for food or a Whig they were pursuing. The soldiers demanded that she cook them one of the turkeys in her yard before they left. She sent her daughter to the well for water and secretly instructed her to blow a conch shell to warn her husband and neighbors.
She agreed to feed the Tory soldiers. As they entered the cabin, they placed their guns by the door and sat down at her table to eat. As they were drinking and eating, she was pushing their guns through the holes in the floor of her log cabin. After they had been drinking a sufficient time, she grabbed one of the guns left and threatened the men not to move. One ignored her and she killed him. Another made a move toward the stacked weapons, and was subsequently killed by Hart also. The remaining Tories were held captive until her husband, Benjamin Hart, and neighbors arrived. According to legend, her husband wanted to shoot the soldiers, but she demanded they hang. They were hanged on a nearby tree.
During the late 1790s, the Harts moved to Brunswick, Georgia. Benjamin Hart died soon afterward.
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Hart was well connected through family ties to many prominent figures in early American history. She was a cousin to Revolutionary War general Daniel Morgan, who commanded victorious American forces at the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina on January 17, 1781. Her husband, Benjamin Hart, came from a distinguished family that later produced such famous political figures as Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton and Kentucky senator Henry Clay.