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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 8127678, member: 12789&quot;][ATTACH=full]1415548[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Insignificant when he signed this note, a bit over three months later he appended his signature to the Declaration of Independence.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the signers of this note, the centre signature, is of John Hart. John Hart was born ca. 1711 in Connecticut, his ancestry going into the 17th century in New England. John Hart began a political career with his election to the Hunterdon County Board of Freeholders in 1750, later on he would be elected into the colonial Assembly of New Jersey. When the latter legislature was dissolved he joined the Committee of Safety and the Committee of Correspondence. He would go on to become a member of the first New Jersey provincial congress, and was elected it&#039;s vice president in early 1776. During the First Continental Congress this assembly was opposed to independence and was subsequently dissolved. </p><p><br /></p><p>Mr. Hart would then join a new assembly, this time in favour of independence and would a mere few months after signing this note, go on to join the New Jersey delegation that signed the Declaration of Independence. As he was now a marked man by the British, during the Battle of Trenton he had to go into hiding. During that time his farm was raided and damaged by British and Hessian soldiers, but the defeat of the British at the battle permitted his return to his home. Hart would continue to serve New Jersey as an assemblyman, and Committee of Safety member until his death in 1779.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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