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Maltby Genealogy

American Lineage

CGB-GEd. Susannah Molby, b. Nov. 7, 1821, New York (Chester 5, Jonathan 4, Sam.3, Sam.2, Wm.1). She m. Truman Hart, b. May 1, 1819. She died May 15, 1891. He died Sept. 13, 1892.

Mr. Louis J. Sears, Baldwinsville, N.Y., said that Truman Hart was a cousin of his mother's and that Truman moved to Hillsdale, Mich. He sold some of the first washing machines made. They were of wood. To wash, a few of the articles to be washed were laid lengthwise in a sheet; the sheet folded over them and the whole rolled back and forth on a corrugated surface of the machine.

Truman Hart and Susannah his wife are buried in the Methodist Cemetery in Reading, Mich., on the same lot as Susannah's mother, Sally, wife of Chester Molby.

Truman Hart was a son of Parson Hart, of Rhode Island, b. 1792, and his wife Mary (Polly), b. 1796.

In 1844, Susannah bought 40 acres of land one mile east of Reading, from Samuel Molby.

In 1880 Census, Reading Twp., Hillsdale Co., Mich. gives Truman Hart, 61, b. New York; mother's birthplace, New York; father's birthplace, Rhode Island.

       Children:
VII.2179.  George Hart, b. Aug. 28, 1842
VII.2180.  Wallace  "   b. July 20, 1844
VII.2180A.  Samuel   "   b. June 22, 1847
VII.2180B.  James Henry Hart, b. Feb. 9, 1850
VII.2180C.  Charlotte Ann "   b. Sept. 22, 1852
VII.2180D.  Sarah E.      "   b. Aug. 29, 1859
VII.2180E.  Chester M.    "   b. Nov. 29, 1860

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