William DeHart

Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887"

"De Hart, William, lawyer, b. in Elizabethtown, N.J., 7 Dec., 1746; d. in Morristown, N.J., 16 June, 1801. He practised law before the Revolution. He was appointed major of the 1t New Jersey battalion, 7 Nov., 1775, and lieutenant=colonel in 1776. Before the close of the war he resigned his commission and resumed law-practice at Morristown. One of his two brothers was also engaged in the service as aide to Gen. Wayne, and fell at Fort Lee in 1780. Colonel De Hart was eminent as a lawyer, and possessed much with and humor. He was president of the St. Tammany society in 1789. -- his son William Chetwood, soldier, b. in New York state in 1800; d. in Elizabethtown, N.J., 2 April 1848,..."