Individual Details
John Hartshorn
(6 May 1650 - Aft 1737)
Published 1997, Page 24
Born in Reading, Massachusetts, and an early settler of Haverhill, Massachusetts, John Hartshorn was a weaver, a tailor, and a clerk. He became a lieutenant in the militia and was active in the Indian Wars, serving under Capt. Sill, from 1675-76. He served in Queen Anne's War in the Massachusetts Militia.
A step-brother of the carver Joseph Lamson, John at about the age of fifty began carving gravestones in Haverhill, where he was the town's first carver. His early stones all have elongated unframed faces in the top of the stone, with solid bars of varied design on either side of the face. The side border design is usually a series of crude bell-like shapes. About 1708 the faces become more round and are framed, and the bars become segmented and more delicate. The side borders also become more varied and lighter. Large circle rosettes then enter the top alonside the face, and the segmented bards are pushed to the corners. About 1723, Hartshorn went to Connecticut where his work is devoid of the rosettes and the face is decorated with either halo-like bars or "rabbit-ear" bars, for the most part. His work is interesting in that it does not portray a deathhead (skull with wings) but is simply a face or "soul-mask" and thus is not a copy of the traditional gravestone design of his day. His best work is found in Haverhill and Ipswich, Massachusetts, and in Lebanon, Connecticut.
On 5 December 1737, when he was 87 years old, he was one of the few soldiers of King Philip's War still alive when granted land in the Narragansett country. At this time, he and son Jonathan and grandson David were located in West Farms (later Franklin) but David's son John may have been granted land in Mansfield where he was located in 1757. In Norwich West Farms, Lt. John and David lived with Martha and Samuel Ladd.
Events
| Birth | 6 May 1650 | Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts |  | ||
| Marriage | 19 Sep 1672 | Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts - Ruth Swan | | ||
| Death | Aft 1737 | Norwich, New London, Connecticut | | ||
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Families
| Spouse | Ruth Swan (1652 - 1690) |
| Father | Thomas HARTSHORN (1614 - 1683) |
| Mother | Susanna BUCK (1622 - 1659) |
| Sibling | Thomas Hartshorn (1646 - 1646) |
| Sibling | Thomas Hartshorn (1648 - 1729) |
| Sibling | Joseph Hartshorn (1652 - 1727) |
| Sibling | Benjamin Hartshorn (1654 - 1694) |
| Sibling | Jonathan Hartshorn (1656 - 1672) |
| Sibling | David HARTSHORN (1657 - 1738) |
| Sibling | Susannah Hartshorn (1659 - 1718) |
Endnotes
1. , Hartshorn, Derick S. III, Hartshorn Families in America: A Genealogical Study of the Line of Thomas Hartshorn, the Immigrant, of Reading Massachusetts and Other Families Bearing the Surname Hartshorn/e Who Arrived in America in Succeeding Years (Bal (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), p. 23.
2. Hartshorn, Derick S. III, Hartshorn Families in America: A Genealogical Study of the Line of Thomas Hartshorn, the Immigrant, of Reading Massachusetts and Other Families Bearing the Surname Hartshorn/e Who Arrived in America in Succeeding Years (Baltimore Maryland, Gateway Press Inc, 1997), p. 23.
3. Hartshorn, Derick S. III, Hartshorn Families in America: A Genealogical Study of the Line of Thomas Hartshorn, the Immigrant, of Reading Massachusetts and Other Families Bearing the Surname Hartshorn/e Who Arrived in America in Succeeding Years (Baltimore Maryland, Gateway Press Inc, 1997), p. 23.
4. Hartshorn, Derick S. III, Hartshorn Families in America: A Genealogical Study of the Line of Thomas Hartshorn, the Immigrant, of Reading Massachusetts and Other Families Bearing the Surname Hartshorn/e Who Arrived in America in Succeeding Years (Baltimore Maryland, Gateway Press Inc, 1997), p. 23.
5. Hartshorn, Derick S. III, Hartshorn Families in America: A Genealogical Study of the Line of Thomas Hartshorn, the Immigrant, of Reading Massachusetts and Other Families Bearing the Surname Hartshorn/e Who Arrived in America in Succeeding Years (Baltimore Maryland, Gateway Press Inc, 1997), p. 23.