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Description
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Elizabeth L. Hart Coats (1812-1859) received land from her father, Henry C. Hart, which the U.S. government granted to him for his military service in the War of 1812. Elizabeth Hart settled in Missouri and married James Coats.
The Harts were enslavers. In 1855, Henry C. Hart and Elizabeth L. Hart emancipated Susan, a 25-year-old woman described as married to George Kibby on December 4, 1855. It is possible, but not confirmed, that a Henry Hart in the 1840 St. Louis census who enslaved one young woman was the same Henry C. Hart. According to the 1860 Census, H. Clay Hart enslaved 14 people in Carondelet: three women ages 60, 30, and 22, four men ages 35, 32, 24, and 21, a 17-year-old youth, four boys ages 13, 10, 6, and 4, and two girls ages 3 and six months.
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