Mary Hartop
BIRTH
1732
DEATH
August 9, 1800
FAMILY
FATHER:
Chiverton Hartopp
(1690-1759)
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Hartop, Mary
(1732-1800)
Mary Hartop (1732-1800) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of Richard Lord Howe. Richard Lord Howe was a naval officer whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Mary Hartop to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including Mary Hartop in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
The exact date and place of Mary Hartop’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Mary Hartop is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Mary Hartop died on Aug 9, 1800. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.