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BELGIANS IN AMERICA:    Biographies of Belgian settlers  

John Hartman, came from New Jersey in 1813 and settled in Lycoming county, twenty miles above Williamsport, Pa. Here he farmed a tract of 200 acres for thirty years and then moved to Williamsport for a year. From that town he went to Montoursville, Lycoming county, where he died about 1862. He married a Miss Bloom, whose family came from Belgium, and they had these children: William B. ; Abraham, who married Martha Freas; Mary E. wife of Isaac Artley; Sarah Ann, wife of John Bennett and John Fisher. Mr. Hartman was an old-time Whig and a member of the Episcopal Church.

Source : (collective work) : Historical and biographical annals of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania : containing a concise history of the two counties and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families : in two volumes, illustrated.; Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1915, 1395  pgs.