Hart Leavitt

The Massachusetts homes of Hart Leavitt and his brother Roger Hooker are both listed today on the National Park Service's Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

The rest of his life he devoted to his substantial business affairs, handling his family's landholdings and serving in the town, county and state government.

Joshua Leavitt had left both professions for the role of full-time editor of abolitionist and social reform publications including The Emancipator.

That year Roger Leavitt, Hart's father, accepted the nomination of the newly formed Massachusetts Liberty Party to run for state Lieutenant Governor on an abolitionist ticket.

"[9] Hart Leavitt served as a Selectman for several years for the town of Heath,[10] a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives,[11] as well as a Justice of the Peace and Franklin County Commissioner from Charlemont during his later life.

[14] The couple had six children: sons Edward Hart, Joseph Ware, Joshua, Roger, Spencer Miller; and daughter Mary.