Bartlett, Josiah (1729-1795)

Name:

Bartlett, Josiah (1729-1795)

Title:

Signer, Declaration of Independence
Chief Justice, New Hampshire
President, State of New Hampshire, 1791
Governor, State of New Hampshire, 1792-4

Born:

11/21/1729

Birthplace:

Amesbury, MA

Died:

05/19/1795

Death Location:

Kingston, NH

Residence:

Amesbury, NH
Kingston, NH 1750-1795

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Physician

Father:

Bartlett, Stephen (1691-1773)

Mother:

Webster, Hannah (1698-1768)

Relations:

3 brothers: Simeon Bartlett

Spouse:

Mary Bartlett (1730-1789), 1754

Children:

12 children (3 sons, 8 daus):
Mary "Polly", December 28, 1754; died July 7, 1826; m. Jonathan Greeley, 6 children
Lois, born June 2, 1756; died February 28, 1798; unmarried
Bartlett, Miriam (1758-; m. Joseph Calef, several children)
Rhoda, born May 22, 1759; died September 25, 1798, Salisbury; m. Reuben True
Bartlett, Hannah (1762, d. inf)
Levi, born September 3, 1763; died January 30, 1828; m. Abigail Stevens, doctor, Haverhill, NH.; 3+ children, son Levi, doctor in Salisbury, NH.
Bartlett, Dorothy (1767, d. inf.)
Josiah, born August 29, 1768; died April 16, 1838, Stratham; m. Hannah Weeks; doctor, Stratham, N.H., Kingston, N.H; no children
Ezra, born September 13, 1770; died December 5,1848, Haverhill, NH; physician, Haverhill, N.H., Warner, N.H.; m. Hannah Gale; 6 sons, Josiah - doctor in Stratham NH - , Levi - doctor in Syracuse NY - , Ezra - doctor in Exeter NH - , Ames, Albert, Stephen - doctor in Tuskeegee AL)
Sarah "Sally" born 1773-; m. Amos Gale)
Bartlett, Hannah (1776-7)

Notes:

Levi Bartlett, Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the Bartlett Family in England and America. (Lawrence, Massachusetts: George S. Merrill & Crocker, 1876), 46-51, 57-59.

Plains Cemetery, Kingston, NH