Josiah Bartlett

21 Nov 1729 - 19 May 1795

Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795) was born 21 Nov. 1729 in Amesbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts Bay, British Colonia America. He was the son of Deacon Stephen Bartlett and Hannah Webster. He married Mary Bartlett on 15 Jan. 1754 in New Hampshire. He died 19 May. 1795 in Kingston, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and one of the eminent men for whom Wilford Woodruff initiated proxy temple ordinance work in Aug. 1877.

Governor Josiah Bartlett (LZFS-HYD), “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 19 Mar. 2022). Josiah Bartlett, Wilford Woodruff Papers (https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/subjects/Josiah-Bartlett, accessed 19 Mar. 2022). "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," database, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com, accessed 19 Mar. 2022); Josiah Bartlett, 21 Nov. 1729, Amesbury, Massachusetts, British Colonial America, p. 26; citing “Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Vital and Town Records.” "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 19 Mar. 2022); Josiah Bartlett and Maray Bartlett, 15 Jan. 1754, New Hampshire; citing New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, “Index to marriages, early to 1900,” image 330/15066; microfilm 1000969. “Biographical Sketch of the Honarable Josiah Bartlett, One of the Delegates who signed the Declaration of Independence, and the first Governor of New-Hampshire.,” Historical & Biographical Relating Principally to New Hampshire, vol. 1, no. 3 (1831), p. 154.
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