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History of the Society of Descendants
of Robert Baitlet of
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Incorporated I )(Ci-inhir I I. 1<)()!»
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Compiled, and some portions written by
JNIarian LoxciFELi.ow, Historian
of tJic Society
Press of
LORING-AXTELL CoMl'ANV
Springfield, Mass.
l.rcRs Wakken Bartlett, President
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FOREWORD
N the liist()r\- of a laniil\-, it is iu'ccssar>' to
(k-al with statistics; statistics arc (h-\- as
(hist, as a general thing, yet tlic\' incorporate
e\ents that ha\e their being in history.
Your Historian lias encleaNorccl to place
before you such matter only as seems essen-
tial to a full knowledge of the line from which
>'()u have descent, and, at the same time to bring \'()u in touch
with all that the Society- has done and hojx's to accomplish
which will l)e of interest and benefit to all in whose \-eins
flows the blood of Robert and Mary Bartlet, wliether affili-
ated with this Society or not.
Your Historian furthermore hopes that this little pamph-
let may pro\-e of some interest to that vast arnu' of persons
seeking to establish certain family data along their own lines,
and with this desire, personal and impersonal, she submits
the following report.
Marian Lo\(;fello\v,
Historian, Society Descendants of Robert
Bartlet, of Plymouth, Massachusetts,
Inc.
HISTORY
ISTORY is a stern mistress; she exacts the
best; she demands the truth and nothing
)ut the truth. When false entries are made
ui)on her scroll, either by intention or
through lack of that qualification which
forever stamps the real historian, such
entries are fortunately in the long riui
doomed to fall from her record.
In no wa>' is history more sure of perpetuation than in
careful genealogy. Therefore, this country owes a debt of
gratitude to the genealogist, and should encourage in every
possible way the formation of genealogical societies. Many
are the sins of the average genealogist; many the crimes
committed against truth by those whose work is careless
and inadequate, through omission as well as commission ;
but the greatest of these is the sin of inaccuracy. The active
evil of incorrect statements far outstrips the passive evil of
omission of facts.
If I were to give advice to the aspirant for work in genea-
logical fields I should urge Festina lente (make haste slowlyj,
for nothing can compensate for an inaccurate entry ! Better,
a thousand times, leave the page blank, whereon at some
future day the trained genealogist may inscribe the truth,
than place an error upon its virgin page, an error almost
certain to be perpetuated and to lead the searcher after truth
astray.
History keeps ali\e the memory of those whose virtues
it inscribes; the course of the nation which is " the survival
of the fittest," and holds it up for admiration and emulation.
Likewise it stamps for all time that nation which has gone
down in shame, like a star lost from the firmament, although
the indi\-idual offender is in many cases forgotten. We deal
in this report w'ith the lives of our ancestors Robert Bartlet
and Mary Warren his wafe; their forbears and their posterity.
The name of Bartelot or Barttelot, is of such antiquity,
historians say, that it is shrouded in the mists of time.
Robert Bartlet of Massachusetts came of a long and
honorable line.
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The first of the faniih' was Adam Barttelot, an es(|uire
in the retinue of Brian, a knight, and they came into Eng-
land with WilUam the Conqueror, and fought at Hastings.
Both were granted lands. In the fifteenth century, a castle
appears as the crest of the coat-of-arms which was granted by
Edward the Black Prince to John Barttelot, for taking the
castle of Fontenoy, in France. In the sixteenth century, a
swan was added, and granted liy the Garter King of Arms.
Since that time, the crest is double, a castle and a swan.
The original coat-of-arms of the family was three open,
left-hand, falconer's gloves, with golden tassels about the
wrist. The coat-of-arms now in use is very elaborate, rep-
resenting the quarterings, difTerent coats-of-arms of families
who have intermarried with the Barttelots.
3^nUn
Hartlett Coat-of-Arms
with Ikt wings expanded
Original. — Siiield saltic or black wil'n ihix'e falconer's sinister gloves
pendent, argent or white, bands tasselled gold or \ellow^ — arranged tri-
angularly, two at top, one at bottom.
Crests. — A swan, argent or white, coucl
in dorso; a castle with three tltrrets, sable.
Motto. — MATURE — In good time.
In the fifteenth century a castle appears as the crest of the coat-of-
arms which was granted by Edward the Black Prince to John Bartelot
for taking the Castle of Fontenoy in France.
In the sixteenth century a swan was added and granted by the ( iarter
King of Arms.
Since that time the crest is double, a castle and swan.
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l'rc\i()us lo 1700 lluTi' wrrr al K'asl 1\\ i'iit\-lliri'c cmi-
s^icUUs of llu' iianu' of Barllrt. Roht-rl, llu' ancfslor with
whom we are coiuenied, was ihe tirsl, and eanie to Phni-
outh in 1623, in the good ship Ann. He died in 1676,
aged seventy-three. His descendants are numerous. Rich-
ard came to Newbur>' previous to 1635 and died in 1647,
aged about seventy-two. John went to Newport, R. I.,
and became a freeman in 1638.
As a family the Bartletts were noted as thrift >•, jMudent,
and desirable citizens, we are told. One hundred and thirt\-
are on the rolls of American colleges; the\' ha\e been con-
spicuous in law, divinity, and medicine, the arm\', and the
navy. The army claims eighty-six as commissioned officers
during the Civil War.
Robert Bartlet's forbears made history; his descendants
cherish his memory and strive to emulate his virtues. He
married, in due time, Mary, daughter of Richard Warren,
himself a descendant of a long and honorable line. Richard
Warren had royal blood in his veins; his own wife was so
pure, so high-minded, so noble, that the strain of royalty held
a second place. Thus from Robert Bartlet and Mary War-
ren came a line which the Society of the Descendants of Rob-
ert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass. is striving by every means in
its power to honor, to emulate, and to publish to the world.
In the report of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Anniver-
sary of the Second Congregational Church, on November 9,
1896, we learn that " it w^as at Manomet Ponds, Manomet,
or South Plymouth, that the first white settlement previous
to 1639 was established. This infant settlement was a part
of the Plymouth Rock settlement, for some ninety years,
and its religious affiliations were still there, but in 1731 it
became a separate district, under the name of the Second
Precinct, although not so incorporated actually until 1810.
Joseph Bartlet, son of Robert, w^as its first clerk. The name
of Bartlet figures in all the affairs of this settlement, eleven
of that name holding the office of moderator.
" When the Pilgrims settled in Plymouth they believed
that the sea extended inland just beyond the pine hills.
They discovered their mistake and established the settlement
of Manomet Ponds."
It is at the foot of these pine hills on the Plymouth side
that the Boulder erected by the Society is situated. The
old road to Manomet ran from the old Warren estate along
the wall which now lies south of the site of the Boulder.
Robert Bartlet resided here; he owned land here, which his
children inherited.
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This SocifU liad its iiicrplioii in 1908. I (|U(jIu llic
sLatement of Lucius Warren liarUclt, its tirsL and, so far,
only President. His address before the American Society of
Colonial Families, on the fourth of January, nineteen hundred
and twelve, is as follows:
The Origin and Progress of the Society of the De-
scendants OF Robert Bartlet, of Plymouth,
Mass. ■
To the Officers and Members of the American Society of Colo-
nial Families,
Greeting:
Previous to 1905 I knew nothing of the Bartlet ancestry
back of my great-grandfather, Edward 5, who removed from
Stoughton to Cummington, Mass., in 1795. Milly, his
seventh child, married Stephen Tower, of Cummington, and
in their family Bible was this record:
" Benjamin Bartlet died April 23, 1776, age 77.
Hannah Bartlet died Dec. 17, 1799, age 86."
In 1905, Mercer V. Tilson, who compiled the Tilson Gene-
alogy, recently published, sent me a circular, as my paternal
grandmother was a Tilson. Correspondence with Mr.
Tilson, using the Bible record as a basis, established my line
back to Robert Bartlet, and in the spring of 1908 I requested
Mr. Tilson to engage a room in Brockton where the few inter-
ested in the work for the previous three years could meet and
dine together. It was suggested the call include any of the
descendants of Robert Bartlet. The meeting was held
August 13, 1908, the attendance being nearly forty, and an
organization was effected by choosing of^cers.
The second meeting and reunion was held at Manomet;
the third and fourth in the Methodist Church at Plymouth.
It is proposed to hold the fifth at Mt. Tom, Holyoke.
The society was incorporated for the purpose of securing
a grant of land upon which the home of Robert and Mary
(Warren) Bartlet was situated, and in 1910 a Memorial was
placed on the site, being a granite Boulder with a bronze
tablet thereon.
At the last reunion the by-laws were amended so that hus-
bands and wives of descendants and other acceptable per-
sons may, upon payment of dues, become Associate members,
entitled to all privileges except voting and holding olifice.
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W'c liaxc on our prt'sciil niailiiii; list oxer six liiiiidivd
(icsceiulaiUs. ;
RcspecltuUy \ours,
Lucii's \\'akri:n Barti.I'.tt, President.
Hartford, Conn., January 4, l')12.
After mature consideration, Mr. Lucius Warren Bartletl
issued the following call to all descendants of Benjamin
Bartlet (4) the great-grandson of Robert Bartlet and Mary
Warren, his wife:
GENEALOGICAL — Bartlett
A meeting of the descendants of Benjamin Bartlet (4),
who settled in Stoughton, Mass., about 1750, will be held
at the Young Men's Christian Association, Main and
West Elm Streets, Brockton, Mass., on Thursday, August
13, 1908, at 10 a. m. Those who attend are requested to
provide themselves with a basket lunch, to be eaten on the
old Bartlet farm, weather permitting. If stormy, at the
Hall. Electric cars pass the Hall, also witliin a few rods of
the farm.
Any of the descendants of Robert Bartlet (1) of Plymouth
are cordially invited, as one object of the gathering will be
to plan for an annual reunion of the descendants of Rob-
ert (1), who came in the Arm, 1623, place and date to be
acted on at this meeting. Correspondence solicited. Lucius
W. Bartlett, 2>?> Russ Street, Hartford, Conn.
Lucius Warren Bartlett (8), Ephraim T. (7), F^phraim
(6), Edward (5), Benjamin (4), Benjamin (3), Joseph (2),
Robert (1).
Hartford, Conn., July 10, 1008.
The Brockton Times had the following account of the meet-
ing of the Society:
" The Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet (1),
of Plymouth, and of Benjamin Bartlet (4), who settled in
Stoughton about 1750, was organized at the local Y. M. C. A.
today.
" Much interest in the formation of this new society
centers in Benjamin. The original homes of three members
of the family who lived here between 1750 and 1765 have
long since been destroyed, but the old cellars still remain to
testify to this fact. The farm is located one-half mile over
the line from Brockton between Stoughton and Canton.
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" The idea of this rfiinion orii^inalcd with Lucius W.
liarllctl of Hartford, Conn., a (Hrect desrcndanL of Henja-
min Bartlet of Stoughton."
Mr. Lucius W. Bartlett, when accepting the otifice of
president, read the following most interesting paper, that he
had prepared, about the Bartletts:
THE BARTLKTT NAME
I quote from a book entitled " The Bartletts, Ancestral,
Genealogical, Biographical, Historical," with special refer-
ence to the descendants of John Bartlett of Weymouth and
Cumberland by Thomas Edward Bartlett, now deceased, of
whom I would state he was strongly antiquarian in his tastes,
was a corresponding member of the Worcester Society of
Antiquity and spent a large amount of time and money in the
compiling of his book.
" Of names distinguished in the colonial town and state an-
nals of our American Union none is of more uniformly honor-
able record than that of Bartlett. The name frequently
appears in connection with momentous events of New Eng-
land's early days, the actors of which will be remembered
for the greatness of their deeds, the strength of their patriot-
ism, and for the tenacity of their adherence to principle.
Some who have borne the name while not perhaps eminent
for the splendor of their public career are properly entitled
to grateful remembrance for their exemplary conduct and
successful endeavor in good citizenship and as friends of their
fellow men.
" The Bartletts, like some of the other early settlers who
were landed proprietors and owmers of estates, were thrifty,
forehanded, peacefully inclined persons, w^ho benefit the
community of which they are members. Most of them were
fairly educated and it is this love of learning and respect for
good order which is significant of a common ancestry. More
than one hundred and thirty persons of the name have been
graduates of American colleges."
The three professions, — Law, Medicine, and Divinity,
— have abundantly demonstrated the fact that the Bartletts
have been influential in society as jurists, judges, statesmen,
physicians, teachers, and ministers of religion. As generals
and officers high in command in the army and navy they have
been distinguished for courage and bravery. The Official
Register of volunteer force of the United States Army, 1861-
65 contains the names of eighty-six Bartletts who were com-
missioned officers in the army during the W'ar of the Rebel-
lion. On page 88 of his book, he says: "The following list
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of Bartletts wlio had arrived in this country previous to
1700 all of which are presumed to have emigrated from Hng-
kiiid has been obtained from original statistics and nearly all
of tlie twenty-three Bartletts enumerated in the hst arc known
lo lia\c descendants."
That these immigrants so nearly contemporaneous in
their arrival in this country were connected by consanguinit\-
cannot be doubted, although to this time no effectixe effort
has been made to place them on record in their precise rela-
tionship to each other owing to the magnitude of the work of
examining ever>- discernible record touching the histor\- of
each.
It is generalU' believed that all persons in this country
named Bartlett are without doubt of Norman ancestry.
There is a large estate at Stopham, Sussex, England, consist-
ing of some thousands of acres, which has been in possession
of the Bartletts for hundreds of years. The first of the
family was Adam Bartelot (as the name was spelled in early
times), an esquire in the retinue of Bryan a knight and they
came into England with William the Concjueror and fought
at Hastings. Both were granted lands.
Levi Bartlett of Warner, N. H., now deceased, author of
" Sketches of the Bartlett Family," quotes from a letter re-
ceived by him from Col. W^alter B. Bartlett the present rep-
resentative of the family as follows: " I have always supposed
that my American relatives must have descended from
Edmund Barttelot (11) of Ernly in Sussex. I may here men-
tion that upon the record of the pedigree of the family that
a Richard, John, and Thomas Barttelot who lived here were
born 1580 1590 and there their record ends, the>' ha\'ing gone
and very likely to America."
This is probably the foundation for the statement made
b>' some writers of the three Bartlet brothers, Richard, John,
and Thomas that came to America in 1634-5, the two former
settling at Newbury and the latter at Watertown.
I am especially interested in this meeting today and in the
colonial history of the two colonies, Plymouth and Massachu-
setts Bay, because all four of my grandparents trace their lin- ■
eage right back to Plymouth and Hingham. On nu- mother's
side both grandparents were Towers, descending in separate
lines from John Tower (1) at Hingham, 1637. On m\' father's
side my grandmother was a Tilson, a descendant of Edmund
(1) of Plymouth, 1638. The Bartletts, Towers, and Tilsons
of my ancestral lines came from these shores to Cumming-
ton, Mass., then an almost unbroken wilderness, at about the
same time, soon after the close of the Re\()lutionar\' War.
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Edward Bartlett (5) came with Ilmi rhildrcn. Stephen
Tower (6) had thirteen chilch'en, but the Tilsons were not
(luite as numerous. Thex' settled on a section of c()untr>-
about four miles scjuare, their lands adjoining, and the fam-
ilies intermarried, " swapping " sisters and brothers until the
most expert genealogist would find it a difficult task to deter-
mine their precise relationship. The Bartlett and Tower
houses were less than a mile apart and I was born, April 3,
1841. in a house situated about half way between them.
That this little band of the faithful was destined to grow
in numbers and strength has been proxen in subseciuenl >'ears.
Pre\ious to the second reunion of this Society the fol-
lowing call to the members, and program outlined, was
sent out:
Thk Si'Xoxd Annual Ri-:union of thi-: Descendants of
Robert Bartlet, Plymouth, Mass.
1623
August 27, 1909
The second annual reunion of the Society of the De-
scendants of Robert Bartlet (1) of Plymouth, who came over in
the ship Ann, in 1623 will be held at White Horse Beach
Manomet, Plymouth, Mass., August 27, 1909. Manomet
is a charming seaside village in the historic old town of Plym-
outh, and White Horse Beach is the finest of Plymouth's
fine beaches and only a minute's walk from Hotel Crescent
where the meeting will be held.
Robert Bartlet married in 1628, Mary, daughter of Rich-
ard Warren, a Mayflower Pilgrim.
Manomet, the scene of many historic events, is where
Robert li\-ed and died and where his possessions were. Onh'
a short walk by a path across the fields, is the second Bartlet
house built by Robert's son Joseph in 1680. The place is
known as the Bartlet Farm, and has been owned and occupied
In- the Bartletts from that time to the present.
All persons who can trace their ancestry to Robert Bart-
let are cordially invited to be present and bring their friends
and thus assist in making the occasion one of great interest as
well as pleasant and profitable. It is earnestly desired also
that as many possible remain and visit on Saturday the man\-
points of great historical interest in and abotit Plymouth:
Plymouth Rock. Burial Hill, Pilgrim Hall, the National Mon-
ument to the I'orefathers, etc.
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Family Cradle found in thk Old Bartlett House built
AT AIanomet in 1680. — Scene of Second
Reunion of Bartlett Society
Order of Exercises
August 27. — The day until 1.30 p. m. will be dcNoted to
the reception of members, registration, introductions, sight-
seeing, and sociability.
At 1.30 p. m. dinner will be serxed in the large dining-hall
of Hotel Crescent, which will be for our exclusive use from
that hour.
immediateh' following dinner the business meeting will
be held in the dining-hall.
All Bartlett descendants are requested to be present and
express their views on questions which may arise.
Order of Business
1. Opening Exercises.
2. Secretary's Record of the previous meeting.
3. Secretary's Report.
4. Treasurer's Report.
5. Historian's Report.
6. Unfinished Business.
7. New Business.
8. Election of Officers.
Lucius Warren Bartlett, President.
Hartford. Com
Mrs. Edith \. Cushinc;, Secretary.
Middleboro, Mas
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Election of Officers
OF'FICERS
Lucius W. Bartlett, President, Hartford, Conn.
David L. Bodfish, First Vice-President, Palmer, Mass.
John Bartlett, Second Vice-President, Brockton, Mass.
Mrs. Edith I. Cushinc., Secretary and Treasurer, Middle-
horo, Mass.
Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet, Historian, Roxburx', Mass.
ExECUTi\E Committee
Lucius \\\ Bartlett, Hartford, Conn.
Mrs. Edith L Cushing, Middleboro, Mass.
Ephraim D. Bartlett, Plymouth, Mass.
Miss Helen Bird, East Bridgewater, Mass.
Herman Packard, Brockton, Mass.
A feature of the reunion was the poem written for the
occasion and read by Mrs. Anna Bartlett Johnson of Mano-
met.
It was voted to erect a memorial on the spot where Robert
Bartlet erected his home.
Appended is the address of welcome l:»y the President,
Lucius Warren Bartlett of Hartford, Conn.
President's Address, August 27, 1909
Brothers and sisters of the Robert Bartlet Family: — It
is with sincere pleasure that I once more welcome you to this
our second reunion. I am exceedingly gratified to see so
many of the descendants of Robert and Mary (Warren)
Bartlet gathered here, almost as it were upon the hearthstone
where they lived, and wrought, and died; where they, with
the rest of that little company of Pilgrims, contributed their
full share of the privations, the danger and the toil incident
to the founding of a new commonwealth upon the principles
of Justice, Equality, and the right of the people to govern
themselves. They builded better than they knew. By their
courage, steadfastness, and energy; by their strict adherence
to those cardinal principles of Honesty and Virtue so neces-
sary to the building of upright character and without which
no community or state can long survive, they laid \hv foun-
dations of this great, powerful, and prosperous nation, the
United States of America.
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In my search for the descendants of Robert Bartlet, I
disco^■ered some members of the family to whom I became
very much attached, which created a strong desire to meet
them all again and talk over, in a social and informal man-
ner, our common interests as members of the Bartlett family.
It was this desire that led to the call for the meeting which
was held at Brockton on August 13, 1908. That meeting was
a most gratifying success. The society was born; we gaxe it
a name and elected officers to look after its welfare.
We are here again, today, an infant of one year's growth,
yet a strong healthy child and, judging from the number
and character of those present, it is sufficiently able to walk
alone.
My concluding thought is — for what purpose was the
Society born and why are we gathered here today? We might
answer for social enjoyment; to have a day of relaxation
from the work and cares of our ordinary life; to make the
acquaintance of those who are our kindred in blood, who are
descendants of a common ancestor, not forgetting that in a
larger sense we are kindred of all people as we are children
of a common father, God. But to my mind there is some-
thing far deeper and more lasting, however good these things
may be in themselves. We are gathered here, I trust, to do
honor to the memory of those who by their virtues, their
precepts, their example, their steadfast adherence to prin-
ciple and to the right as they saw it, have left to us, their
children, an inheritance which we cannot value too highly.
In the contemplation of their characters, and what they
achieved under adverse circumstances, we should gather in-
spiration and a renewed vigor to go forward in the battle, for
it is always such, for what is right, what is just, and whatever
there is we can do for the uplifting of humanity. We flatter
ourselves how brave we all would be if we had the opportu-
nit\-. If we had lived in their day or in the days of the Rexo-
lution or the Civil War we would have been found in the
forefront of battle and on the firing line. Selfishness and
greed, vice and evil in all its forms never sleep on their arms.
You do not need a war nor a chance to face a cannon's mouth
to show that you are brave. What is needed in times of
peace are MORAL HERO PIS, in which we are wofully lack-
ing. There is plenty of room in that army, a great oppor-
tunity for you and me, for the world is brimful and running
over with moral cowards. Let us not add to the number.
Therefore, I repeat, let us gather together as often as we
can and resoK'e that we, so far as in us lies, will make our-
seKes wcjrthy of the ricli inheritance ihat lias been becjuealhed
to us by the privations, the struggles, and the sacrifices ot
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those we are met to honor. Let us preser\(.' and transmit
that inheritanee unimpaired to our posteritx , that in the
years to come the>' ma>' rise up and do us honor vwn as we
do honor those who ha\e gcMie before us.
Rhport of Mkktinc. Hhld Au(;ust 13, 1908 (Prkvious
Mi-:i-:tix(;) by thi-; Sp:cri-:taky
To the Members of the Society of the Descendants of Robert
Bartlet of Plymouth, who came in the ship Ann, i62>^. /
render ivith much pleasure tJiis report of the first meeti)iii.
In response to tlie Call contained in tlie followinj; circu-
lar letter, o\'er fift\' ]:)ersons, from all sections, asseml)le(l in
Y. M. C. A. Hall," Brockton, Mass., Thursday, August 13.
1908.
The organizer, Mr. Lucius \\\ Bartlett, of Hartford, Conn.,
called the meeting to order at 10 a. m. A temporary-
organization was effected 1)\- making Mr. Lucius W. Bart-
lett Chairman, and Mrs. Kdith I. (Bartlett) Cushing, Secre-
tary.
It was a ^■ery informal meeting and as a result of sociabil-
it\' and a general discussion on the desirabilit>' of a Society-
of the descendants of Robert Bartlet (1) the ]:)ersons pres-
ent voted to form a permanent organization.
On motion a Committee was chosen, composed of the
Chairman, Secretary, and three others, Mr. Horace W. Mann
of Stoughton, Mr.' David L. Bodfish of Palmer, and Mr.
John Bartlett of Brockton, to withdraw and report upon a
name and plan of organization for the new Society. During
this inter\-al, all present were writing out their lines of de-
scent to be gi\en to an official for \-erification.
When the Chairman called the meeting to order once
more, the Committee made the following report, which was
unanimoush' accepted by those present.
That the organization be called the " Society of l)es(-end-
ants of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth — who came in the Ship
A nn, in 1623."
That the officers shall consist of a President, two Vice-
Presidents, a Secretary-Treasurer, an Historian, and Execu-
ti\-e Committee composed of fi\e members, two of which shall
be the President and Secretary-.
The meeting then proceeded to elect officers and made
choice of the following:
President, Mr. Lucius Warren Bartlett, of Hartford, Conn.
1st Vice-President, Mr. I)a\id L. Bodfish, of Palmer,
Mass.
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2d Vice-President, Mr. John Bartlett, of Brockton, Mass.
Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Kdith I. (Bartlctt) dishing, of
Middlelwro, Mass.
Historian, Mrs. Sarah S. Barlk'l, of Roxbury, Mass.
Executive Committee, Presick'nt, Secretary, Mr. Ephrahn
D. Bartlett, Plymouth, Mass., Miss Helen Bird, East
Bridgewater, Mass., Mr. Herman Packard, Brockton, Mass.
After the President's address of welcome, the next busi-
ness brought before the meeting was the question of dues.
As no organization can be conducted without more or less
expense, it was voted to make the dues fifty cents a \'ear.
The financial year to begin with the date of the Annual Re-
union.
It was also voted that the executive committee prepare
a constitution and by-laws to present at the next meeting;
also N'oted that the time and place of the next meeting be
left with the executi\'e committee. The morning session
was then adjourned until 2 o'clock.
Many of those present went to the old Bartlet Farm in
Stoughton, at the noon interval, to partake of their basket
lunch. While there a group picture was taken which appears
on our souvenir post cards.
The afternoon session was principally of a social nature.
The weather bureau reported the next day that " Yester-
da\' was one of the hottest August 13ths on record." Who
doubted it?
After making many pleasant acquaintances (as we were
mostly strangers before this) the meeting adjourned till
" we meet again at our Second Annual Meeting."
All will agree that this first meeting of the Bartletts was a
decided success, and too much praise and thanks cannot be
given to our President, the organizer, Mr. Lucius W. Bart-
lett, who has been most generous in the expenditure of his
time and money to bring this about.
Respectfully submitted,
Edith I. (Bartlett) C'usHiX(i, Secretary.
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RKASIKI'.K
To the nienihcrs of the Society of Desrcudanls of Robcii Jhirl/ti ( 1 ) of Plym-
outh, Muss., your Treasurer DUikcs this first report:
Annual diK'S fr
Receipts
70 nu'mlKTs, at $.50
EXPENUITIRES
Post-cards to use as Receipts
Express charges
2 Record Books, at S.25
Letter-heads
11 Packages stamped en\(.'l()pe!
500 Programs
Balance due Treasury
Resi)ertfull\-
Edith
$35 . 00
%2
00
40
50
4
50
5
04
19
25
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ubmitted,
I. Bartlett Cishixc, Treasure,
Report of the Historian
For year ending Anousf -i, l!i"!>, nt Plymouth
Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlel
1908 1910
" When a land rejects her legends,
Sees but falsehood in the past,
And its people view their sires
In the light of fools or liars,
'Tis a sign of its decline;
And its splendors can not last.
Branches that hut blight their roots.
Yield no sap for lasting fruits."
Scientific research has pro\ed that every individual is a
composite being, and comprises a combination of the indi-
\'idual characteristics and qualities of his ancestors; such being
the case it is a most natural and worthy desire to know who
one's ancestors were, and the nature of the qualities of mind
and body that it was possible for them to have transmitted
to us, their descendants. It is with mingled pride and pleas-
ure that we search the \'arious records to learn of the part
which our several ancestors took in the affairs of the early
days in the Colony. The importance of this research and
study cannot be over-estimated, for thereby future generations
are furnished with important facts, as well as preserving im-
portant data. Tradition, as we know, cannot be depended
upon; although tradition is often founded upon facts, it has
no weight as records. Then again a study of the \irtues and
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frailties of our ancestors, scr\es a double purpose; their \ir-
tues serve as examples for us to follow; and o\er their mis-
takes we draw the mantle of sympath>' and charity. ()f the
patriotism of our valiant pioneer ancestors we are justly
proud, and we honor and revere the memory of such an
ancestor as Robert Bartlet, who left an unsullied name and
who helped as a loyal and worthy citizen to lay the founda-
tion of our Commonwealth, and our country. It should be
an inspiration to make us mindful of our own obligations,
and to pass on to our posterity an unsullied record.
We regret that we know nothing of our Robert Bartlet's
boyhood and youth, luit we can imagine that he probably,
like the majority of the people of southern England, was
greatly attracted by the wonderful narratives of Captain
John Smith, Sir Francis Drake, and others, regarding New
England and its possibilities. Captain John Smith made a
famous map of this country, copies of which, with a list of
inducements which the new country offered, were sent to
the nobility and gentry of the southern counties of England.
There is no question but subsequent emigration was largely
induced by this act of Captain John Smith. Among the
number were many younger sons who were attracted by the
love of adventure, as well as the desire for wealth. Possibly
our own Robert may have been a younger son, who was eager
for new experiences, with high hopes of a possible fortune
besides. Can we not picture a well-favored youth, in the
early twenties, with bright and mirthful eyes, full of the vigor
of youth, hope, and eager anticipations, nothing daunted by
\ague stories of the perils and dangers experienced by the
Pilgrims at Plymouth during the terrible winter succeeding
their arrival in 1620, coming to the new world in search of the
luiknown.-'
With cheerful courage he embarked on the ship A}in,
in 1623, for this country, and found himself one of a large
and pleasant company, many of whom had similar aims to
his owm. Among the number w^as one who afterward dis-
tinguished himself as Governor of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony, Roger Conant, who, together with his wife and
infant son, was seeking a home in New England. It is safe
to believe that like young men of every age and clime Robert
was not indifferent to the sight of a pretty maiden; certain it
is, that when he saw sweet Mary Warren he w^as captivated
by her shy and winsome grace, and she in turn was not insen-
sible to the superior attractions and pleasant companionship
of her fellow traveler. The long voyage with its many real
and fancied perils, furnished him with vast and varied oppor-
tunities for a closer acquaintance than would be possible today
on OIK' of our niodcTii sli anishii)s. (ireat o|)i)orUinil\' was
I'urnisluHl Mrs. WarixMi to csliniatc Rohcrl's (U'sirahlc iiual-
itie's. Tlu' inolluM- of Mar\- was on Iut \\a>- lo join Iut hus-
band al PKniouth. It would srt'ui thai during the (lail\-
intcrrourse ot ninctx' (hiN's or more on shii)l)oard, Robert
must ha\e made a faxorable imi:)ression ui)on Mrs. Warren as
well as her daughter, for later on when Robert asked Richard
Warren for the hand of his daughter in marriage, his suit was
looked upon faxorabK', as we know .
Richard Warren's own historx' is full of interest; he was
a man ol wealth who had been a suc-cesstul merchant in Lon-
don wh;) ui);)n learning of the i)r()pi)sed departme of the
IMlgrims tor Plymouth in 1620, set sail with them, without
his family, with a \'ie\v to investmsnt and speculation in the
country to be settled. He was a staunch supporter of the
English Church, as had been his family for generations.
His lineage is of the oldest, identical with the peerage, through
royal lines. Although the records of Pl\-mouth C>)lon\-,
like all records of that period, are \ery incomplete, Richard
Warren it is known, was one of the principal men in the af-
fairs of the Colony at that time, and his advice was sought
in important financial matters. Just previous to the land-
ing of the Pilgrims he was one of the five Commissioners
chosen in the cabin of the Mayflower to embark in the small
boat, to seek a suitable landing-place, which resulted in their
spending the night on Clark's Island.
The ships Ann and Little James reached Plymouth
about the same time, having on board beside the general
body those who came on " their particular," meaning those
who paid their own expenses for the voyage, which entitled
them to being assigned lots of land. Robert Bartlet was
without doubt one of this number for, upon his arrival, he
was granted an acre of land upon Eel River in Plymouth.
The nearest approach to a feast ofTered to the new arrixals
consisted of a piece of fish without bread and a cup of fair
spring water. Robert was a cooper by occupation, sometimes
called wine cooper in the records, and was evidently a man
greatly respected. He served several times as a member of
the Grand Jury, also frequently on trial juries, and several
times as surveyor of highways. His name appears in the
records as a " freeman " in 1633. As a wedding gift, Mrs.
Warren presented Robert with a lot of land which, with
subsequent additions, was the legacy transmitted to his sec-
ond son, Joseph, situated in what is now Manomet. His
other children were: Benjamin, Rebecca. William, Mar\',
Sarah Elizabeth, Lydia, and Merc\-. In the records of the
town of Plymouth ma\' be seen a copy of his will.
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Where he Hes buried is not recorded, hut it is generalh'
believed that the space at the side of his son Joseph on Burial
Hill was his last resting-place. There is no record of the
death of his wife. It is interesting to know that undoubtedly
Robert Bartlet was a man of decided views, for it is recorded
that he was once summoned to Court for " speaking con-
temptuously of the practice of the singing of psalms." He
was sharply admonished, and allowed to depart after acknow-
ledging his fault.
It is to be sincerely hoped that one of the results of our
honored Society, composed of the descendants of Robert
Bartlet, will be the establishing of the proof of the relation-
ship, if any, existing between Robert Bartlet of Plymouth,
who arrived there in 1623, and the Bartlett family at Stop-
ham, County of Sussex, England.* This family dates back
to Adam de Barttelot, an esquire, who came from Normandy
into England, and was granted lands, and buried at Stopham
Church in 1100. John Barttelot, his descendant, captured
the castle of Fontenoy in France, in the fourteenth century,
and to him was granted the crest of the castle. The family
upon being granted the title of knighthood were given the
right to keep swans upon the river Avon, a right permitted to
but few families. The eldest line of Barttelots have lived at
Stopham since the Norman Conquest, and their remains are
buried in the tomb under the church. The complete rec-
ords of the Bartlet family since 1300 may be seen in the
church. The windows of this church are curious and very hand-
some, with coats-of-arms in stained glass and bearing the
Barttelot name. The coat-of-arms has eleven quarterings,
and there are two family crests. From time immemorial
the Barttelot family has held a high position among the
landed gentry, having always a Member of Parliament
represented by the family. The estate is entailed, the pre-
vious owner, Sir Walter Barttelot, was killed in the Boer War.
The present members of the family living upon the old estate
are most courteous to the representatives of the family in
America, who are always hospitably received. The Bart-
letts in America, whose claim to the lineage of the Barttelot
family at Stopham has been proved, are the descendants of
Richard and John who settled at Newbury in 1635, and
Thomas at Watertown. It is believed that there is good
authority for thinking that Robert Bartlet, our ancestor,
was connected with the family at Stopham, f Robert being
* Editor's Note. — It is generally conceded that all the Hartit'ts
coming to this country previous to 1700, are members of the Bail kit lani-
ily of Stopham, Sussex county, England, or its branches.
t See previous note of Editor on this point.
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a name occurriiii; in llu' t'arU' records. The iianu' ol l^arl-
lelt has been honoral il\- borne b\- Robert's deseendanl s,
st)nie of wlioni ha\e cU(Hiired fame and renown. We are
honored to claim among them the poet Longfellow, John
Bartlett, author of Bartlett's F'amiliar Quotations, and Wil-
liam Ashmead Bartlett, who married the noted English phil-
antliropist, Baroness Burdett C\jutts; also many clerg>'men and
a goodly number of true, upright men and women. Standing
here today and looking across the green, pleasant fields stretch-
ing away from the silver sands to the site of the happ\' and
peaceful home of Robert and Mary Bartlet, what feelings of
gratitude fill our hearts that we can thus celebrate tiieir
memory without a blot upon the family escutcheon.
During the past year I have answered forty-eight letters
besides writing to many supposed to be descendants of Rcjb-
ert Bartlet, also interviewing many persons, and doing all
in my powder to help them establish their line of descent by
visiting genealogical headquarters, etc., for them. I ha\e
sent announcements to thirty-five persons, some ot whom
have become members. Some who were positive they
belonged to this branch of the family have been shown their
mistake and found to belong to the line of Richard of New-
bury. I have spent much time, most agreeably, in preparing
this historical sketch of the life of Robert Bartlet and col-
lecting the preceding data.
The work as historian for the year 19f() was along the
same lines, but such was the popularity of the Society that
requests similar to the following were more than doubled,
increasing the amount of correspondence. Information was
desired of Aruna Bartlet, wdio married Remember Holmes
of Plymouth in 1776, or thereabout; this missing link
would estal^lish the connection of the in(|uirer with the line
of Robert Bartlet.
Descendants of a family of Bartletts living at Thetford,
Vt., in 1775, wished particular information that has not
been found. It is most encouraging to witness the growth of
our Society upon a broad and permanent basis, for which we
are gratefully indebted to our honored President, Lucius W.
Bartlett. At the close of my second year, owing to illness
in my family, I w-as unable to continue in office as Historian,
and w^as obliged to decline re-election, although urged to
retain the office.
Respectfully submitted,
Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet.
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On Deceml)er 30, 1909, the following Charter was adopted,
showing the stcad>' determination of the officers and mem-
bers of this Society to ri\'et closely the household.
CHARTER AM) BY-LAWS
S(kip:tv of the Descendants of Robert Baktlet of
Plymouth, Massachi'sf:tts
The first nu'fling of tlic suliscritxTs to the Agreement of Association
lo ccjnstitiite a corporation l>y the name of
Society of the Descendants of Robert B artlet of
Plymouth, Massachusetts
was hekl inirsuant to notice in the city of Boston, December 11, 1<K)9.
Lucius W. Bartlett was chosen chairman of the meeting. Ermina Bart-
lett Suhanek was elected temporary clerk, and after feeing duly sworn
presented to the meeting a set of by-laws which were unanimously adopted.
Officers were then elected as provided for by Article ?i, Section 1, of the
by-laws, as follows:
President, Lucius W. Bartlett, Hartford, Conn.
First Vice-President, Mercer V. Tilson, South Hanson, Mass.
Second Vice-President, Charles H. Bartlett, Dorchester, Mass.
Secretary-Treasurer, Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, Holyoke, Mass.
Historian, Sarah S. Bartlet, Roxbury, Mass.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Be it Known That whereas Lucius W. Bartlett, Ermina D. Bart-
lett Suhanek, Mercer V. Tilson, Chas. H. Bartlett, Sarah S. Bartlet, Anna
B. Johnson and Warren Tower Bartlett have associated themsehes with
the intention of forming a corporation under the name of the
Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet of
Plymouth, Massachusetts,
for the purpose of founding a permanent association of the Society of the
Descendants of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and of so
perpetuating the memory of a worthy and re\'ered pioneer and founder of
the Plymouth Colony, of uniting socially the descendants of said Robert
Bartlet of Plymouth, Massachusetts, of holding meetings and reunions of
the said descendants, of promoting historical, genealogical, and antiqua-
rian research concerning the said Robert Bartlet and his ancestors and de-
scendants, of compiling and disseminating, by publication or in any other
manner, such knowledge so obtained or otherwise acquired, concerning the
said Robert Bartlet and his ancestors and descendants, of obtaining,
holding, acquiring by gift, purchase, or otherwise owning, leasing, estab-
lishing, maintaining, mortgaging, selling, or otherwise disposing of monu-
ments and memorial buildings and memorial tablets to the memory of
the said Robert Bartlet, and any of his ancestors or descendants, buildings
for museums, buildings of historical interest, buildings adapted to the hold-
ing of reunions and meetings, or necessary or desirable for the furtherance
of the purposes of the corporation, and land for the erection or location of
such monuments, tablets, and buildings, or upon which are situated any
such monuments, tablets, or buildings, or which surround the same, and
personal i:)roperty of historical interest, or other property, real, personal,
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or mixed, that may be necessar\- or desirat>k' in rarryini; out the purjjoses
of the corporation, and ha\e complied with the pro\isions of the staiiiies
of this Commonwealth, in such case made and pro\ided, as a])pears from
the certificate of the proper ofificers of said corporation, duly appro\ ed 1)\
the Commissioner of Corporations, and recorded in this office:
Now, therefore, I, William M. Olin, Secretary of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that said Lucius W. Bartlett, Hrmina
D. Bartlett Suhanek, Mercer V. Tillson, Charles H. Bartlett, Sarah S.
Bartlet, Anna B. Johnson, and Warren Tower Bartlett, their associates
and successors, arc legally organized and established as, and arc hereby
made, an existing corporation under the name of the
Society of thi-: Desckxdaxts oi" R(M5Krt 11\rtlf.t ok
ri.VMOtTH, MASSACHtSKTTS,
with the powers, rights, and privileges, and subject to the limitations,
duties, and restrictions, which by law appertain thereto.
Witness my official signature hereunto subscribed, and
the Creat Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, here-
(skal) unto affixed, this thirtieth day of December, in the \'ear of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine.
William M. Olix,
.Sccn'Uiry of the Coiiniionwt'dltli.
BY-LAWS OF THE
Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet of
Plymouth, ALvssachusetts
ARTICLE I
Principal Office. — The principal office of this Societ\' shall be located
at Holyoke, Mass.
ARTICLE II
Members. — Any descendant of Robert Bartlet who came from
England in 1623 and settled in Phmouth, Massachusetts, may become a
member of this Society by making application therefor to the Secretary,
paying the membership fee and proving to the satisfaction of the Execu-
tive Board that the applicant for membership is a descendant of the said
Robert Bartlet.
ARTICLE III
Section 1. Officers. — The officers of the Society shall be a Presi-
dent, a First Vice-President, a Second Vice-President, a Secretary-Treas-
urer, a Historian, and an Executive Board consisting of the five officers
already named. All officers shall be elected by ballot at the annual meet-
ing of the Society and shall serve until their successors are elected and qual-
ify. Any two offices, except that of the President and First Vice-Presi-
dent, may be filled by one and the same member.
Sec. 2. President. — The President shall preside at all meetings of
the Society and of the Executive Board and shall be the chief executive
officer and head of the Society. He shall perform all such duties as are
incident to his office or which may be required of him by the Executive
Board.
Sec. 3. Vice-Presidents. — The Vice-Presidents shall have such
powers and shall perform such duties as may be assigned to them \)\ the
Executi\'e Board. In case of the absence or disability of the President,
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the (lutiL's of tlie office of President shall he performed by the First \'ice-
President.
Sec. 4. Secretary. — The Secretary shall keep the minutes of all pro-
ceedings and of the meetings of the Society and shall keep a record of all
votes. He shall attend to the giving of proper notice of all meetings and
shall in general perform all duties incident to his office. He shall be ex-
officio Secretary of the Executive Board.
Sec. 5. Treasurer. — The Treasurer shall collect, receive, and dis-
burse the funds of the Society under the direction of the Executive Board.
He shall keep regular books containing the accounts of the Society and shall
render statements of its financial condition at the annual meeting of the
Society and whenever required by the Executive Board. The Treasurer
shall give a bond to the Society' in such an amount and tenor as the Execu-
tive Board may require.
Sec. 6. Historia)i. — The Historian shall attend to the correspond-
ence of the Society, except the gi\ing of notices of meetings, and shall have
the custody of papers, documents, and other similar things of historical
interest to the Society, and shall perform such other duties incident to
the office as may be assigned to the Historian by the Executive Board.
Sec. 7. Executive Board. — The Executive Board shall have and
exercise full control and management of the affairs and business of the
Society, except such as are conferred by law or by these by-laws upon
the officers of this Society. The Executive Board may from time to time
adopt such rules and regulations not inconsistent with the law, or these
by-laws, as they shall determine. It may delegate any of its powers and
duties to any officer or committee consisting either of members of the
Executive Board or of the Society. It may by resolution appoint com-
mittees for furthering the interests of the Society and determine by res-
olution the powers and duties of such committees.
Sec. 8. Vacancies. — In case of vacancy occurring among the officers
and members of the Executive Board by reason of death, resignation or
otherwise, the remaining members of the Board may elect by majority
vote by ballot a successor who shall hold office for the unexpired term.
ARTICLE IV
Section 1. Annual Meetings. — The annual meeting of the members
of this Society shall be held in the State of Massachusetts at such place,
day, and hour as the Executive Board may determine, between the first
day of June and the first day of September. Four members shall con-
stitute a quorum at all meetings.
Sec. 2. Special Meetings. — Special meetings of the Society for any
purpose shall be held, whenever called by a majority vote of the entire
Executive Board, in the State of Massachusetts, at such place, day, and
hour as the said Board may determine. The resolution calling a special
meeting shall state the object of such meeting and a copy of such resolu-
tion shall be included in the notice to members.
Sec. 3. Notices. — Notice of any meeting stating the time and place
of said meeting shall be mailed by the Secretary, at least thirty days prior
to the meeting, to each member of the Society at his address as the same
appears on the books of the Society.
Sec. 4. Order of Business. — The order of business at meetings of the
Society shall be as follows:
1. Roll call, a quorum being present.
2. Reading of minutes of preceding meeting anfi action thereon.
3. Reports of officers.
4. Reports of committees.
5. Action upon reports of officers and committees.
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6. l^nfinishcd business.
7. Election of officers.
8. New business.
Sec. 5. Adjounnvciit. — If at any meeting duly called a (luorum sliould
fail to attend, those present may atijourn the meeting from time to time
without further notice until a quorum shall attend, and thereupon any
business may be transacted which might ha^•e been transacted at the meet-
ing as originally called, had the same been held.
Sec. 6. Elections. — At the election of officers the polls shall be
opened and closed and all ballots shall be received and counted b\- two
inspectors of election, who shall be appointed by the presiding officer of
the meeting, and who shall report to the Secretary of the meeting in writ-
ing the result of the ballot. All officers shall be elected by a majority of
the members present and voting. The Executive Board may, if it sees
fit, appoint a nominating committee whose duty it shall be to report to
the meeting a list of candidates nominated for the offices of the Society.
ARTICLE V
Section 1. Fiscal Year. — The fiscal year of the Society shall be
from June 1 to May 31, except that the first fiscal year shall be from the
date of the adoption of these by-laws to May 31, 1910.
ARTICLE VI
Section 1. Dues. — The membership fee which each member shall
pay on joining the Society shall be fifty cents and thereafter there shall
be an annual fee of fifty cents due and pa>'able on the first day of the cal-
endar month foll<j\\ing the annual meeting.
ARTICLE VII
Section 1. Meetings of the Executive Board. — The Executive Board
may fix and declare the time and place of holding its meetings.
Sec. 2. Calling of Meetings. — The meetings of the Executi\e Board
shall be held whenever called by the President of the Society and shall be
called by him whenever two or more members of the Board shall request
in writing that a meeting be held.
Sec. 3. Notices. — Notices of all meetings of the Executive Board
stating the time and place shall be mailed by the Secretary at least ten
days prior to the meeting to each member of the Board at his address as
the same appears on the books of the Society. A quorum of the Execu-
tive Board shall consist of a majority of the whole Board for the time
being in office.
Sec. 4. May Act Without Meetings. — The Executive Board shall
have power to act in the following manner: A resolution in writing signed
by a majority of all the members in office shall be deemed to be the action
of such Executive Board to the effect therein expressed, with the same force
and effect as if the same had been duly passed by the same vote at a duly
convened meeting, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary to record such
resolution in the minute books of the Society under the proper date,
provided that all members of the Board shall have received copies of such
resolution and shall have had a reasonable opportunity to communicate
with other members concerning the same.
ARTICLE VI 11
.\))icndnic)its. — These b\-laws ma\' be allerrd, amended, or repealed
at any annual or special meeting of the Society b\- a two-thirds \()te of
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the members present and voting, provided that the proposed alteration,
amendment, or resolution of repeal shall have been presented in writing
to the Secretary at least sixty days previous to the meeting. And it
shall be the duty of the Secretary to include in his notice of the meeting
sent to the memiiers of the Society a copy of the proposed alteration,
amendment, or resolution of repeal.
List of Charter Members
August 13, 1908 to August 27, 1909
No.
1 Mr. Lucius Warren Bartlett
2 Mrs. Zilpha J. Bartlett
3 Mrs. Ermina D. Bartlett Suhanek
4 Mr. David L. Bodfish .
5 Mr. Ephraim Diman Bartlett
6 Mrs. Edith I. Bartlett Gushing
7 Mrs. Eugenia ¥. B. Lovell .
8 Mr. Henry Marshall Bird .
9 Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet
10 Miss Sarah B. Bartlet
11 Mr. Charles H. Bartlett
12 Mrs. Mary M. Farry .
13 Miss Isabelle M. Bartlett
14 Miss Edith E. Bartlett
15 Miss Marcia J. Bartlett
16 Mr. John A. Bartlett .
17 Miss Helen A. Bird
18 Rev. Ephraim H. Bartlett .
19 Mrs. Elizabeth Bird Mann .
20 Mr. Horace A. Bird .
21 Mr. Frederick H. Bird
22 Miss Anna E. Bartlett
23 Miss Helen L. Bartlett
24 Mr. Warren Tower Bartlett
25 Mrs. Alice Bartlett Forbes .
26 Miss Barbara Hyde Forbes .
27 Mr. Arthur Lucius Bartlett
28 Mrs. Leota Grav Bartlett
29 Mrs. Emma B. thrall .
30 Mr. Oliver J. Thrall .
31 Mrs. Flora B. mdch .
32 Mr. W^ Leroy Ulrich
ii *Mrs. Alice P. Burdick
34 Mr. Herman Packard
35 Mrs. Mary Carr Packard
36 Mr. Francis Bartlett, P. (). Box 14
37 Mr. Simeon A. Bird
38 Mr. Robert W. Bartlett
39 *Mrs. Vesta Bartlett Tower
40 Mr. Theodore Parker Tower
41 *Mr. Mercer V. Tilson
42 Mr. John Q. Tillson
43 Mr. Francis Bartlett
44 Mrs. .Addie Waite Colgan .
45 Mrs. F. Madelyn B. Hoyt .
* Deceased.
Windsor, Conn.
Windsor, Conn.
Holyoke, Mass.
Palmer, Mass.
Plymouth, Mass.
Middleboro, Mass.
Whitman, Mass.
Stoughton, Mass.
Roxbury, Mass.
Roxbury, Mass.
Dorchester, Mass.
Dorchester, Mass.
Brockton, Mass.
Brockton, Mass.
Brockton, Mass.
Brockton, Mass.
East Bridgewater, Mass.
Watervillc, Vt.
Stoughton, Mass.
Brockton, Mass.
Brockton, Mass.
Hartford, Conn.
Salt Lake City, I'lah
Hartford, Conn.
Hartford, Conn.
Hartford, Conn.
Springfield, Mass.
Springfield, Mass.
Windsor, Conn.
Windsor, Conn.
Hartford, Conn.
Hartford, Conn.
Hartford, Conn.
Brockton, Mass.
Brockton, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Campello, Mass.
New Bedford, Mass.
Cummington, Mass.
Cummington, Mass.
South Hanson, Mass.
New Haven, Conn.
Manomet, Mass.
Indianapolis, Ind.
New Haven, Conn.
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46 Mr. William B. Browiir
47 Mrs. Rel)(.'cca C Booiner
48 Mr. E. Paran Bartlelt
49 Miss Marguerite Bartletl
50 Mr. Lerov C. Bartlelt
51 Rev. William P. Bartlett
52 Miss Marv A. Tower .
53 Mrs. Angcline T. Haskins .
54 Miss Edith A. Haskins
55 Mr. Joseph B. White .
56 Mrs. Susan J. Hopkins
57 Miss Mary A. Hopkins
58 Mrs. Amanda B. Soule
59 Mr. Loring Robbins
60 Mrs. Polly McFarlin Nauman
61 Mrs. Elizabeth B. Ames Carve
62 Miss L. Florence Bartlett
63 Mrs. Minnie B. Harlow
64 Miss Florence J. Harlow
65 Mr. Arthur H. Churchill
66 Mr. Sampson McFarlin
67 Mrs. Anna Bartlett fohnson
Total, 07.
BLukinlon, Mass.
Campello, .Mass.
Manomet, .Mass.
Worlhingtcin, Mass.
Marshfield Cenler, :
Plymouth, \. 11.
W'orthinglon, Mass
Springtield, .Mass.
S|)ringfield, \hiss.
North Hanson, Ma;
Wrxniouth, Mass.
\^\■^nl.ulth, Mass.
Middlehoro, Mass.
North Auburn, Me.
Plymouth, Mass.
Elmwood, Mass.
Belmont, Mass.
Whitman, Mass.
Whitman, Mass.
Montrlair, N. J.
Middlehoro, Mass.
Dorchester, Mass.
THE THIRD ANNUAL REITNION
OF THE Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet,
June 16, 1910
The Third Annual Reunion of The Societ\- of the Descend-
ants of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass., will be held in
the chapel of the Methodist Church, corner of Court and
Brewster Streets, Plymouth, Mass., on Thursday-, June 16,
1910. The chapel is only a short walk from the railroad sta-
tion and right on the line of the electric cars. It will be
open all day for the convenience of those who attend.
At 10.30 a. m. the meeting will come to order for tlie
transaction of business as follows:
1. Opening exercises.
2. Reading of the Secretary's record of tlie pre\'ious
meeting.
3. Reports of officers and conniiittees.
4. New business.
5. Election of officers.
At 12.30 Itmch will l)e serxed in Weslevan Hall,
Ladies' Aid Sociel\- o
plate, fift\- cents.
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Methodist C1tiu-ch. Price
ine
per
At the last reunion it was \'oted that a suitable memorial
be placed upon the site of the home of Robert and Mary
(Warren) Bartlet. It is with great satisfaction we are able
to state that all the detail work has been accomplished and
the memorial will be completed b\' the time of the meeting.
It also gives us much pleasure to announce that Mrs.
Marian Longfellow, a member of our society and a niece of
the poet Longfellow, who was himself a descendant of Robert
Bartlet, will address the meeting by request, her subject
being, " Our Pilgrim Ancestors and the Debt We Owe Them."
After the lunch will be the address, remarks by members
and others, and a visit to the memorial by those who desire.
All of the Bartletts are invited to come and bring their
friends with them. It is hoped that every descendant will
make this 16th day of June, the most beautiful month in
the \ear, a real home-coming to the old historic town of Plym-
outh, the parent homestead of our Bartlett family.
Lucius Warrex Bartlett, President.
Hartford, Conn.
Mrs. Ermixa Bartlett Suhaxek,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Holyoke, Mass.
The President welcomed the Society of the Descendants
of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass., at the opening of the
exercises in the Methodist Church at Plymouth on June 16,
1910, in a few chosen words.
He also gave reports on the incorporating of the Society
and on the privilege of erecting a memorial to our ancestor
Robert Bartlet, and Mary W^arren his wife, which appear in
these proceedings.
Report of the Secretary
Secretary's Report of meeting held August 27, 1909,
(read by Mrs. Suhanek).
White Horse Beach, Manomet, was the Mecca for about
fourscore descendants of Robert Bartlet. Nature was lav-
ish and provided an ideal day for the Second Annual Re-
union of the Society which was held at Hotel Crescent. It
was a day in which to rejoice, so perfect were the atmospheric
conditions.
The morning was spent in registering, introductions, and
renewing ac^iuaintance. Many walked to the old Bartlet
House, which was built in 1680 by Robert's son Joseph, and
is still owned by the Bartletts.
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At 1.30 the conipdiu marclu'd to llu- (lining-room with
hearts and steps attune to music. A satisfactory (Hnner was
served, after which a group photograph was taken in front of
the hotel. The part\' returned to the dining-room and the
clan was called to order 1)\- the president, Mr. Lucius Warren
Bartlett.
In the absence of Mrs. Edith I. Gushing, the Secretary,
Mrs. Eugenia F. Bartlett Lovell was appointed Secretary
pro tern.
Prayer was offered by Rew Walter R. Bartlett of Dighton,
Mass.
An address of welcome b\ the President followed, in which
he extended greeting to his kindred and told of " The Early
Days of the Bartlett Family," showing how the descendant
had played a noble part in the de\elopment of the country.
Mrs. Anna Bartlett Johnson contributed a poem descrip-
tive of Robert the ancestor. •
The address in full, also a newspaper account of the meet-
ing, with other items, are appended to this report as they may
be of interest in the future.
The Secretary's record of the previous meeting was read
by Mrs. Eugenia F. Bartlett Lo\'ell, and accepted.
The report of the Historian, Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet, was
submitted and accepted.
The efificiency of the services of the President, Secretary,
Treasurer, and Historian was recognized by a vote of thanks.
The President asked for an expression as to the time and
place of the next meeting and after some suggestions it was
voted that the matter be left wuth the executive committee.
The matter of annual dues was considered. Voted, that
the dues remain the same as last year, fifty cents per annum.
A letter recei\'ed from Mr. Charles H. Warren of Pro\i-
dence, R. I., a descendant of looth Richard Warren and Rob-
ert Bartlet, was read, in which he gave the Society permis-
sion to place a monument to mark the site of the home of
Robert and Mary (Warren) Bartlet which was situated upon
Mr. Warren's land. It was \'oted to accept the ofTer and that
the Society proceed to erect a suitable memorial.
No further business being offered, upon motion a commit-
tee was appointed to sul:)niit a list of persons for officers for
the ensuing year. The following list was sul^mittcd and unan-
imously elected.
President, Mr. Lucius Warren Bartlett, Hartford, Conn.
First Vice-President, Mr. Mercer V. Tilson, South Hanson,
Mass.
Second Vice-President, Mr. Charles H. Bartlett, Dorches-
ter, Mass.
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Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Ermina Bartlett Suhanek,
Holyoke, Mass.
Historian, Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet, Roxbury, Mass.
Mrs. Edith L Bartlett Gushing, the former most efficient
Secretary, in a letter to the President, positi\'ely declined to be a
candidate for re-election on account of her many other duties.
It was further voted that the officers elected constitute
the executive committee and that they be empowered to fill
all vacancies on the Board. Voted to adjourn.
Respectfully submitted,
Euc.ENiA F. Bartlktt Lovei.l, Secretary pro ton.
Treasurer's Report for 1909 10
Receipts
Balance from last report
Membership fees
Sale of Badges
Total
Balance due Treasurer
S2
41
40
00
15
95
S58
36
203
63
S261.99
EXPEXDITIRES
To Coat-of-Arms and drawing for same
Envelopes and postage ....
Bill for badgos ......
Placard and information at station
200 Receipts
800 Letter-heads
" 17 Packages stamped envelopes
300 Charter and By-Laws ....
200 Circular letters .....
Notary certificate, .50, and Registration fee, .50
Record book ......
Expense on Charter .....
" Expenses for Memorial Tablet:
Expense to Plymouth, May 5th .
Bill to Mr. Mercer V. Tilson
Clark & F"innev ....
Tablet
Ellis & Clarke ....
" Ephraim D. Bartlett
" Smith, Lindsley Co.
Respcctfulh- submitted,
P^RMIN.V B. ScH.\:
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27
11
05
1
85
2
75
4
50
9
24
13
75
2
50
1
00
1
00
y
56
15
00
14
34
108
43
22
40
17
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8
85
8
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$261.99
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The President called attention to an interesting relic-
exhibited b\- Mr. Kiihraini I). Bartlclt. ll was an iron hre-
back, bearing the date 1600. A little histor\- concerning it
nia\- be of interest.
This tire-back was imjiorted from Kngland b\- Joseph
Bartlet (2) son of Robert Bartlet (1) who came to Plymonth
in the ship ^7?;? in 1623. Joseph (2) married abont 1660
and went to Manomet Ponds (now, 1880. Sonth Phmonth)
and there built a house and settled. In 1680 Josei)h (2)
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built another house at Manomet, and years later the original
house came into possession of Charles Dana Bartlett (8) and
Hosea C. Bartlett (8) sons of Charles Bartlett (7) who lived
in the house about fift\- >'ears. Years later Hosea C\ Bart-
lett (8) tore down his half of the house and Charles Dana
Bartlett (8) moved his half farther up the road, where it is
still standing today (June 16, 1910). In taking down the
chimney, this fire-back was discovered and was sold in 1880
by Charles Dana Bartlett to A. M. Harrison. United States
Coast Survey, and left by him to Miss Sarah Achsah Bartlett,
of PIvmouth, Mass.
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Report of Chairman of Committee ox Memorial
To the officers and members of the BartJett Society: Your
Committee considered that the first and essential thing to be
done was to secure the legal right to the use of the land where
this memorial was to be placed, with a right of way thereto.
The first requirement made by the owners of the land
was that we should establish to their satisfaction that the
spot that we had selected was, as we claimed, the site of the
home of Robert and Mary (Warren) Bartlet.
Mr. Mercer V. Tilson, our Vice-President, at some expense
and a great deal of time, looked up all the land records per-
taining thereto, made surveys of the land, and a map draw-
ing of the same, which upon careful examination by Mr.
Warren, was accepted by him as conclusive evidence that we
were right in respect to our clairri.
During the progress of this work, Mr. Warren had made a
sale of the land whereon this site was located, to Mr. Charles
A. Stone, of Plymouth, upon condition that Mr. Stone should
carry out the agreement, which he had practically made with
the officers of the Bartlet Society.
On Monday, May 2, 1910, your President and Vice-
President met in Boston at the office of Mr. Stone's attorney
and an agreem.ent was made whereby a deed has been given
and recorded upon the Plymouth Land Records, which gives
to the Society the use of a piece of land one hundred feet
square, whereon this site is located, with a right of way
thereto so long as the Corporation remains in existence.
Your committee concluded that a boulder with a tablet
inscription placed thereon would be most appropriate and
least expensive. At this time. May 2d, there remained but
a little more than a month in which to complete the work
before this meeting.
It is very gratifying to announce that it is complete in
every detail and our artist has an excellent photograph of
the memorial here for your inspection. Your committee
believe this memorial worthy of those it is intended to com-
memorate and of the Society that erected it.
The total cost, including all expenses connected there-
with, has been $186.
Respectfully submitted,
L. W. Bartlett, Chairman of the Committee.
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Boulder Erected by the Society
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OUR IMLCxRlM ANCKSrORS AND THK DKBT
\VK OWK THl^M
Address del ivcTi'd on jLine 16, l')l(), lu'fore the Societv of Descendants
of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass.'
Bv Marian L()X(;fkli.()\v
We are gathered here today, members of the Bartlet t
family, descendants of Robert Bartlet and Mary Warren,
his wife, to tender them our affeetionate remembrance and
to renew ties of friendship.
It matters not what ma\' be our name today or what other
blood may run in oiu' \eins beside that ot the Bartlet-Warren
blood, for we are all of Pilgrim stock and we are here on this
special day to honor this line.
For the short time I shall address you I ask you to consider
the subject of " Otir Pilgrim Ancestors and the Debt We Owe
Them."
It was no JKizard that brought the Pilgrim to New Eng-
land, but the unerring hand of Providence willing that they,
truly the chosen people of that generation, should come to
the shores of New England rather than, as was first planned,
to that of Virginia.
Let us consider the Pilgrim collectixely before we turn lo
any one family.
It has been said, and justly so, that "In the cabin of the
Mayflower the Pilgrims created a goxernment founded upon
the eternal truth of the divine rights of humanity, and not
upon the baseless assumption of the di\ine rights of kings."
In the common use of the terms " pilgrim " and " puritan "
there has been until within a comparatively recent date, much
confusion and a \cr\ hazy conception has remained in the
minds of many as to wherein that diiTerence la\'.
Defining the term " pilgrim," otie author says:
"The Pilgrims comprised all members of the Separatists' church of
l.eyden who voted for the migration to America, whether they were able
to go there themselves or not; together with such others as joined their
church from England. Membership, intended or actual, in the Pilgrim
church was the first qualification; emigration to New England was the
second. This membership included the Rev. John Robinson and family,
who were unable to leave Leyden. Also thirty-five members of the Ley-
den church, Leyden, Holland, arriving in Plymouth, New England, in
the Fortune in November of 1621 and sixty who arrived in the Ajui (of
whom our Robert Bartlet was one) and the Little James in August, 1623;
the thirty-five with their families who arrived in the Mayflower's second
voyage, in August, 1629, and the sixty who arrived in the Handmaid in
May, 1630. It excluded all members of the Pilgrim church who had no
wish to go to America; all hired men who went out in the Mayflower and
did not become members of the church in the Old Colony. So we see
that all the Mayflower passengers were not Pilgrims."
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Dr. AlexandeT \'(jung sa\s:
"Tliosc wlio came in tlic first tlirrr ships, 1 lu' Afay /lower, Drceniber,
1620, the Fortune, November, 1621, tiie Ann and the Little James, August,
1623, are distinctly called the Old Comers or F~orefathers, although between
1620 and 1640 upward of 22,000 i'uritans sailed from the English and
Dutch ports."
Here we find Dr. \'()iiiit; classiiio thciii all as I^tiritaiis,
which is a mistake.
William (irifiis says:
" The Pilgrims separated from the church and state. They believed
in the right and power of Christian people to govern themselves, and
the>' belie\"ed this when it was dangerous, even in England, to broach
such an idea. The>- were hunted out of their land into the Dutch
Republic."
Another historian sa\s:
" Many of them were men of education and rank; eminent !>■ free
from the low and degrading \ices of the statesmen of that day; bowed
the knee to none but God."
It is this selfsame spirit that we see in a marked degree
in the better type of the New Englander of today. The
courage of his convictions and the strength to assert and main-
tain what he believes to be right in the face of every obstacle.
It was this unflinching spirit; this placing of right before
every other consideration ; this self-abnegation that enabled
our ancestors to place New England in what is now the fore-
front of all that makes for the betterment of this country and
this age.
The president of one of our New England colleges said,
at a banquet given by the Society of Mayflower Descend-
ants of Massachusetts several years ago, that it is to the
descendants of the Pilgrim and the Puritan that New England
must look for power to right the political abuses of the day.
Of the Pilgrim it has been said that " the Log of the Aiay-
flower," as many persons persist in calling Bradford's Journal,
which was taken from the Old South Mccting-House at
Boston, during the Revolution, and carried to England In-
the British, but restored to us in 1889 by P2ngland, was the
Book of Genesis in the history of Massachusetts.
And here let me speak of the belief, so hard to combat,
that the Pilgrims came to this new world primarily for the
right to worship God as they chose. That might apply to
the Puritan; but not to the Pilgrim; but it seems to be a
fixed idea in the heads of many. The Pilgrim had religious
freedom in Holland; he was not compelled to come to Amer-
ica to worship according to his own dictates.
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The Pilgrims had smother and a \ery urgent reason for
striking out into a new country and being alone as to race.
They saw their daughters and sons intermarrying with the
people of Holland; they feared that in time the good old
English blood of which they were so justly proud, would
dwindle to a mere thread to be swallowed up eventually in
that of the foreigner. Therefore, to preserve their nationality
pure and unmixed and to bring their children up true to that
blood they sought the new world.
This is the side of the question which is lost sight of often,
indeed generally.
Now that we have considered the stock from which Rob-
ert Bartlet and his wife sprung, for I think we should remem-
ber the Pilgrim Mothers just as much as the Pilgrim Fathers,
let us turn our attention to the Bartlet family and the descend-
ants of the man and woman whom we honor today. Their
children are we, and across the centuries that spread between,
our thoughts turn lovingly today.
The name of Bartlet now generally, though not always
spelled with two t's, has ever been an honored one in his-
tory, and that of Warren we know came from the highest
rank, being traced back to William I of England, known as
William the Conqueror.
You need no word of mine to testify to the positions of
honor and trust held by many of the name of Bartlet. Our
first ancestor of the name, who came over in the good ship
Ann in August of 1623, has a long line of whom, could he
know them, he might well feel proud. To literature, to sci-
ence, and to the professions has his blood been given. The
great-grandson of Robert Bartlet, Samuel Bartlett, was the
great-grandfather of the poet Longfellow, who is as much
loved for the beauty and purity of his life as for his
genius. The great-great-granddaughter of Robert Bartlet,
through another branch of the Bartlets, was Elizabeth Bart-
let, wife of General Peleg Wadsworth of Revolutionary fame.
She shared his camp life whenever possible, and her first
child, a son, died an infant in the camp at Dorchester Heights
previous to the evacuation of Boston by the British. The
courage and resource of Elizabeth (Bartlet) Wadsworth equalled
that of her gallant husband; she was with him when he was
captured by the British, after an attack wherein he fought
at great odds for his life, but where he was taken prisoner
after being wounded and was carried to Fort George at Cas-
tine, Me. Her comfort and cheering words upheld him as
he was taken from her sight.
Another notable Bartlet was Dr. Josiah Bartlet, of New
Hampshire, a physician of high standing; a signer of the
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Declaration of Independence; a delegate to the C\)ntinental
Congress, and who had the honor of pkuing his name just
after that of the President to the paper \oting in fa\or of
that document.
A poet has said of him:
" Amid those picked and chosen men,
' ■ Than his, who here first drew his breath,
No firmer fingers held the pen,
That wrote for Hberty or death."
Another son of this line was Thomas Bartlet, who died
in 1805, who had been a lieutenant-colonel under (General
Stark and who w'as at the surrender of Burgoyne. In later
days he was speaker of the New Hampshire House of Repre-
sentatives.
There was John Russell Bartlett, born at Prox'idence,
R. I., on October 23, 1815, whom President Zachary Taylor
appointed to fix the boundary line between the United States
and Mexico, and who was Secretary of State of Rhode Island
from 1855-1872.
It is said that in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65,
there w'ere eighty-six Bartletts among the commissioned
otTficers. Of these, William Francis Bartlet, the youngest
major-general in the Civil War, attained that honor when but
twenty-five years of age, rising, we are told, from the ranks.
A statue was erected in his memory in 1904.
Another noted name is that of Truman H. Bartlett, the
well-known sculptor; also Samuel Colcord Bartlett, presi-
dent of Dartmouth College in 1877.
It is likely that I have not mentioned one-twentieth of the
good men and true who have been an honor to the name.
Judge, then, if vou have not reason to be proud of the name of
Bartlet.
Our Pilgrim Ancestors ! what do we not owe them !
Their clean, true outlook upon life which should be, and I
trust is ours. Their unfailing response to the " duty nearest
at hand," without which response the duties that may fol-
low can not be adequately or acceptably performed; the
throwing into the crucible of the common good of the Col-
ony all that duty demanded; the unwavering will that or-
dained that all things necessary to the welfare and existence
of the colony should be accomplished.
Theirs was the struggle, the privation, the suffering of
the pioneer; ours the harvest that has grown from their
efforts.
It is particularly fitting, then, that those of us present
should set apart one day of the year on which to observe
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these exercises of appreciation of our Pilgrim ancestry in
general, and of our Robert Bartlet ancestry in particular.
Many of us represent, doubtless, still other descent from
that little band of Mayfloiver passengers, but today we are
all Bartlets.
John Alden has his Society of " The Alden Kindred of
America," in which Priscilla is an honored figure. The
Bradford family, the Brewster family, the Winslow family,
and others call to their children to come, at least once a year,
to their home in Plymouth by the sea. And so we come to
Plymouth, Mass., to w^alk through her quaint streets and to
people them in imagination with the men and women who
first trod these shores. Yet the Plymouth of today would
be a vast and unknown region to the Pilgrims of 1620-30.
Vivacious Priscilla Molines, the Huguenot damsel, whose
birthright has been taken from her in the inscription on the
memorial shaft in this town; and fair Mary Chilton; grave
John Alden, and fiery Myles Standish; Elder Brewster,
with locks of snow, and the good Governor Bradford, all
seem to greet us as we wander through the old town. That
they were sad or sour of demeanor I deny. Nor did they
confine the colors of their garments to blacks and greys and
dull browns.
We know now that the term " sad " as applied to color
meant dark and did not mean what we have supposed earlier.
It comprised the rich dark purples and red, also.
We hear, frequently, that this or that article " came over
in the Mayflower, " (I know that has a familiar sound to you !)
but such articles as our forefathers and foremothers brought
with them to the new world w^ere, as a general thing, such as
the average emigrant of decent standing would have been
likely to bring. The very simplicity of their surroundings
and their possessions brought them into closer touch with
Nature and God. And so it is well that we should make a
pilgrimage to Plymouth by the sea, at least once a year, that
we may carry back to our busy lives the memory of that sim-
plicity and of something sweeter and truer and purer than
comes into our daily lot the rest of the year.
Particularly is it right that we should seek to honor our
Pilgrim ancestors rather than to make cheap capital for our-
selves by claims of " uncommon descent " or personal glori-
fication, and herein lies our debt.
Let us remember
They that on glorious ancestry tiilar^i'
Proclaim their debt instead of their dischar
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It is not sufficient that w i' should si)rc'a(l al)roa(l that \()U,
anil >c)ii. and I ha\c descended from i;x)od and noble men and
women; we must stri\e to uphold, as a beacon, the li\es of
the Pilgrims, that like unto the rays streaming from the
lighthouse set upon the rock, pouring their glory over the tur-
bulent wa\es and guiding into safe harbor some storm-tossed
passenger, others may profit therby.
Our good old English ancestry is sometliing of which to
be proud. The solid ciualities of bod\- and mind inherited
therefrom shall stand us in good stead, as the\' ha\e alwa\s
done, in time of stress.
The descendants of Robert Bartlet and Mar\- Warren, his
wife, must not be slaves nor ne'er-do-wells, nor criminal in
any respect. Noblesse oblige, that grand old French motto
(and Mary Warren also was of French descent) is as incimi-
bent upon us today as in the days of the earl\- struggles of our
Pilgrim ancestors.
The ermine is said to die if aught soils its fur. Fhe
descendants of the Pilgrim should rather welcome death than
dishonor of any description.
I know this may be considered a strained \iew; that it
may be said that we cannot li\'e in this world as if we were
already inhabitants of heaven; but, believe me, the paltry
concessions to self-gain, self-advancement, self in any of its
aspects, is fatal to the spirit of the Pilgrim. His was not to
l)e the " fulness of the earth "; rather was he, the Pilgrim
in fact as well as in name, one to whom of necessity must
come hardship, endurance, lack of luxury; to whom life was
but a sojourn at best, and rest a far-away goal.
What is our Debt ^ I take it to be that we must not only
hold their example and lives up to the emulation of others
but that we must so li\'e, ourselves, that we may be worth}'
of the inestimable gift of our Pilgrim heritage !
And especially do we owe a dut>' toward the " stranger
within our gates " ; to those other emigrants to our land, igno-
rant, illiterate, stolid, seeking the betterment of their former
lot from a selfish xiewpoint only; susceptible to influence,
howe\-er, whether good or bad, and whose children are to
i)ear the responsibilities as well as the joys of American citi-
zenship in the future.
Methinks could Robert Bartlet speak to us in the flesh
today he would ask that we, secure in our own honored de-
scent from men and women of sterling \irtue, should hold out
a helping hand to these emigrants of a later day who come to
us in poverty and rags; in ignorance, and, alas, ofttimes in
\ice; he would admonish us to polish the rough stone as does
the lapidary until what at first seemed low and \-ile and use-
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less shall become a jewel worthy the setting in the diadem of
our glorious republic.
Consider well if this be not one way of paying in part the
Debt we owe our Pilgrim ancestors? The things of this earth,
the things most valued in this day of material objects —
wealth, position, consideration, preferment, all sink into
insignificance when we look back to the Pilgrim to whom all
these things were as dross compared with the dignity, the
beauty, the holiness of effort to live an upright life acceptable
to his Maker, and to be a helper to well-living rather than to
be a cumberer of the earth.
Through all time that solitary but dignified figure of the
Pilgrim stands forth an object of veneration and emulation
and shall so stand while this Republic lives.
He, together with his brother, the Puritan, framed the
laws that have made these New England states of ours fa-
mous for good government and equity. The country town-
meeting, said to be the best form of government in the world,
was brought by the Pilgrim from Holland and earlier had
flourished in Germany. In the " town-meeting " every abuse
is aired and every member present has the opportunity to
place his grievance before the tribunal. There was no " one-
man power" there, but the right and the power of indi\'idual
conception of duty, and from that but one step to its enforce-
ment.
One of the most startling features of the day is the sudden
rise to power of the foreign element, and the shameless traffic
in offices and emoluments. A rise to power brought about by
the excess of votes among those who are not fit as yet for the
franchise; and, I regret deeply to say, by the supineness of
the better class element on " voting day."
Boston, the heart of the former Puritan settlement, has
fallen a prey to the invader and that because of his numbers
and his determination to attain power no matter by what
means, and to hold it, regardless of the rights and best inter-
ests of the whole; a determination all the stronger because
balked in his native land. I do not care what his nativity,
the uneducated but rapacious emigrant is a menace to Amer-
ican interest and American life.
It becomes us, then, to strive earnestly to educate, in every
direction possible, the youthful immigrant in patriotism and
love of the new country which has received him, irrespective
of ties across the sea. He must be taught and must learn that
having chosen the United States as his own he may not
scheme and connive and seek the interest of the country he
has forsaken, though it be the land of his birth, to the detri-
ment of the one he has adopted. That his first lo\'alt>' is to
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these Ignited States; that he can not sltxc two masters; that
to antagonize and attempt to embroil this countr\- witli others
for the benefit of his former country may not and shall not be
permitted; that he must accord to other immigrants the rights
he would often reserve for himself alone. To accomplish this, we
must reach the children, for the older men and women, who will
in time pass away, have come to this country purely for self-
aggrandizement and nothing else; w^hile their offspring may be
taught the pure love of country and honor for the flag under
which they live, that no other sentiment can equal. This,
surely, is a part of the Debt we owe our Pilgrim ancestors.
But while we are keen to note the plants that should flour-
ish in our neighbor's garden we must see to it that we keep
our own in order. We must weed out all that is un-American;
we must trim our hedges so that they shall present an orderly
appearance, bearing no ill-judged criticisms of others to offend ;
no preaching to others what we do not ourselves follow.
A pure democracy — "the greatest good for the great-
est number," should be our motto, and in this I do not refer
to politics, but to ethics. There was no favor shown the
rich as against the poor among our Pilgrim ancestors. It was
the man, not his worldly possessions that decided their valua-
tion of him. But they required that he be a man, a. freeman,
in order to be a church-member and an ofiice-holder. Thus
they differentiated between the mental attainments, and the
sodden indifference of the one who had no aim, no incenti\'e
but self-gain. They desired no weaklings; no incompetents
in their fold; theirs was the gauge of moral endow^ment, not
the possession of temporal wealth. Therefore they never
fell into the error of worshipping Baal and never served their
God with one hand and the world with the other.
Many jests are told at the expense of the Pilgrim and Plym-
outh Rock.
" Plymouth Rock " was a term cited as a quality which
would bear any amount of hard usage and come out intact.
Years ago it was adopted by a firm of tailors and was ap-
plied to a certain garment which was warranted to stand any
amount of wear and tear. The boy who was provided with
a pair of " Plymouth Rocks " might defy Fate and, what was
more to the point, an irate father with impunity !
" Plymouth Rock " was also given to a special breed of
fowls. This reminds me of the story of the man who, dining
at a certain restaurant in one of our large cities, called the
waiter to him and said:
" What kind of chicken do you call this, waiter? "
" That, sir," replied the waiter, " is I believe a 'PKmouth
Rock'."
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The man said: " Ah, I'm glad it's got some historic inter-
est. I thought it was an ordinary cobblestone ! "
And, again, to that story which ex-Representative Samuel
Powers of Massachusetts is so fond of telling, and of which I
shall quote only the concluding portion, as you have doubt-
less heard it.
An inquisitive Yankee was asking innumerable questions
ofasomewhat pompous Southerner who had answered the ques-
tions to a considerable extent. After a while the Virginian
felt that he had given the Yankee all the data concerning his
own private afifairs which his questioner had any right to
know, if not more, said:
" And where, sah, may I ask, do you come from.-' "
" Plymouth, Massachusetts," was the reply.
" Well, sah," responded the Southerner with considerable
feeling, " if Plymouth Rock had landed upon the Pilgrims,
instead of the Pilgrims upon Plymouth Rock, it would have
been better for the world in general and for the South in
l)articular."
Which shows that there are conflicting \iews both as to
the Pilgrim and Plymouth Rock.
1 am not sure of the exact words of this story, as I heard
Mr. Powers tell it some years ago, but I have retained a re-
membrance of the essential points and I have no doubt that
he is telling the anecdote still !
If the ever-increasing evils of the age; the sale of offices;
the bribery of a legislator; the purchase of a judiciary; the
crushing out of the lives of the poor; the speculation in the
necessities of life, such as wheat, milk, and other articles,
is to be successfully fought, it must be by the renewed spirit
of the Pilgrims; it must be an outgrowth of the ardor of jus-
tice that is a large ingredient of the blood of those ancestors of
ours now coursing through our veins. No people on the face
of the earth ever more fully demonstrated the fact that " Right
and one make a Majority," than did our Pilgrim ancestors.
They never paused to consider whether any act they con-
templated was " politic"; whether they would be in the end
a gainer or loser by it. No; their first thought was " is it
right?" That proven to their satisfaction all else was of
little mcjment.
You may sa>', " But they had so little temptation to do
wrong. " How may we judge their temptations? Tempta-
tion comes from within, not without, and the whole kingdom
of e\il as well as of good is within each one of us.
The Pilgrim's safety lay in his determination to do " the
dut\' nearest him," as I ha\"e said, and after that all was clear.
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Let us, then, as mc i;ather here, toda>', rcsoKe each one
to stud>- more closch' that lo\el\- singleness of purpose e\ inced
l)\- the Pilgrim, and of which our own Rol)ert Bartlel was
an exam]')le, and we will find life in all its lines easier, sini|)ler,
and more satisfying.
I fear I ma>' ha\e made m\- Utile talk more sombre than
the occasion deserxed, and that where I siiould " liaxe sung
a song," I ha\e "preached a sermon"; hut howex er that
ma\- be, 1 trust that >()u will belie\e that I am entireh' one w ilh
\-ou in >our aims and wishes for the due appreciation of our
honored ancestors, Robert Bartlet and Mary Warren, his
wife, and for the continual well-being and closer friendship
of The Societ>' of The Descendants of Robert Bartlet of
Phmouth, Mass.
Marian Lox(;I'Ello\v.
FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING
Notice is herby gix'en that the Fourth Annual Meeting
and Reunion of the Societ>' of the Descendants of Robert
and Mary (Warren) Bartlet will be held in the Chapel of
the Methodist Church, corner of C ourt and Brewster Streets,
Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Saturday, August 12, 191 L
The chapel is only a short walk from the railroad station
and right on the electric car line, and will be open all da>- for
the con\enience of those who attend.
The meeting will come to order at 10 a. m., for the trans-
action of business, as follows:
1. Opening Exercise.
2. Song, — " Summer is Here " J. ]]'. Bischoff
Miss Mary A. Hopkins, Weymouth, Mass.
(Madame Barlow, of Boston, Accompanist.)
3. Roll Call of Members.
4. Reading of Secretar\''s Record of the Pre\"ious Meeting.
5. Reports of Ot^cers and Committees.
6. Election of Officers.
7. New Business.
At 12 m. lunch will be serxed in Wesleyan Hall b\' the
Ladies' Aid Societ\' of the Methodist Church — price per plate,
fifty cents.
The afternoon exercises will l)e held at tlie Memorial
Site, weather permitting; otherwise at the Cliapel. 1-dectric
cars will leave the Chapel at 1 p. m.
Program
Song — " The Golden Pathway " Hamilton Gray
Miss Mary A. Hopkins
A Paper — "The Ancestry of the Warrens," by the President,
Lucius Warren Bartlett of Hartford, Conn.
A Review of the History of the Society by the Historian,
Mrs. Marian Longfellow of Boston.
Short Addresses by —
Mrs. Flora S. Matthewson, of South Braintree, Mass.
Secretary of the Alden Kindred of America.
Mr. (jcorge Warren Tower, of South Boston, Mass.
President of llie Tower Genealogical Society.
Rev. George A. Smith, of Boston, Mass.
Secretary of the American Society of Colonial Families.
Five-Minute Letters by Members.
Closing Song — " Home, Sweet Home " /. Iloivard Payne
Miss Mary A. Hopkins
Every descendant of Robert Bartlet, who can possibly
do so, is urged to be present this year.
Our program, both instructive and entertaining, is the
most complete of any we have ever been able to offer.
The place, the occasion, and the literary exercises, all
combine as never before to give inspiration to all who may
attend and make them feel, we think, that it was good to be
there.
Come. Invite your friends to come, and bring this pro-
gram with you.
Lucius Warren Bartlett, President..
Mrs. Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, Secretary.
Address of Welcome hy the President
Members of the Bartlett Family and Friends: — I take pleas-
ure in welcoming you to this our Fourth Annual Reunion.
The question has recurred to me often during the past year,
why do we thus meet, and for what purpose? A very perti-
nent question, it seems to me. I do not believe that any of
us are here simply " Because we're here." The question,
like many others, is more easily asked than answered, there-
fore I will not take much of your time in attempting it, for
the reason we have others with us today who are much more
capable and will address you later. Several different moti\es
have probably actuated most of us present. For those
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who hciNC nc\cr before \isilecl this, the most historic s])ot in
this broad land of ours, it is a magnet most powerful; and for
those who have been here many times, they do not seem to
tire, as witness the hundreds of visitors who annually make
their pilgrimage to this Mecca of New England, if not of
all America. To many others the social side is the great
attraction of this antl similar gatherings, where those of kin-
dred blood ma\' take a da>- or two of pleasure and relaxation
from the daily round of toil, which is the lot of most of us.
To clasp the hand, exchange salutations, and make tlie
acquaintance of those, who ha\-ing descended from a common
ancestry, we meet here for the first time, and, alas, in too
many instances, for the last time, until w^e meet in that other
sphere beyond the transition which we call death.
Especially attractive should these reunions be to those
who can lay claim to such a heritage as has descended to us
all from the Pilgrims of the Mayflotver, the Fortune, and the
A)ni. But above and be\ond and rooted far deeper in the
human breast than all the things I ha^'e mentioned, is the
spirit of patriotism. And, whether fully conscious of it or
not, it seems to me that patriotism is the underlying motive
that brings us together here, and the rock upon which the
foundation of the Bartlett and other kindred societies must
be built in order that they may endure. A patriotism that
shall preserve and hand down to our posterity that price-
less heritage which has been bequeathed to us. What, then,
becomes our duty that we may be honored by those who
come after us, e\-en as we honor those who have gone before?
Every age and every generation have their work to do.
Superstition, bigotry, injustice, and wrong, still exist. Sel-
fishness and greed are yet the ruling passions of the world,
so that eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty. If there is
a person here who thinks if he had the opportunity, such as
came to his sires in the war for Independence, or the ('ivil
war, what a hero and patriot he would becom.e, let me say
to that person, there are serious evils existing in this country
today that, unless checked, will slowly but surely undermine
and destroy this heritage of ours. There never was more
need of moral heroes and patriots in this Republic than at
the present moment. The opportunity is right at hand and
knocking at your door. Remember also that it requires
sterner stuff and more undaunted courage to be a rnoral
than a military, hero. The field of activit\- for military
heroes is limited, but for moral heroes it is world-wide. The
fields are white unto the harvest, but the reapers are few.
In conclusion, to impress upon your minds the thought I
have been trying to express, I will read a few lines culled
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from one of James Russell Lowell's poems, entitled " A
Glance Behind the Curtain."
" New times demand new measures and new men !
The world advances and in time outgrows
The laws that in our father's day were best !
And doubtless after us, some purer scheme
Will be shaped out by wiser men than we.
Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.
We cannot hale Utopia on by force !
But better almost be at work in sin,
Than in a brute inaction browse and sleep.
No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him ! there is always work.
And tools to work withal, for those who will,
And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
The busy world shoves angrily aside
The man who stands with arms akimbo set,
Until occasion tells him what to do !
And he who waits to have his task marked out.
Shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.
One age moves onward and the next builds up
Cities and gorgeous palaces where stood
The rude log huts of those who tamed the wild.
Rearing from out the forests they had felled.
The goodly framework of a fairer state.
Let us speak plain ! there is more force in names
Than most men dream of ! and a lie may kecjj
Its throne a whole age longer if it skulk
Behind the shield of some fair seeming name.
Let us call tyrants TYRANTS and maintain
That only freedom comes by grace of God,
And all that comes not by his grace must fall !
For men in earnest have no time to waste
In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth."
Record of the Third Bartlett Reunion, June 16, 1910
The Third Annual Reunion of the Society of the Descend-
ants of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass., was held in the
Chapel of the Methodist Church, corner of Court and Brew-
ster Streets, Plymouth, Mass., on Thursday', June 16, 1910.
A cloudy sky with a gentle rain part of the da>-, kept man\'
from attending, hut it failed to dampen the enthusiasm of
the members who did assemble, nearh' hft\- in number.
At 11 a. m. the meeting w^as called to order, the presi-
dent, Mr. Lucius Warren Bartlett, of Hartford, Conn., pre-
siding. With a few words of greeting he welcomed members
and friends to this our " Home Coming to the old Historic
Town of Plymouth; the Parent Homestead of our Bartlett
Famih'."
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Miss Isabelle M. Bartlelt was appointed to assist the
Secretary-, b>' attending to the registering of members in the
Journal and the eollection of the yearly dues.
The Record of the pre\ious meeting, August 27, 19()<), 1)\-
Mrs. Eugenia F. Bartlett Lovell, Secretary, pro ton, was
read by your Secretary, Mrs. Krmina Bartlett Suhanek, and
accepted. The Treasurer's report was also submitted and
accepted.
Kn\-elopes with l)lanks were distributed to the members
for contributions or j^iledges toward defra>'ing the expenses
of incorporation, securing the Memorial Tablet, etc. The
sum of S42.00 was contributed and S5.00 pledged at that time.
A roll-call of members succeeded these reports, after
which the ofihcers for the ensuing year were elected.
With one exception the officers of the pre\'ious >ear were
unanimously re-elected, as follows:
Lucius Warren Bartlett, Hartford, Conn., President.
Mercer V. Tilson, South Hanson, Mass., First Viee-Presi-
dent.
Charles H. Bartlett, Dorchester, Mass., Second Vice-
President.
Mrs. Ermina B. Suhanek, f)f Holyoke, Mass., Secretary
and Treasurer.
Mrs. Marian Longfellow, Brookline, Mass., Historian.
Reference was made to some important maps executed
by Mr. Mercer V. Tilson, our First Vice-President, showing
that portion of the town of Plymouth where Robert Bart let
owned land and li\'ed.
Mr. D. S. Burrell, of Brockton, Mass., had some fine photo-
graphs of the memorial tablet for sale (two styles with a postal
card).
No further business being presented at 12.30 the meeting
adjourned for dinner, which was served b>' the Ladies' Aid
Association of the Methodist Church, in Wesleyan Hall.
After our appetities has been appeased by a bountiful colla-
tion and all seemed in good spirits, the clouds were dispelled
long enough for our artist to secure a good photograph ot
the members present, on the lawn in front of the church.
At 2 p. m. all were assembled in the church. The Presi-
dent introduced Mrs. Marian Longfellow, niece of the poet
Longfellow and a descendant of Robert Bartlet, who ga\-e
the address of the occasion. Her subject, " Our Pilgrim
Ancestors and the Debt We Owe Them," was most thoroughh-
and skilfully expounded and e\ery one must ha\e tell re-
warded for journeying to the meeting by listening to that
alone. The manuscript she \er\- kindh" presented to the
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Society cind the address with newspaper accounts of the Reun
ion is appended to this report.
A report of the President in regard to ha\ing the Society
incorporated was made as follows:
" At the Reunion held at Manomet, August 27, 1909, a
letter was read from Mr. Charles H. Warren, of Providence,
R. I., granting us the privilege of erecting a memorial to mark
the site of the home of Robert and Mary (Warren) Bartlet,
and it was voted at this meeting to proceed to erect the me-
morial.
In opening the negotiations with Mr. W'arren about the
land, he requested that the Society be incorporated, preferring
to do business with a legally constituted body. In compliance
therewith the necessary steps were taken, a form of agreement
prepared, and on December 11, 1909, the signers of the agree-
ment, upon proper notice, met at the Parker House in Bos-
ton, and completed the work by adopting a set of by-laws,
electing officers, as required by the Statutes, and on Decem-
ber 30, 1909, the charter was granted. Accordingly all that
remains to be done is for the Society to vote to dissolve the
old Society and accept the Charter."
This report w^as accepted and in accordance therewith it
was voted to dissolve the old Society and accept the Charter.
Thanks were extended to Mrs. Longfellow for her very
able and interesting paper.
After the address, remarks were made by the President,
Second Vice-President, and others. Before closing a vote of
thanks was given to Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet, the retiring Histo-
rian, for her faithful research in the interest of the Society,
also to the church committee, and the Ladies' Aid for the
use of the church and their fine entertainment. The meet-
ing adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Mrs. Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, Secretary.
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f Alemorial Tal.kl
Treasurer's Report
Receipt^
jNlembership fees, at .50 .
Contributions toward expense -
Mr. Lucius Warren Bartlett
Mrs. Lucius Warren Bartlett
Mrs. Ermina B. Suhanck
Mrs. Marian Longfellow-
Mrs. Moses Simmons
Mrs. Martha B. Morton
Mr. Ephraim D. Bartlett
Mrs. Mary Bird Keith
Mrs. Anna B. Johnson
Mr. Roland F. Tillson
Mrs. Flora B. Ulrich
Miss Helen Bird
Mr. W. EUery Bird .
Mr. Henry M. Bird
Miss Lucy Kilbourne
Mrs. Susan J. Hopkins
Miss Mary A. Hopkins
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Pratt
Mrs. Madeline B. Hoyt
A Friend
Total receipts
Balance due Treasury
Expenditures
To Bartlett Engraving Co.
" Smith, Lindslcy Co. for 300 circular haters
" " " " " 550 copies roster )_
" " " " " 550 notice slips \
" " " " " 300 letter-heads .
" " " " " 600 note circulars
" " " " " 600 4-pp. programs
" Mrs. E. B. Suhanek, envelopes and postage
" Smith, Lindsley Co., 300 letter-heads .
" L. W. Bartlett for guarantee to Ladies' A
vice
" " " " " recording deed
" " " " " Secretary's supplies .
" " " " " envelopes and postage
" " " " " Historian's expenses fro
yoke and return
" " " " " expense of mailing list
" " " " " envelopes and postage
Total expenses
Deficit at last Report
■OR 1910-11
sS47.50
S50 . 00
50 . 00
50 00
5 00
2 . 00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1 00
1 . 00
.50
.50
.50
.50
.50
.50
.50
.50
$168.00
$168.00
$215.50
91.89
$307.39
$2.31
5.00
30.00
3 . 50
5.00
8.00
3.14
3 . 50
id and ianitor
ser-
7.50
.65
6.50
12.82
n Boston to Hol-
4.80
1.20
9.84
$103.76
203 . 63
Itemized
Report.
$307.39
Is approved by the Executive Committee accompany this
Respectfully submitted,
Ermina B. Suhanek, Treasurer.
NoTE^ The greater part, of this deficit of S91.89 is due to the sending out of the Ros-
ter, with a letter asking for contributions toward the expense of the tablet. 1-rom the four
hundred sent out we received two responses of fifty cents each. The foregoing contribu-
tions were made previous to the sending out of the letters.
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SOCIETY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF
ROBERT BARTLET OF
PLYMOUTH. MASSACHUSETTS
Historian's Address, August 12, 1911
History keeps alive the Nation, the State, and the Fam-
ily. When a nation declines. History pauses, and when a
nation dies, History no longer attends.
We may, therefore, grasp the power and the worth of a
people by what History holds aloft upon its scroll concerning
that people. It behooves us, then, as a Society bound
together by ties of common ancestry, — Robert Bartlet and
Mary Warren, his wife, — to keep ever before our eyes the
tale told at fireside hearths and by the softened glow of the
candle, in ^•ears gone by. History has enrolled the name of
Bartelot, later grown into Bartlet and Bartlett, on the annals
of glorious deeds. Adam Bartelot, our first ancestor,
came into England with William the Conqueror. In the fif-
teenth century a castle was added as crest for valor of John
Bartelot in capturing the tower of Fontenoy, and he was al-
lowed ever after to use that tower as a crest. To this was added
another crest, in the sixteenth century — a swan, in token of
the right to keep swans, those graceful and beautiful creatures,
on the classic and memorable stream, the Avon, by one of
the Bartlets.
The first Bartelot lives in the reflection of brave and gal-
lant deeds; the record of the man for whom our Society is
named and the Society itself must hold to the hand of His-
tory " lest we forget " and, mayhap, be forgotten !
The deeds of Robert Bartlet were not heralded like those
of his ancestors, John Bartelot, by blare of trumpet or by
outburst of applause. Robert Bartlet walked in quieter
ways, though not less heroic, for he was one of the " Builders "
of a new nation and was destined to mold the opinions of his
day.
W^e, his descendants, gathered together first on Thursday,
August 13, 1908, at 10 a. m., in the town of Brockton, Mass.,
and the first meeting was called for the " descendants of Ben-
jamin Bartlett, who settled in Stoughton, Mass., about
1750."
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It was throuiib tlic inslrunicntalil\- of a descciulanl of
that Benjaniin Haillet son of Roht'rL I^arlk'L of Pl\niouth,
Lucius Warren Bartlett, that this Socic't>- became a Ii\int> thin^.
The call to this meeting was issued from Hartford, Conn., on
July 10, 1908.
Lucius Warren Bartlett, of Hartford, Conn., our honored
President, and the strong tower of reliance to this So(-iet\',
was desirous to honor his own line, that ol Jose|)h, and thus
he called the meeting in that form. Later he saw that the
Society must go back to the fountain head in America, and
the Society became not the society of the descendants of this
or that son of the original emigrant but the s()ciet\- of the
descendants of the man who was the first of his line to come
to the new world.
Lucius Warren Bartlett is a \ery modest as well as a very
energetic man, and it \\\\\ be a trial to him to be compelled
to listen to what I shall ha\e to sa\' to \'ou concerning him a
little later on, for he shuns encomitim and seeks not to \aunt his
own good deeds, but rather to co\er them from sight. But
with the duties and responsibilities of his position as the head
of such a SocietN' as this comes a certain publicity that he
may not escape. Of him and of his work this paper will
contain a record.
We find him in the picture which bears the following
printed explanation underneath it: — "First annual outing
at Brockton, Mass., August 13, 1908, of the Societ\- of the
Descendants of ROBERT BARTLP:T, First, of Plymouth,
who came over in the Ship A^m in 162.S." We find him, not
in the foreground of this picture, but modestly at one side,
and the only " prominent " feature that shows what he has
done for the Society is his hands; good, firm, capable hands
that have held the rudder of the good ship " Robert Bartlet "
in its voyage so far, and which we hope may continue to so
hold it for many a year to come.
rhe photographer who shows up all our defects, or all
our points, with cruel distinctness has emphasized those
hands to an appalling extent physically; metaphorically
those hands have been large indeed in their power and help-
fulness toward the Society of the Descendants of Robert
Bartlet of Plymouth.
It becomes my duty to speak a little more of Mancjmct
than to merely mention it as the place where the Bartletts
held their second reunion.
Manomet is a charming seaside \illage in the historic old
town of Plymouth, one of the journals of the day tells us, and
White Horse Beach the finest of Phniouth's beaches, and but
a minute's walk from Hotel Crescent.
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In 1628 Robert Bartlel married Mary Warren, a daui^htcr
of the emigrant, Richard Warren, one of the signers of the
" Mayflower Compact," and thus two old famihes, both of
which entered England under the standard of William the
Conqueror, were united. Robert Bartlet li\ed at Mano-
met; here he held property and here he died. Only a short
walk across the fields, the paper goes on to relate, is the sec-
ond Bartlet house built by Robert's son, Joseph, in 1680.
It was at this meeting that the descendants of Robert Bartlet
voted to erect a suitable memorial on the spot where the
original Bartlet home once stood, at the foot of the Pine
Hills, near Eel Ri\er. I wonder how many persons who have
for years turned to " Bartlett's Familiar Quotations " for
information, know that its author, John Bartlett, was a
descendant of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth. John Bartlett
was of the eighth generation.
James Russell Lowell has written most beautifully of
June. He says, " What is so rare as a day in June ! " We
hope such days as June 16 and 17 of the year of Our Lord,
1910, when the third reunion was held, are rare ! In fact,
they may be said to have been positively raw ! Those of us
w^ho did not get soaked with rain on June 16 at tl]e Reunion
of the Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet of
Plymouth, finished the job at Hingham the next day at the
Reunion of the Tower Genealogical Society, with a devotion
to detail that was nothing short of pathetic ! Those who
attended both meetings, last year, will, I am sure, bear me out
in this statement.
Among the objects of interest seen at the third reunion
was an iron " fire-back," bearing the date of 1660. This
was imported from England, originallv bv Joseph Bartlet
(2) son of Robert (1).
Joseph, who married in 1660, went to Manomet Ponds,
now South Plymouth, built a home, and settled there. In
1680 he built another home at Manomet, a view of which has
already been shown in this report, under the second reunion.
Sometime later the original house fell into the hands of Charles
Dana Bartlett (8) and Hosea C. Bartlett (8) sons of Charles
Bartlett (7) who lived in this house for fifty years. Sometime
later Hosea C. Bartlett tore down his half of the old home-
stead, and Charles Dana Bartlett removed his half further
up the road, and it was still standing in June of 1910. It
was while removing the chimney that the fire-back was dis-
covered, and in 1880 sold by Charles Dana Bartlett to A. M.
Harrison, of the United States Coast Survey, and by him
bequeathed to Miss Sarah Achsah Bartlett of Plymouth.
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In connection with Mr. Tilson's work it should he stated
that he contributed some important maps showing that por-
tion of Plymouth which Robert Bartlet owned when he
lived there.
The following is a copy of the letter which the Secretary-
Treasurer of the Society of the Descendants of Robert Bart-
let of Plymouth was instructed to write to Mr. Charles H.
Warren and Mr. Charles A. Stone.
Dear Sir: — The Secretary of the Society of the Descendants of Rob-
ert Bartlet, of Plymouth, Mass., has been instructed to write you a letter
of appreciation and thanks for conveying to them the right to erect a
Boulder with a suitable tablet thereon, on a lot of land one hundred feet
square, comprising the site of the home of Robert and Mary (Warren)
Bartlet, together with the " right of way " to and from said lot to the
Manomet road.
Such Memorial has been erected and a copy of this letter of acknowl-
cdjicment ordered placed upon the records of the Society.
Respectfully yours,
(Mrs.) Er^uxa Bartlett Suhanek.
In closing- what ma\' have been a long and somewhat
tedious report, let me ^'oice the hope that we may so wield
the influence that is ours, and so cherish and amplify the com-
mendable virtues displayed in the lives of our ancestors that
our children's children, and their children's children in turn,
may point to this Society of the Descendants of Robert
Bartlet and Mary Warren, his wife, as having been a potent
factor in the preservation and conservation of all that should
be the true American's proudest boast — descent from honor-
able men and women; life that shall preserve the integrity
of that descent, and a hopeful looking forward to that work
being carried on by a posterity that shall in no whit lack the
^'irtues, the ideals, and the achievements of their Pilgrim,
their Puritan, and their Huguenot ancestry.
Marian Lonc.feli.ow.
The Historian's address was followed b\- a paper by the
President, entitled:
THE WARRENS
By Lucius Warrex Bartlett
Reviewing an article on Richard Warren, Twelfth Signer,
in a work entitled, " The Mayflower Signers," b\- Annie
Arnoux Haxtun. Reprinted from the Mail and Express,
New York, 1896.
Mrs. Haxtim's article is founded. I ihink, niainh (for no
authorities are (juoted) on a chart of the Harlerian Societ>' of
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X'isitations of llu' fouiilx- of I )c\()nsliii-c, l''.iii;l;m(l, dalrd 1()2(),
which she has incorporali'd in hci' ailiclc.
She commences as follows: " Suth fans imi^i he accrpied
in writing histor>-." This is a slaleincnl to wliich we will
all agree, therefore I will incorporate hew the same cliai-t of
the Harlerian SocieU'.
Mrs. Haxtun proceeds thus: "Willing or otherwise the
records pro\-e that Richard Warren the I'ilgrini cannot he
placed in an\- certainl\- in regard to his famiK' relations,
before his adx'ent in the colonies as one of the Maxtlower
Pilgrims. Certain it is " (please note what she sa\s is cer-
tain) " that he came in this shij) and was followed later on
by his w'ife Elizabeth and his chiughters."
Mrs. Haxtun ftirther says, " The confusion in regard to
him arises from the fact that there was ancjther Warren in
the colonies and who had the honor of being the son of Chris-
topher W^arren, and the pleasure of ha\ing P2hzabeth Jouat,
widow of Marsh for his wife.
" There the story as told us of the IMlgrim ends, their
children being John and Richard."
Before proceeding further let us see what this chart of
Visitations says. Richard Warren (22) of Creenwich, in Kent,
son of Christopher (21) and Alice (Webb) Warren, married
Elizabeth Jouat relict of Marsh and had Richard and
John.
Now, if stern facts must be accepted, as Mrs. Haxtun sa\-s,
it occurs to me that if Richard Warren the Pilgrim was not
the son of Christopher and Alice (Webb) Warren who as she
says " W^as followed later on by his wife Elizabeth and his
daughters," then his wife Elizabeth who came in the Ann
was not Elizabeth Jouat, widow^ of Marsh, who, accord-
ing to the chart, married Richard W^arren (22) son of (liris-
topher, and further that the Richard Warren (22) who did
marry Elizabeth Jouat must have been the other Warren in
the colonies, who had the honor of being the son of Christo-
pher and of having Elizabeth Jouat Marsh for his wife.
Mrs. Haxtun has thus created two families, Richard the
Pilgrim and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of somebody, who
came in the Ann with her daughters, and Richard Warren,
son of Christopher, who did marry P^lizabeth Jouat relict
of Marsh and came to the colonies sometime ancl somewhere
and had two sons in England, John and Richard.
To quote further she says, " Richard and Joseph repeat
themselves in both families," (referring, I suppose, to the fam-
ilies just mentioned) " then there is Nathaniel's."
Again she says, " Why should he not ha\e been Richard
Warren recorded as sheriff of Coventry, 1610, ha\ing hve
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daughters to come out with their mother in the Ann, fits
into the necessary maturity."
It seems to me there is no maturity into which to fit, except
that of her own creation, which was wholly unnecessary.
Mrs. Haxtun says, " The two families of Warren unite
very naturally in the fact that the Pilgrim descendant,
General James Warren the Revolutionary officer and Presi-
dent of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, succeeded
General Joseph Warren of Bunker Hill fame, a member of
the other family in office.
Who were the two families of General James Warren and
General Joseph Warren? Davis's " Landmarks of Plym-
outh," gives the ancestry of James Warren (5) born in Plym-
outh, Mass., September 28, 1726, and married in 1754 Mercy
Otis, sister of James Otis, as James Warren (4), James Warren
(3), Nathaniel Warren (2), Richard Warren (1). The "His-
tory of Roxbury, Massachusetts," by Francis S. Drake, pub-
lished in 1878, gives the ancestry of General Joseph Warren
(5) of Bunker Hill fame as Joseph Warren (4), Joseph War-
ren (3), Peter Warren (2), John Warren (1), of Boston, who
came with Governor Winthrop in the Arbella and arrived in
Salem 12th June, 1630.
Mrs. Haxtun in conclusion says, " That the Warrens lead
straight to the Mayflower, though repetition of names in the
two families makes the title a very puzzling one, but there need
be no doubt of the claim presented by those bearing the name
of Otis, Winslow, Walker, Doty, Bradford, and many others
scattered the world over. Again the matter must be left to
the Society of Mayflower Descendants. Their good work
is progressing, fed by the knowledge gained from each seeker
for enrolment on the list of members." Mrs. Haxtun thus
practically admits she knew but little about it and leaves the
matter for others to settle.
Upon inquiring of a correspondent what the name of this
other Warren was who came to the colonies and had the
pleasure of having Widow Elizabeth Jouat Marsh for his
wife I received the following reply: " The name of the other
Warren was Richard. The authority states that he did not
come in the Mayflower, that he was the son of Christopher,
and strange to relate he and his wife died about the same
time and were of the same age as Richard the Pilgrim and
his wife."
To my mind it is a preposterous story that there were
two Richard Warrens of the same generation, who came to
the colonies about 1620, who had wives both of whose names
were Elizabeth, that the two Richards and the two Eliza-
beths died about the same time, and that Richard, the son
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of Christopher and his wife, and Ricliard the Pilgirm and
his wife, were the same age when the\' (hed.
The coincidence, if it did happen, I predict ne\er had its
parallel before and ne\er will again in the histor\' of the
world.
I desire now l)riefl\' to call >"our attention to ^hat geneal-
ogists and others have written in relation to the Warrens to
show^ that there was not another Richard Warren named of
that generation except the Mayflower Pilgrim. The next
one mentioned was Richard, son of Nathaniel, w'ho was son
of Richard the Pilgrim. We do not find another Richard
Warren until we come to the seventh generation from the
Mayflower; so much in relation to the confusion of names.
I quote first from a book entitled " The Wheelers and
The Warrens," compiled by Henry W^arren Wheeler, Joel
Munson's Sons, publishers, Albany, N. Y., 1892: John War-
ren, Boston, Mass., 1630, through Ebenezer Warren, Leices-
ter, Mass., 1744. Emigrants of this name settled in Plym-
outh, Watertown, and Boston, but no proof has been dis-
covered of a connection between these families.
Richard was the first of the name to settle in America.
He came in the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth. John
came from England to Watertown in 1630 and ainother John
settled in Boston the same year. Among the Virginia col-
onists also there were two Warrens, Joseph, who came from
England in the ship Alice in 1635 and afterwards settled in
New^ England, and John, who came in 1635 in the Plaine
Joan. John Warren of Boston came with Go\'ernor Win-
throp in the Arbella and arrived in Salem 12th June, 1630.
The name John Warren appears in the first list of those who
took the Freeman's oath 18th of May, 1631.
This John w^as doubtless the father of Peter, whose eld-
est son w^as named John. Peter Warren, born in 1628, pur-
chased land in Boston 8th March, 1659 and is there styled
Mariner. He married Sarah, daughter of Robert Tucker
of Dorchester, 1st August, 1660. Children of Sarah and
Peter Warren: John, Joseph, Benjamin, Elizal)eth, Robert,
Ebenezer, and Peter. Children of Peter and Hannah War-
ren (2d wife) : Hannah, Marv, Robert. Not a Richard in this
list!
" History of Roxbury, Massachusetts," by Francis S.
Drake, published 1878, page 212: The Warren estate was
bought in 1687 by Joseph Warren (3), Peter (2), John (1).
The Warren homestead was built by Joseph Warren (3) in
1720. In November, 1805, it came into the possession of
Dr. John C. Warren (5), Joseph (4), Joseph (3), Peter (2),
John (1).
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Joseph Warren (4) and Mary (Stevens) Warren had four
sons: Joseph (5), Samuel (5), Eljenezer (5), John (5). Three
of these sons, Joseph, Ebenezer, and John were in the l^attle
of Lexington.
Ebenezer W. Pierce in his book pul:)Ushed 1874, " Histor-
ical, Genealogical, and Biographical," giNcs an account of the
genealogy of the Warrens, for which he says he was mainly
indebted to Dr. John C. Warren (5), being the result of his
labors while in Europe in 1851. Dr. John stated that John
Warren {22 on the chart), brother of Richard and son of
Christopher (21) came to America. Referring to the book
" The Warrens and The Wheelers," we find three Johns men-
tioned: John came from England to Watertown in 1630 and
another John settled in Boston the same year, and John who
came in 1635 in the ship Plaine Joan and settled in Virginia.
I leave it for others to decide which of the three Johns, if
either, was John Warren (22) son of Christopher (21), who
Dr. John Warren (5) says came to America.
What I wish >'ou in particular to obser\'e is that in all
the history not a Warren by the name of Richard appears
except the Mayflower Pilgrim.
In conclusion, first let me call \'our attention to the
Richard and John on the chart, sons of Richard Warren and
Widow Elizabeth (Jouat) Marsh. Elizabeth Warren, wife of
Richard, died in Plymouth in 1673, aged ninety years, mak-
ing her forty years old when she came in the Ann with her
five daughters. The father came alone and three years later
the mother came with the fi\'e daughters. The sons Richard
and John must ha\'e been nearly twenty years old and re-
mained in England so far as any records show.
Therefore, I believe, not finding any record whatever to
the contrary that Richard Warren (22), the Mayflower Pil-
grim, w^as the son of Christopher Warren (21) and his wife
was Widow Elizabeth (Jouat) Marsh, and their children were
Richard, John, Mary, Ann, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Abigail,
born in England, and Nathaniel and Joseph, born in Plym-
outh, Mass. Nathaniel was married in 1645, and Joseph
was married in 1651. There is nothing to militate against this
statement. On the contrary all the circumstances and records
so far as I have been able to discover substantiate in the
most con\incing manner the conclusion to whicli I ha\e
arrived.
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CI I ART
C;o[)if(l from llic C'liarl ni I lie IlarliTian Socit'U of X'isilations of llic
county of I)e\<)iisliiri-, l-ai-laiul, dale of UiiO.
18 John Warren of Hedlniry in the parish of Ashliurton.
10 C iiristo]ilier Warren son and hv'w.
20 William Warren married Ann daui;hter of Thomas Mahle of
t'arlstooke in ("ornwall.
('HILl)KKN'
21 Christopher Warren son and hi ir, married Aliei-, daughter of
Thomas Wehh of Sidnam.
Children
22 Robert Warren Ist son. Parson of Ranie in Cornwall married
Margaret daughter of I'eter Burgis of Peter Ta\->' in Corn-
wall.
22 John Warren.
22 Richard Warren of C.reenwiidi in Kent. Mi^reh.uit married
Elizabeth Jouatt and relict of Marsh, and had Richard
and John.
22 Christopher Warren of London married Sarah daughter of Nich.
Opic of Phanouth, England.
22 Thomas Warren.
22 William Warren of London merchant married Mar\' daughter ui
Will Culling of Woodland.
22 Ann Warren married John Richards.
Ann, wife of William Warren (20) married (2(\) Will Culling and had
children:
William Culling
John
Richard
Thomas " of London
22 Rev. Robert Warren 1st sou I'.irson of Rame in (^iruwall married
ALu->- daughter of Peter Burgis (jf Peter Tavy in Cornwall.
Children
Christopher Warren 1st son.
Robert " 2(1 "
Thomas " 3d "
Peter " 4th "
Nathaniel " S{h "
Margaret " 1st daughter.
Anne " 2d
According to the foregoing chart W'ilhant Warren (22,)
grandson of WilHam Warren (20) and Ann, married Mary
Culling, granddatighter of Ann by her second husband,
Will Tulling.
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Merci-k \
OPEN LETTER OF MERCER V. TILSON
South Hanson, Mass., September 23, 1911.
After working for more than twenty years in compiUng
the genealogy of the Tilson family, I am pleased to announce
to you that the Tilson genealogy has been published in book
form, 610 pages, size 6/^ inches by 9,'/^ inches, with thir-
teen half-tone illustrations and the family coat-of-arms,
and the family name embossed in gold on the front cover.
The book is bound in cloth and makes a volume which,
I think, will be a treasure to every Tilson who takes pride
in the men and women who have been their ancestors, and to
every descendant of the Tilsons whose lives are epitomized
therein.
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The book contains an account of the faniih' in Kngiand
hack to the \ear 1066 and of luhnond Tilson wlio resided in
Plymouth, Klass., in 16,S8.
Three hinidred \'oknnes haxe been printed and I do not
expect that an\- subsequent edition will be issued. These
\olunies I am offering for sale for four dollars, with the
postage of twent>'-four cents, and on receipt of this amount,
vS4.24, I shall be pleased to mail the xolumes i)ublis]ied until
the edition is exhausted.
Kindly remit at once, as I should be pleased, on account
of the condition of my health, to be able to dispose of these
\()lumes without dela\\
Ver>' truly >'Ours,
M. V. Tii.soN.
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ROSTER OF THE LIVING DESCENDANTS OF
ROBERT AND MARY (WARREN) BARTLET
A
Allen, Mrs. Mary P Springfield, Mass.
Miss Blanche Springfield, Mass.
Miss Madeline Springfield, Mass.
Ashley, Mrs. Daisy M Elmwood, Mass.
Miss Sarah H Elmwood, Mass.
Allstine, Mrs. Myra B Dalton, Mass.
B
Bartlett, Ephraim D Plymouth, Mass.
Cornelius Plymouth, Mass.
Cornelius, Jr Plymouth, Mass.
James E Plymouth, Mass.
Francis K Plymouth, Mass.
Robert A Plymouth, Mass.
Miss Sarah A Plymouth, Mass.
Miss Mary J Plymouth, Mass.
Mrs. Hattie D Plymouth, Mass.
Arthur L Springfield, Mass.
Frank K Springfield, Mass.
Herbert L Springfield, Mass.
Miss Beatrice Springfield, Mass.
Miss Mabel M Springfield, Mass.
Miss Katherine G Springfield, Mass.
Miss Dorothy R Springfield, Mass.
Miss Jessie M Springfield, Mass.
Mrs. Leota G Springfield, Mass.
Mrs. Lillian F Springfield, Mass.
Horace Worthington, Mass.
Guy Worthington, Mass.
Mrs. Emily B. Worthington, Mass.
Miss Marguerite W'orthington, Mass.
Miss Elsie Worthington, Mass.
Miss Marian Worthington, Mass.
Miss Alice Worthington, Mass.
Charles C Dalton, Mass.
Kenneth Dalton, Mass.
Lewis Dalton, Mass.
Homer Dalton, Mass.
Miss Mildred Dalton, Mass.
Miss Thelma Dalton, Mass.
Mrs. Ida B Dalton, Mass.
Tilson Lee, Mass.
Earl R Lee, Mass.
Richard W Lee, Mass.
George E Lee, Mass.
Miss Mildred A Lee, Mass.
Miss Helen R Lee, Mass.
John A Brockton, Mass.
Miss Marcia J Brockton, Mass.
Miss Edith E Brockton, Mass.
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Miss Isabclle M Brockton, Mass.
Henry J Roxbury, Mass.
Mrs. Sarah S Roxbury, Mass.
Miss Sarah B Roxbury, Mass.
Francis Boston, Mass.
Clyde Boston, Mass.
Francis Manomet, Mass.
E. Paran Manomet, Mass.
Irving C Greenfield, Mass.
Irving L., Jr Greenfield, Mass.
Richard S Greenfield, Mass.
Charles H Dorchester, Mass.
Robert \V New Bedford, Mass.
Miss L. Florence Belmont, Mass.
Otis B Holyoke, Mass.
Leroy C Marshficld Center, Mass.
Walter R Rockport, Mass.
Peter Hinsdale, Mass.
Miss Julia A F"lorcnce, Mass.
Cecil Westfield, Mass.
Wesley L Pittsfield, Mass.
William H New Haven, Conn.
Walter L New Haven, Conn.
Miss Ruth T New Haven, Conn.
Miss Evelyn A New Haven, Conn.
Lucius W Windsor, Conn.
Warren T Hartford, Conn.
Mrs. Zilpha J Windsor, Conn.
Miss Anna E Hartford, Conn.
David W West Haven, Conn.
Matthew H E. Hartford, Conn.
Joseph W Dallas, Tex.
Frederick W Dallas, Tex.
Byram Dallas, Tex.
Miss Ruth Dallas, Tex.
Miss Gertrude Dallas, Tex.
Richard W' Tacoma, Wash.
Harold Tacoma, Wash.
Miss Faith Tacoma, Wash.
Ephraim H Peacham, Vt.
Edwin M Wilmington, Vt.
Virgil Cheyenne, Wyoming
Mrs. Maria G Cheyenne, Wyoming
William P Richville, N. Y.
Miss Helen L Salt Lake City, Utah
Howard Peoria, Arizona
Cephas H Tipton, la.
Edward O Barrington, R. I.
W. Russell Harriman, Tenn.
Bird, Horace A Brockton, Mass.
Frederick H Brockton, Mass.
Bearce, George H Brockton, Mass.
Bird, Henry W E. Bridgewater, Mass.
Miss Helen E. Bridgewater, Mass.
Simeon A Campello, Mass.
Boomer, Mrs. Rebecca W Campello, Mass.
Bird, W. Ellery Kingston, Mass.
Brewster, Miss Ada A Kingston, Mass.
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Br\ant, Mrs. Sarah W Brant Rock, Mass.
Miss Edith E Brant Rocl<, Mass.
Bates, Mrs. Amanda B Worthington, Mass.
Frank \\'orthingt(jn, Mass.
Brooks, Mrs. Nina Worthington, Mass.
Bird, Hcnrv M Stoughton, Mass.
Bodfish, David L Pahiicr, Mass.
Browne, WiUiam B Blackington, Mass.
Bates, David M Plymouth, Mass.
Bird, Luther O N. Easton, Mass.
Benjamin, Mrs. Melissa W. Cummington, Mass.
Bickford, Marshall New York, N. Y.
Miss Amy G New York, N. Y.
Miss Lucille G New York, N. Y.
Barnard, Mrs. Mabel E Garfield, Utah
Miss Sarah Garfield, Utah
Baxter, Mrs. Grace Seattle, Wash.
Brown, Mrs. Mabel Seattle, Wash.
Burdick, Mrs. Alice P Hartford, Conn.
Blackman, Mrs. Mary E Winsted, Conn.
Burdick, Edwin P Newark, N. J.
Barclay, Mrs. Elizabeth D Philadelphia, Pa.
Blackman, Miss Willmay Richmond, Cal.
Burton, Charles P Aurora, 111.
Burns, Mrs. John, Jr Boston, Mass.
Emily Longfellow Boston, Mass.
Sih'ia Warlsworth Boston, Mass.
C
Car\er, Horace A Elmwood, Mass.
Mrs. Elizabeth A Elmwood, Mass.
Cooper, Mrs. Mary D Plymouth, Mass.
Clark, Mrs. Sarah B Plymouth, Mass.
Cross, William B Brockton, Mass.
William W Brockton, Mass.
Gushing, Mrs. Edith I Middleboro, Mass.
Clark, George W W. Springfield, Mass.
Conn, Mrs. Mary M W. Cummington, Mass.
Coates, Mrs. Anna G Easthampton, Mass.
Cleveland, Mrs. Elizabeth M Washington, D. C.
Raymond M Washington, D. C.
Kilbourne Worthington, Ohio
Cassiday, Mrs. Elizabeth Portland, Ore.
P>ederick W Portland, Ore.
Clark, Mrs. Catherine B New York, N. Y.
Churchill, Arthur H Montclair, N. J.
Clark, Clinton L Los Angeles, Cal.
Colgan, Mrs. Addie W Spokane, Wash.
D
Desoe, Harlan J W. Springfii'ld, Mass.
Harlan T W. Springfirld, Mass.
Lyndon A W. Sprinnficid, Mass.
Miss Madoline T W. SpringfRld, .Mass.
Dewey, Mrs. Carrie K Nc \v Lenox, Mass.
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Dran Mrs. Marian f Springfield, Mas
Dill. Wallace Dalton, Ma.
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K.i.lv. C-harlesA ^^li'i;"''''- i;-"^'^-
■ Albert ^ 1 '- • .'-"•
MissBculah ^ !'.'"■' ' ."""•
MissCirace ^ 1 -'"',' •"""■
Miss Kthel Milton , Conn.
Frank B N\est Spnnghelc , Mass.
Carroll B West Springfiec , Mass.
Virginia Fraye West Springfield, Mass.
(ieorge Ketika Park, N. \ .
Fatrer Miss Katherine L. Salt Lake City, Utah
Miss l.ncy i^i^lt '-'I'^i' '■'i'V' ' ''^
John ' .:
Flv, Nev;
F
Franklin, Mrs. Mabel B Hinsdale, Alass.
Ip,,vin Hinsdale, Mass.
Farry, Mrs. MaryB^ Dorchester, Mass.
Fuller, Mrs. Mary E Kingston, Mass.
Forbes, Mrs. Alice B Hartford, C onn.
Miss Barbara H Hartford, Conn.
C.eorge B Hartford, C onn.
Fuller, Mrs. Cornelia P Cilman, Canacla
Sylvanus (iilman, Canada
Ferguson, Mrs. Jane T Springfield, Mass.
G
( ",rav Mrs. Martha B Springfield, Mass.
( '.ordon Mrs. Nellie B Springfield, Mass.
Miss Mildred Springfield, Mass.
( -.ranger, Mrs. Permelia B W'orlhington, Mass.
( -.ilberl, Mrs. Abbev 1 Neponset, Mass.
( .lunz, Mrs. Emily H Easthampton, Mass.
Randolph Holyoke, Mass.
( '.arlinger, Mrs. Emeline Seatt e. Wash.
;\Iiss Ifla Seattle, Wash.
( -.ordon, Kav "' Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss Dorris 1'- Brooklyn, A. ^ .
H
Haskins Mrs. Angeline T Siiringfield Mass.
Miss Edith Springfield, Mass.
Haves, Irving C Springfield, Mass.
Miss Edith M Springfield, Mass.
Miss Ethel J Springfield, Mass.
Hopkins, Mrs. Susan M Weymouth, Mass.
Miss Marv A Weymouth, Mass.
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Harlow, Mrs. Minnie B Whitman, Mass,
Miss Florence I Whitman, Mass.
Hubbard, Miss Jennie S Plymouth, Mass.
Miss Sarah Plymouth, Mass.
Hawley, George Ware, Mass.
Mrs. Agnes B W'are, Mass.
Holmes, Mrs. Ellen B Brockton, Mass.
Harlow, Miss Mary F N. Easton, Mass.
Hawley, James W. Cummington, Mass.
Hoag, Mrs. Susie W. Gt. Barrington, Mass.
Hubbard, Mrs. Evelyn B Winsted, Conn.
Harrison, Mrs. Mattie B Winsted, Conn.
Hoyt, Mrs. Madeline B New Haven, Conn.
Hay, Mrs. Edith C Ft. Ethan Allen, Vt.
Harned, Mrs. Lillian Portland, Ore.
J
Johnson, Mrs. Mary E Salt Lake City, Utah
Miss Zilpha Salt Lake City, Utah
Miss Elna Salt Lake City, Utah
Miss Miriam Salt Lake City, Utah
Mrs. Anna M Roxbury, Mass.
Mrs. Anna M Middleboro, Mass.
Kilbournc, Charles W^orthington, Mass.
Mrs. Mary Worthington, Mass.
Miss Beatrice Worthington, Mass.
Alfred B Worthington, Mass.
Knapp, Mrs. Agnes P Cummington, Mass.
Fordyce L Cummington, Mass.
E. Clayton Cummington, Mass.
Keith, Mrs. Mary B E. Bridgewater, Mass.
Mrs. Susan O E. Bridgewater, Mass.
Kilbournc, Miss Lucy Springfield, Mass.
James N Pittsfield, Mass.
Knight, James New Milford, Conn.
Miss Blanche Brookfield, Conn.
Ray Brookfield, Conn.
Mrs. Mary Z Middletown, Conn.
Kratzer, Mrs. Helen K Windsor, Conn.
Kurtz, Mrs. Ada B .Athens, Ohio
Kilbournc, Joseph N N. Yakima, Wash.
Link, Mrs. Jessie T Superior, Wis.
Miss Margaret Superior, Wis.
Ernest Superior, Wis.
Lovell, Mrs. Eugenie B Whitman, Mass.
Logan, Mrs. Annie C Newton Highlands, Mass.
Leonard, Mrs. James B Brockton, Mass.
Lapham, George A McLouth, Kan.
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Longfellow, Arthur New York, N. V.
Henrv (">ren\ille New York, N. Y.
Miss Ellen T Boston, Mass.
Miss Louise A Portland, Me.
Mrs. Marian Boston, Mass.
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Mason, Mrs. Edith Worthington, Mass.
Miss Marian Worthington, Mass.
Miss Dorris, Worthington, Mass.
Dudley Worthington, Mass.
Stanley Worthington, Mass.
Winifred Worthington, Mass.
Mellen, Orson J Dalton, Mass.
Lewis B Dalton, Mass.
John O Dalton, Mass.
Mason, Miss Flora L Taunton, Mass.
Walter M Taunton, Mass.
Frank B Taunton, Mass.
McGrevy, Mrs. Alida W. Springfield, Mass.
Miss Dorothy V W. Springfield, Mass.
Mann, Mrs. Elizabeth B Stoughton, Mass.
Moon, Mrs. Ella B Stoughton, Mass.
McFarlin, Miss Helen S. Cowes, Mass.
Marshall, Mrs. Harriet A Whitman, Mass.
Morton, Mrs. Martha B Plymouth, Mass.
Mason, John W Northampton, Mass.
Miss Martha Waltham, Mass.
Charles W Roxbury, Mass.
Charles N New York, N. Y.
McGregory, Mrs. Minnie T Hamilton, N. Y.
Miss Edith Hamilton, N. Y.
Miss Gladys Hamilton, N. Y.
Donald E Hamilton, N. Y.
Harry L Akron, Ohio
McCullough, Mrs. A. Starr Peoria, Arizona
Macey, Mrs. Mercie W Somerville, Mass.
Morris, Henry Wadsworth C^oldfield, Nev.
Edward F Goldfield, Nev.
John Alden Goldfield, Nev.
William Longfellow New York, N. Y.
Winifred Grey New York, N. Y.
N
Nickerson, Mrs. Margaret B Chiltonville, Mass.
Miss Lina B Chiltonville, ALass.
Charles A Chiltonville, Mass.
John C Chiltonville, Mass.
E. Elliott Chiltonville, Mass.
William B Worcester, Mass.
Mrs. Polly M Plymouth, Mass.
Nichols, Mrs. Cora L Winsted, Conn.
Miss Leora Winsted, Conn.
Newcomber, Mrs. Elizabeth T Brockton, Mass.
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Olds, Mrs. Ella S Dalton, Mass.
Silas S Dalton, Mass.
OrcLitt, Alpheus Napa, Cal.
Packard, Henry \V. C'ummington, Mass.
Miss Lillian \V. Cummington, Mass.
Miss Margorie W. Cummington, Mass.
Miss Margaret A W. Cummington, Mass.
William W. Cummington, Mass.
Muriel W. Cummington, Mass.
John H W. Cummington, Mass.
Charles E W. Cummington, Mass.
Miss Olive M W. Cummington, Mass.
Miss Rachel M W. Cummington, Mass.
Herbert M W. Cummington, Mass.
Thomas T W. Cummington, Mass.
Harold C W. (\immington, Mass.
Frank Williamshurgh, Mass.
Joseph A Williamshurgh, Mass.
Charles A Williamshurgh, Mass.
Ralph A Williamshurgh, Mass.
George O Williamshurgh, Mass.
Walter A Williamshurgh, Mass.
Clifford I Williamshurgh, Mass.
Miss Ida M Williamshurgh, Mass.
Miss Rachel A Williamshurgh, Mass.
Miss Ruth E Williamshurgh, Mass.
Luther W Plainfield, Mass.
Cyrus W Plainfield, Mass.
Clayton L Plainfiled, Mass.
Clifford S Plainfield, Mass.
Miss Minnie R Plainfield, Mass.
Miss Anna E Plainfield, Mass.
Miss Mary E Plainfield, Mass.
Miss Ruth A Plainfield, Mass.
Henry Springfield, Mass.
Parker Springfield, Mass.
Miss Lucy Springfield, Mass.
Mrs. Mary C Brockton, Mass.
Herman Brockton, Mass.
Payson, Mrs. Julia R Medfield, Mass.
Pratt, Mrs. Elizaheth B Dorchester, Mass.
Perkins, Mrs. Amanda B Bridgewater, Mass.
Porter, Mrs. H. G Middlehoro, Mass.
Puffer, Mrs. Mary T Newton, Mass.
Pease, Kenneth Worthington, Mass.
Payson, Mrs. Jerusha H Windsor, ALiss.
Packard, Harry Pasadena, Cal.
Harley Pasadena, Cal.
Payson, George E Alexandria, Ind.
Packard, Rohert B Cincinnati, Ohio
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Rice, Mrs. I.illa K Springfield, Mass.
Miss K'ssie K SpriiiKhcUl, Mass.
Ralph \V Springfii-ki, Mass.
Reed, Mrs. Phebc A Springfield, Mass.
Randall, Harrison E Cde\eland, Ohio
Rohhins, Hiram \binglon, Mass.
Miss Susan B Ahington, Mass.
Robinson, Miss Flora B Medfield, Mass.
Rice, Mrs. Joanna T Walt ham, Mass.
Ritchie, Mrs. Hortense K Enfield, Mass.
Robbins, Loring Turner, Me.
Randall, Herbert Harttor.l, Conn.
Scharf, Mrs. Paul Washington, D. C.
DorothN- Washington, D. C.
Eugene Washington, D. C.
Prisrilla Alden Washington, D. C.
Smart, Mrs. Mar\- K S])ringfield, Mass.
Sydne>', Jr S])ringfield, Mass.
Miss Virginia S])ringheld, Mass.
Scjuier, Mrs. Cora B Springfield, Mass.
Sturtevant, Aimer V Springfield, Mass.
Miss Alice Springfield, Mass.
Miss Zilpha Springfield, Mass.
Smith, Walter W. Worthington, Mass.
Ralph W W. Worthington, Mass.
Miss X'erna W . Worthington, Mass.
Standish, Henry E Middleboro, Mass.
Mrs. Ellen S Middleboro, Mass.
St)ule, Mrs. Amanda B Middleboro, Mass.
Smith, Miss Dorris L Holvoke, Mass.
Karl I) Holyoke, Mass.
Lawrence F Holyoke, Mass.
Suhanek, Mrs. Ermina B Holyoke, Mass.
Strong, Mrs. Eunice B W. Springfield, Mass.
Simmons, Mrs. Mary B Plymouth, Mass.
Streeter, Mrs. Vesta W Cummington, Mass.
Sampson, Mrs. Mary H. Northampton, Mass.
Sheibley, Mrs. Jessie B W'ashington, D. C.
Singleton, Frank E W'ashington, 1). C
Mrs. Blanche K Washington, 1). C.
Sternberger, William A Peoria, .\rizona
Jesse H Peoria, .Arizona
Schultz, Mrs. Velva M Cedar Rapids, la.
Miss Ruby Cednr Rapids, la.
Miss Mildred Cedar Rapids, la.
Howard Cedar Rapids, la.
Earl Cedar Rapids, la.
Elva Cedar Rapids, la.
Singleton, Mrs. Lucy B Middletown, Conn.
Miss Clara I Middletown, Conn.
Sylvester, John E Wellston, Ohio
Short, Mrs. Josephine F Hoboken, N. J.
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Spence, Mrs. Lulu B Tipton, la.
Miss Eva Tipton, la.
Smith, Kirby Arlington, Cal.
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Tower, Henry L Worthington, Mass.
Miss Mary A Worthington, Mass.
Cullen Worthington, Mass.
Walter Worthington, Mass.
Trow, Mrs. Ida B Worthington, Mass.
Miss Bessie Worthington, Mass.
Miss Margaret Worthington, Mass.
Miss Nancy Worthington, Mass.
Tower, Charles W Springfield, Mass.
Herbert Springfield, Mass.
Miss Esther Springfield, Mass.
Miss Grace Springfield, Mass.
Tillson, Edmund Springfield, Mass.
Leroy E Springfield, Mass.
*Mercer V South Hanson, Mass.
Roland F Fall River, Mass.
Tower, Theodore P Cummington, Mass.
Taintor, Mrs. Bessie B Brookline, Mass.
Tillson, Edward H Naperville, 111.
Miss Mabel Naperville, 111.
Harold Naperville, 111.
Arthur Naperville, 111.
Earl Naperville, 111.
Fred H Rockford, 111.
Miss Marian Rockford, 111.
Town, Mrs. Mabel T Earlville, 111.
Tillson, Byron W Bracebridge, Canada
Lawrence B Bracebridge, Canada
Miss A. Lenora Bracebridge, Canada
Miss Dorothy F Bracebridge, Canada
Thrall, Mrs. Emma B Windsor, Conn.
Miss Alice Windsor, Conn.
Oliver Windsor, Conn.
Joseph B Windsor, Conn.
Tillson, John Q New Haven, Conn.
Cyrus M Hamilton, N. Y.
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Ulrich, Mrs. Flora B Hartford, Conn.
Miss Olive E Hartford, Conn.
Leroy Manchester, Conn.
W
Wellman, Mrs. Mary E Walpole, Mass.
Miss Fanny Walpole, Mass.
Miss Louise Walpole, Mass.
Edward C Walpole, Mass.
Charles Walpole, Mass.
♦Since Deceased.
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Wood, Mrs. Helen K Cheshire, Mass.
Miss Winifred B Cheshire, Conn.
Fred L Cheshire, Mass.
Wilson, J. Edward Holyoke, Mass.
Mrs. Kate B Holyoke, Mass.
W'catherbee, Aliss Blanche G Marshfield Hills, Mass.
Miss Clara G Braintree, Mass.
White, J. Bartlett N. Hanson, Mass.
Miss Eliza B Brant Rock, Mass.
Wood, Mrs. Harriet B Plymouth, Mass.
Williamson, Mrs. Flora B Campello, Mass.
Waterman, Mrs. Amanda B Kingston, Mass.
White, Miss Mabel M N. Easton, Mass.
Wheaton, Earl Springfield, Mass.
White, Mrs. Emma B Toledo, Ohio
Miss Flora Toledo, Ohio
W'arren, Charles H Providence, R. I.
Weyman, Wesley New York, N. Y.
Whitty, Mrs. Mabel H Norfolk, Va.
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Young, Mrs. Carrie B Bryantville, Mass.
Miss Grace M Newark, N. J.
Youmans, Mrs. Theodora W Waureka, Wis.
NOTICE OF THE FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING
The Fifth Annual Meeting and Reunion of the Society
of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet (1) of Plymouth,
Mass., Inc., will be held at Mountain Park Pavilion, Mt.
Tom, Holyoke, Mass., on Saturday, July 27, 1912. A short
business session at 11 o'clock a. m.
Accommodations for a fifty cent dinner will be provided
from 1 to 2 p. m. at the Pavilion. Families or parties who
desire to provide themselves with a basket lunch will find
tables for their accommodation in the park.
Trolley cars from Springfield and Holyoke to Mountain
Park every ten minutes. Good hotel accommodations can
be obtained in Springfield or Holyoke for those who wish
to spend more than the day in the vicinity.
Mt. Tom and Mountain Park furnish special attrac-
tions for an all-day's pleasure trip. Come early and stay
late and let us enjoy the day together.
Descendants, with Friends, All Welcome.
Lucius Warren Bartlett, President.
Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, Secretary.
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ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY THE PRESIDENT
Fifth Axxual Reunion. Jin.v 27, 1912
Members of the Robert Bartlet Soeiety, Brethren and Friends:
It is with much pleasure that I greet you again today and
extend to vou a heart\' welcome to this our fifth annual
meeting and reunion.
The sign at the entrance is not as clean and spcjtless as
are the characters of those assembled here, but it has the
distinction of ha\'ing reported for duty at every meeting from
the beginning. We ha\'e no extended program of exercises
this \ear, thinking it better to gi\e the time aside from the
business meeting, to sociability, making the acquaintance of
the members of our family and enjoying the pleasures of this
beautiful mountain resort. For this reason I will occupy
but a few minutes <jf \()ur time. There is another reason,
but ne\er mind that.
During the past year we ha\e lost three members by
death, Mrs. Amanda B. Waterman, of Kingston, Mrs.
Alice P. Burdick, sister of the President, and Mr. Mercer V.
Tilson, First Vice-President of the Society. Mention of
them will be made in the Historian's report. You will par-
don me, however, if I say a word in regard to Mr. Tilson.
Our acquaintance began in 1905, when I engaged him to
trace out my ancestral line, which I did not know back of
the fifth generation from Robert. In 1908 I spent a week's
vacation at his home in South Hanson and together we trav-
eled over the roads of Stoughton, Halifax, and Plymouth
and learned many things which were invaluable to me and
the Bartlett Society also. He loved the work and ga\e freely
of his time in searching for the Boulder and superintending
the work of erecting our memorial to Robert and Mary (War-
ren) Bartlet. He was of great assistance to your President
and I feel his lots a personal one.
It is with regret I have to state that our Historian,
Mrs. Marian Longfellow, of Brookline, Mass., who is reco\-
ering from a \ery sexere illness, is not able to be present with
us toda\-. She writes that her enforced al)sence is a bitter
disappointment lo her.
We haxe with us here today some officers and members
of the Tower Genealogical Society of Hingham, Mass.
The Towers, the Tillsons, and the Bartletts are so blended
together on genealogical lines in this western part of Mass-
achusetts, I trust you will pardon me if I again inflict upon
you a little of their histors'.
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Peter Tower (5) niarric>(l Deborah Slowi-ll, in lliniihani,
Mass.. Xo\eniher 2i^. 1 74(). I\'ler Towit ri'UioM'd from
Hintiham to ("uniniinulon, Mass., near the close ol the l\e\()-
lutionary War. At this lime or soon after his sexeral ehil(h-en
(there were ten of them) went there also. His oldest child
and daughter Leah (6) who had married Nathaniel Tower (5)
was among the number. Nathaniel Tower (5) married JA'ah
Tower (b) in Hingham, October 18, 1770. He was a soldier
in the War of the Re\()lution, and here 1 wish to (luoli- xou
from the Tower (lenealogy:
" A Pension of S66.66 per Annum was granted to hi--
widow Leah Tower, Dec. 9, 1845 with arrears to Sept. 1845
of sS966.57. At the date of the Certificate she had entered
upon the 99th year of her age. In her affidavit Leah Tower
says, ' We were extremely poor and his wages would not sup-
port our family, and he was advised to remove to the west-
ern part of the state. Have heard m\- mother sa\- they
moved with an ox team and were weeks on the way and his
pay as a soldier, sSlS.OO per month in Continental money,
would buy just fi\e quarts of milk at that time.' He seems to
have removed about 1780 and near this time a number of his
relations by the name of Tower and man>- others of other
names who were relatives removed from Hingham, Cohasset,
Weymouth, and the vicinity, to the hill towns west ot the
Connecticut River, then for the most part unoccupied, where
they became important factors in con\erting this wilderness
into well cultivated and flourishing farms, rearing large fam-
ilies of sons and daughters, who in their turn have repeated
the lessons of enterprise and industry so thoroughh- learned
upon those hill-tops and have gone out through successive
generations in other fields to reclaim the wilderness until
the waves of the Pacific Ocean bar an>- further progress."
Leah Tower died in Cummington, January- 23, 1847, aged
ninety-nine years, two months, nine days. I was nearl\-
six years old when she died. I remember going with m\-
parents once to ^•isit her, probably from the circumstance that
she gave me a silver five-cent piece at the time.
The Tilsons removed from Halifax to Cummington and
Edward Bartlett with his family of twelve children removed
from Stoughton to Cummington in 1795. Seth Ames and Isaac
Bird of Stoughton followed two of the daughters, Elizabeth
and Zilpha, and took them back to Stoughton. The rest of
the family remained in Cummington.
The Towers, Tilsons, and Bartletts owned farms adjoin-
ing each other and their homes were less than a mile a])ari.
Steven Tower (6), son of Peter (5), married Anna Bowkcr
of Scituate, April 21, 1776. They had 1.^ children and 84
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grandchildren. Four of the children of Edward Bartlett
married Towers, and two of them married Tilsons.
Welcome Tilson, brother of Edmund (who owned and lived
on the Bryant place for many years) married Leah Tower (7),
whose mother was a Bartlett. From the foregoing four fam-
ilies, one Bartlett, one Tower, and two Tilsons, have descended
about 400 of the 600 Bartlett descendants we have on our
mailing list, and more than 100 of them live within a radius
of twenty-five miles of Springfield, Springfield being the
banner town in the state. What more fitting, then, than
this our fifth annual meeting and reunion should be held at
this beautiful park under the shadow of Mt. Tom and, on
the other side of the Connecticut, Mt. Holyoke, standing as
sentinels to watch and guard over those beautiful valleys
which were the ancestral homes of so many of us.
The roster which we have here, that was issued January,
1911, containing 450 names, has 168 names who are descendants
of Robert Bartlet (1) and John Tower (1), 136 descendants of
Robert Bartlet (1) and Edmund Tillson (1), and 84 who are
descendants of all three of them.
I received a letter from one member saying he was plan-
ning to come all the way from Chicago for the purpose of
seeing what there is to the Bartlett-Tower-Tillson combina-
tion. I trust you all may receive both pleasure and profit
in this coming together and carry away with you to your
homes such pleasant memories of the occasion that you will
resolve to come again next year.
SECRETARY'S REPORT
(For Preceding Year)
Aug. 12, 1911.
Report of the Fourth Annual Reunion of the Bart-
lett Society
The Fourth Annual Reunion of the descendants of Robert
(1) and Mary (Warren) Bartlet, was held in Plymouth, Mass.,
on Saturday, August 12, 1911.
The morning session held in the Chapel of the Methodist
Church, for the transaction of business, opened at 10.30
with a few words of welcome by the President, Mr. Lucius
Warren Bartlett, of Hartford, Conn., and a song " Summer is
Here," by Miss Mary A. Hopkins, of Weymouth, Mass.
The roll-call of members proved thirty-two present at
that hour to answer to their names, and fiftv-seven names in-
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eluding visitors were registered in the Journal as attending
the morning session.
The Secretary's report of the previous meeting was read
and accepted. The Treasurer's report and that of work for
the vear, were also read and accepted.
Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet moved a rising vote of thanks to
the Secretary for the work she had done during the year.
This was cheerfully given and later a very hearty vote of
thanks was accorded to the President for his faithful services
in the interest of the Society.
The elections of officers for the coming year followed
these reports. The officers of the previous year were unani-
mously elected, the votes being cast by the Secretary, and were
as follows:
President, Mr. Lucius Warren Bartlett, Hartford, Conn.
First Vice-President, Mr. Mercer V. Tilson, South Hanson,
Mass.
Second Vice-President, Mr. Charles H. Bartlett, Dorches-
ter, Mass.
Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Ermina Bartlett Suhanek,
Holyoke, Mass.
Historian, Mrs. Marian Longfellow, Brookline, Mass.
Under the head of new business, the committee on by-
laws presented three amendments for consideration, notice
of which had been previously sent to all members of the
Society.
First. To see if the Society will repeal Section 1 of Article V of the
By-Laws, and insert in place thereof the words: " Section 1. Fiscal
Year. — The Fiscal Year of the Society shall be from January 1st to
December 31st. New members who join the Society between October
1st and December 31st of any given year, and paying the membership
fee, shall be considered as having paid their annual dues for the next suc-
ceeding fiscal year.
Second. To see if the Society will amend Section 1 of Article VI of
the By-Laws to read as follows: ''Dues. — The membership fee which each
member shall pay on joining the Society shall be one dollar ($1.00), and
thereafter there shall be an annual fee of one dollar ($1.00), due and pay-
able to the Treasurer on the first of January each year."
Third. To see if the Society will amend the By-Laws by adding the
following words to be designated as Section 2, Article 11: ''Associate
Members. — The ofiicers and members of other societies of similar charac-
ter and objects and other interested persons upon application, paying the
membership fee and being approved by the Executive Committee, may be
enrolled as associate members entitled to all the privileges of the Society
except voting and holding ofifice. The husband or wife of a descendant,
who is not in his or her own right a descendant of Robert Bartlet, of
Plymouth, may be eligible as an associate member under this clause."
Ermixa Bartlett Suhanek, Secretary.
L. \V. Bartlett, President.
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These three anienchnenls were acted upon separately
and each passed by unanimous \'ote.
Owing to the change in the date of the fiscal year frt)ni
January 1 to December 31, instead of as formerly from June
1 to May 31, it was voted that all who had paid one dollar
membership fee at this meeting be given receipt in full for
dues to December 31, 1912, and that all who had paid fifty
cents since Ma>- 31, 1911, should also, upon the payment of
another fiftv cents, be given receipt in full to December 31,
1912.
The matter of some permanent badge for the members of
the Societ\- was brought up b>- \'our President. A sample
design was exhibited which seemed pleasing to the members.
Several expressed a wish for such a badge and wanted to
order more than one. No further action was taken.
The Secretary was ably assisted during this session l^y
Miss Anna E. Bartlett, of Hartford, Conn., who received and
made record of dues paid and of contributions to the Memorial
Fund, also by Miss Alice M. Thrall, of Windsor, Conn.,
who registered the name and address of each member and
guest attending.
There being no further business at 12.30 the meeting
adjourned for lunch ser\'ed in Wesleyan Hall by the Ladies'
Aid Societ}' of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It was
cause for much regret that such an enjoyable dinner must
be hastened that we might take the 1.15 car for the site of
the Memorial Tablet, where the afternoon exercises were to
be held. The day was a perfect one and the pri\'ilege of
sitting in the open air, in the shade of the near trees, to dedi-
cate the beautiful Memorial Tablet right before us was a
happy diversion from the business session of the morning.
The memory of the occasion will linger long in the minds
of those so fortunate as to be present.
Mr. Charles H. Bartlett, our Second Vice-President,
was presiding ofiicer for the afternoon. The exercises opened
with a song, "The Golden Pathway," by Miss Mary A. Hop-
kins. The songs rendered by Miss Hopkins were ver^' pleas-
ing additions to our program and we felt proud I am sure of
so fine a singer in our family.
The next treat for the afternoon was a paper on " The
Ancestry of the Warrens," by our President, Mr. Lucius
Warren Bartlett. Following this w^as a very interesting
review of the history of the Society from its organization to
the present time by our Historian, Mrs. Marian Longfellow.
She included in her review some liistorical notes of its officers,
especially of the President and in lier ]iapp\' wa>' lield and
cliarmed her audience to the last.
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Unfortunately Mrs. Flora S. Matthewson, of South
Braintree, Mass., Secretary of the Alden Kindred of America,
whose name was on the program, could not be present.
Mr. George Warren Tower, of South Boston, President
of the Tower Genealogical Society, preached us a little ser-
mon, as he called it, from the text, Faith, Hope, and Cliarity.
He emphasized the teaching of the fifth commandment,
honor, love, and reverence for our ancestors and urged upon
his audience the advisability of keeping a record or histor>-
of their lives, assuring them that it would be esteemed a most
choice possession by their descendants.
Rev. George A. Smith, of Boston, Secretary of the Amer-
ican Society of Colonial Families, gave us a fine talk, his
theme being " (k-tting Together." I think he almost per-
suaded us to join the Society he represented and be in name
as we are in truth, one of the Colonial Families of America.
Remarks were made by Mr. Charles H. Bartlett, and other
members of the Society.
After all this fine entertainment, the sun was sinking
behind the trees and with the song " Home, Sweet Home,"
by Miss Hopkins, and the benediction by Rev. George A.
Smith, the Bartlett Famih^ separated hoping to meet again
next year.
Respectfully submitted,
Ermina Bartlett Suhankk, Sccretarv.
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Treasurer's Report, 1911-12
Receipts
MenilxTship fees at $1.00 for 1911
" " " " 1912
" ' 1913
Total ....
Contributions for Memorial Tablet:
Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet
Mrs. Hattie R. Bartlctt .
Mr. W. EUerv Bird .
Mr. C. H. Bartlett .
Mr. William H. Bartlctt .
Miss L. Florence Bartlett .
Mrs. Edith Carman Hay .
Mr. Horace Bird
Total ....
Total Receipts
Cash in Treasury at last Report
Grand Total
$2.00
105.00
2.00
$109.00
$2 . 00
1.00
1.00
1.00
2.00
1.00
1.00
.50
$9 . 50
$109.00
$9 . 50
$118.50
1.50
$120, CO
Expenditures
To rent of chairs, August 12, 1911
Delivery and return of chairs
Dinner tickets for guests
" Janitor service ....
" Floral emblem for the late Mr. Mercer V. Tilson
" Call for 1912 reunion
Printing of same
" 4 packages of stamped envelopes .
" Badges for 1912 reunion
Paid on deficit of last report
Total Expenses
Balance in Treasury
Grand Total ....
$2
00
5
.00
3
00
1
00
5
00
9
00
3
75
2
16
4
82
80
89
$116.62
3
38
$120.00
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HISTORIAN'S RP:P0RT
Annual Report of thh Historian, July 27, 1912
Descendants of Robert Bartlet and Mar>' Warren his
wife, place another milestone today in the history of this
Society. The Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. FLrmina Bart-
lett Suhanek, has given you the statistics of the Society as
to numbers and membership, finances, etc. It is m>' pro\ince
to endeavor to give a history of the work of the past >ear.
As ever, we owe to the untiring zeal, the steady purpose,
and generous response of our President, Lucius W. Bartlett,
most, if not all, of our success and progress. At the last
regular meeting or reunion of the Societ>- it was voted to
raise the " dues " to the rate of SI. 00 per annum instead of
the manifestly inadequate sum of fifty cents. This has been
a wise step. The Society has this year called the reunion
at another place than Plymouth, thus giving recognition to
the central portion of the state. An insignia, embodying the
Bartlet coat-of-arms, has been definitely adopted this year.
It is beautiful in design ; is modest in proportions, and is
well worthy a place in the finest collection of insignia of
patriotic and genealogical bodies.
Insignia of the Society
The Society has become a part of the American Society of
Colonial Families, thus adding to its usefulness and extend-
ing its influence. At two of the large bancjuets of the Ameri-
can Society of Colonial Families, held in Boston, the Society
of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass.,
was represented; the first one being on October, 1911, at
Ford Building, Beacon Hill, where your Historian had the
honor to deliver, by request, an address, and the other in
xA.pril of 1912, at Park Street Church, Boston, when your
President, Lucius Warren Bartlett, gave a paper on " The
Origin and Progress of the Societ\- of the Descendants of Rob-
ert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass.," which was listened to with
marked interest.
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Nfxrology
Death has taken from our midst our First Vice-President,
Mercer V. Tilson, of South Hanson, Mass., who passed from
our midst on May 28, 1912. He was ever an earnest worker
for the welfare of the Society, ably seconding the efforts of
our President. One of the local papers published an interest-
ing accotuit of Mr. Tilson, as soldier, genealogist, and author.
His " Tilson Genealogy " has been published since our reunion
of last year, and was the result of much careful investigation,
and is a book of value to genealogists. He was a member
of the Old Bridgewater Historical Society. Mr. Tilson's
funeral was held in the Congregational Church at South
Hanson, June 2, 1912, where his favorite hymns, " Nearer,
my God, to Thee," " Abide with Me," and that beautiful
one, " One Sweetly Solemn Thought," were sung by a quar-
tette. We miss him from our midst and it is due his memory
that we should today express our appreciation of him as a
man and a valued officer of the Society.
Death has also taken a member of the Society this year.
Mrs. Alice P. Burdick, a sister of our President, died January
4, 1912, at the home of her son, Mr. Edwin P. Burdick, in
Millburn, N.J. Mrs. Burdick had been in failing health for a
long time.
In closing this report, your Historian regrets that a long
and severe illness prevents her attendance at the reunion
of the " Society of Descendants of Robert Bartlet, of Plym-
outh, Mass.," and to wish e\'ery member of it Godspeed.
Mariax Longfellow, Historian.
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CALL LOR rUL SIXTH ANNUAL RKUNION
Notice is luTchx- s^ixt'ii ihal llic Sixth Annual ^k'etinl^
and Reunion of the Society of tlie Descenchmts of Robert
Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass., Inc., will be held in the \-estry
of the Porter Church, North Main Street, Brockton, Mass.,
on Saturday, August 16, 19L3. The vestry will be open
all day for the accommodation of those who attend. The
Porter Church is about tliree minutes' walk from the railroad
station. For those who want hotel accommodations would
recommend tlie Fraser house, No. 148 Main Street; rooms
75 cents per (la\- for sinule person, $1.00 for two.
PRO(iRAM
The morning will be dexoted to becoming ac(|uainted with
the members of our famil\- who are present. At 1 L,^() a. m.
the meeting x\ill (-ome to order for the business session. At
1.30 p. m. there will be a recess for dinner, which will be
serx'ed at the " Bon-Ton " restaurant, 24 West Elm Street.
Price, 50 cents per plate. After the dinner there will be
\oluntary speaking and music from members and others for
the remainder of the day.
Rev. George A. Smith, secretary of the American Soci-
ety of Colonial Families has accepted an invitation to be
present. The American Society of Colonial F'amilies in
which the Bartlet Society holcL membership, i)ul)lishes
a magazine called " The Colonial," issued quarterh'. Sub-
scription price lift>' cents per year. Each society has one
page, each issue, for its exclusi\'e use, and the descendants
of such society are requested to send fifty cents to their sec-
retary as a subscription and thereby keep in touch with what
their own and other societies are doing.
The Historian is compiling a complete report of our Soci-
ety's work from its organization in 1908. The meeting of
August 16, 1913, will be included therein. It will be pub-
lished in pamphlet form by the Society and s(jld to members
and others at cost of publication, thus preserving, in perma-
nent form, these valuable records for those who come after
us. It is also proposed to place a certain number of copies of
this report in the larger libraries. We earnestly request all
members who would like a copy for self or friends to notify
the Secretary to that elTect.
The insignia of the society is a pin in white and black
enamel and gold, a facsimile of which \'ou will lind on the
corner of the envelope. Upon receipt of 75 cents by the sec-
retary one of these pins will be mailed to you.
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Extracts from the By-Laws
Article II, Section 1. Membership: Any person by making
application to the Secretary and proving to the satisfaction
of the executive board that the appHcant is a descendant of
Robert (1) and Mary (Warren) Bartlet and paying a mem-
bership fee of $1.00 may become a member of the Society.
Article II, Sec. 2. Associate Members: The officers or
members of other societies of similar character and other in-
terested persons upon application, paying the membership fee
and being approved by the Executive Committee, may be en-
rolled as associate members, entitled to all the privileges of
the Society except voting or holding office. The husband
or wife of a descendant who is not in his or her own right a
descendant of Robert of Plymouth, may be eligible as an
associate member under this clause.
Article V, Sec. 1. The fiscal year of the Society shall
be from January 1 to December 31, inclusive. Members who
join the Society between October 1 and December 31 of any
given year, and pay the membership fee, shall be considered
as having paid their annual dues for the next succeeding
fiscal year.
Article VI, Sec. 1. The dues which each member shall
pay on joining the Society shall be SI. 00, and thereafter there
shall be an annual fee of SI. 00, payable to the Treasurer on
the first day of January each year.
Mrs. Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, Secretary.
Lucius Warren Bartlett, President.
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President's Address of Welcome
Sixth Annual Reunion
Ladies and Gentlemen, Members and Friends of the Society
of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet, of Plymouth, Mass: It
gives me great pleasure to again welcome \'ou to this, our
sixth reunion and fifth anniversar\'.
The persons bearing the name of Bartlett in this country
are legion. Thomas Edward Bartlett in his book, published
in 1892, gives on page 88 the names of twenty-three Bartlets,
original settlers, who came to these New England colonies
previous to 1700 (nearly all of w^hom are known to have had
descendants), Robert of Plymouth being the first. Thomas
Edward's book, and one other somewhat smaller, by Levi
Bartlett of Warner, N. H., are the only genealogical books of
the Bartlets that I am aware of and these contain onl\' their
own direct ancestral lines. Thomas Edward from John
Bartlet of Weymouth and Cumberland, 1666, Levi Bart-
lett from Richard Bartlet of Newbury, 1635.
Of the Bartlett Societies I know of but one other, that of
Robert Bartlet, of Hartford, Conn., 1640, said to have
been of Cambridge, Mass. in 1632, removed to Northampton
in 1665 and was killed there by the Indians in 1676. Octa\'-
ius W. Bartlett, of Meriden, Conn., is Secretary.
In the short time to which I must confine my remarks,
perhaps a brief account of how this Bartlet Society came
into existence might be of interest. Soon after the close of
the war of the Revolution, four families removed from this
section of Massachusetts to Cummington, which at that
time w^as nearly an unbroken forest. They w^ere:
Peter Tower (5), 10 children, from Hingham; Fxlward
Bartlett (5), 12 children, from Stoughton; Edmund Tilson
(7), 13 children, from Halifax; Welcome Tilson (7), 5 children,
from Halifax.
They settled on land adjoining each other. This colony
of forty persons naturally intermarried more or less, as the
result of which we have on our mailing list ai)out four hundred
living descendants of these four families.
Some time previous to the publication of the Tower
Genealogy in 1891, a representative of Charlemagne Tower
came to Cummington and stopped at the home of Luther B.
Tower, a son of Stephen and Milly (Bartlett) Tower. He
w^as there several weeks collecting data for the Tower Geneal-
ogy-
It was at that time I became interested to know who my
Bartlett ancestors were. In the family Bible of Stephen
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and MilK' (Bartlelt) Tower was this record: Benjamin Bart-
let, died April 23, 1786, age 77; Hannah Bartlet, died
December 17, 1799, age 86. Millie (Bartlett) Tower said these
were her grandparents, father and mother of Edward Bart-
lett, who came from Stoughton. Beyond this record no
one of the descendants there could give me any information.
Time went on, and in 1905 a notice came into my hands
from Mercer V. Tilson of South Hanson, that the Tilson
Genealogy was ready for publication, and asking for sub-
scriptions for the book.
My grandmother being a Tilson, I subscribed for a copy.
It came to my mind then that Mr. Tilson would be just the
person to trace my ancestral line in the eastern part of the
state. Correspondence followed, and with this clue from
the family Bible he found on the Plymouth records the mar-
riage of Benjamin Bartlet and Hannah Stevens, April 8,
1737. They were born in Plymouth and the date of their
birth corresponded with the age and date in this Bible rec-
ord. The line from this Benjamin (4) to Robert (1) was eas-
ily traced. They had a son born in Plymouth May 7, 1739.
From that date this family completely disappeared from the
Plymouth records. Where did they go? When did they
arrive in Stoughton? I went to South Hanson, and with
Mr. Tilson we canvassed Stoughton and adjoining places
to find some person who could locate the Bartlet place.
Isaac Bird of Stoughton married one of Edward Bart-
let's daughters and one of his descendants said he would
show me the old Bartlett place, for he had hunted through-
out the neighborhood when a boy. He went with me and
we found the three cellars, which were near together, where
Benjamin Bartlet, Sr., and his two sons, Benjamin, Jr.,
and Edward lived. Mr. Tilson in searching the records
for names of those who owned land adjoining the Bartlet
place, found the name of Jeremiah Beal, who lived in North
Parish of Bridgewater (now Brockton) on North Pearl Street.
The clerk told him that a grandmother of Mr. Beal was living
in Brockton (since deceased). He called on her and found
that she had her grandfather's account book, where were
recorded dealings with Benjamin and Hannah, his wife, and
the sons Benjamin and Edward. It seems they were in
Stoughton about 1760. Later I found in the Mayflower
Descendants Magazine, April, 1910, vital statistics of Dux-
bury: Births, Benjamin Bartlet, son of Benjamin and Han-
nah, his wife, born August 17, 1741. Edward Bartlet, son
of Benjamin and Hannah, his wife, born February 18, 1744,
which shows that they removed from Plymouth to Stoughton
bv wav of Duxburv. There is little more to tell.
In making this canxass in search of llu' Harllcl ])la(t\
I met Mrs. Kutienio V. \a)\v\\ of Whitman, Mrs. luHtli I.
dishing of Micklleboro, our first Secretary, the Birds of
Stoughton, the Packards of Brockton, and others, whose
acquaintance I chd not wish to summariK- drop. Later 1
suggested to Mr. Tilson that he find a j^kice in Brockton
where I could invite tliem for a day, ha\e a (Hnner and social
visit together, not having the remotest idea of forming a Bart-
lett Family Association. Mr. Tilson suggested that I in-
clude any descendants of Robert Bartlet of Ph^mouth. I
prepared a circular and mailed it to all Bartletts whose name
and address I could obtain. In a room in the Y. M. C. A.
building in the cit>- of Brockton, on August 13, 1908, the
meeting was held. Mr. Tilson, m\- \er\' efficient colleague
since 1905, was not aware all this time that he was in any
manner a Bartlett descendant. In the fall of 1908 he dis-
covered in the Duxbury records that through Ruth Bart-
let (4), Benjamin (3), Benjamin (2), Robert (1), that he was,
and had four Mayfloiver ancestors.
At this 1908 meeting the number in attendance and the
interest manifested was such that it was decided to form an
organization, which is now five years old, and as I look over
this company gathered here today it seems to be cjuite a healthy,
growing child. I hope it may attain to many years of life
and usefulness.
Report of thi<: Sfxrktary
Mrs. Ermin.v B. Suhanek
Report of the Fifth Annual Reunion of the
B.\RTLETT Society
The Fifth Annual Meeting and Reunion of the Society
of the Descendants of Robert (1) and Mary (Warren) Bart-
let, of Plymouth, Mass., was held at Mountain Park, Mt.
Tom, Holyoke, Mass., July 27, 1912.
The business meeting was called to order at 12 m. 1)\' the
President, Lucius Warren Bartlett, of Hartford, Conn.,
and was opened with a song entitled, " Promised," by Miss
Mary A. Hopkins, of Weymouth, Mass.
The President gave a hearty and cordial welcome to all
present, followed by a short address. No literary program
was planned for the occasion as it was desired to give the time
to sociability and getting acquainted with our Bartlett
family.
The President in his address made mention of the death
of two members of our family during the year: Mrs. Alice
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p. Burdick, of Hartford, Conn., who passed to the higher life
January 4, 1912, and Mr. Mercer V. Tilson, of South Hanson,
Mass., May 28, 1912, paying a beautiful and most fitting
tribute to our late First Vice-President, Mr. Tilson. He also
gave some very interesting facts and reminiscences of the
descendants of Robert Bartlet (1) in relation to their con-
nection with the Towers and Tilsons of Western Mass-
achusetts.
The Secretary's report of the fourth annual reunion,
held August 12, 1911, was read and accepted. The Treas-
urer's report for the year was read and accepted. In it
mention was made of nine additional contributions toward
the expense of the Memorial, viz:
Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet
Mrs. Hattie R. Bartlctt
Mr. W. Ellery Bird
Mr. Charles H. Bartlctt
Mr. William H. Bartlctt ....
Miss L. Florence Bartlctt ....
Mrs. Edith Carman Hay ....
Mr. Horace Bird ......
Total $9.50
Our Historian, Mrs. Marian Longfellow, being absent
on account of illness, her interesting paper was read by
your Secretary.
The following were then elected officers for the ensuing
year :
President, Mr. Lucius Warren Bartlctt, Hartford, Conn.
First Vice-President, Mr. Charles L. Bartlett, Dorchester,
Mass.
Second Vice-President, Mr. John A. Bartlett, Brockton,
Mass.
Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. P>mina B. Suhanek, Hol-
yoke, Mass.
Historian, Mrs. Marian Longfellow, Brookline, Mass.
Under the head of new business, suggestions were called
for as to the time and place of the next reunion.
No further business being presented, at 1.15 the meeting
adjourned for dinner.
Following the dinner a group picture was taken of those
present at the meeting, some fifty or more in number, after
which they separated for the mountain and other places of
interest.
Your Secretary was ably assisted during the business
session by Miss Alice M. Thrall, of W^indsor, Conn., and by
Mrs. Arthur L. Bartlett, of Springfield, Mass. There were
on sale in the hall, photo-engravings of the Bartlet coat-of-
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arms, executed b\' tlic Bartlett Kiigra\inti C\)., of Springtield,
Mass. There arc more of them for sale, together with a
short history of the coat-of-arms, i)rice twenty-five cents.
Much credit and thanks are due the Mountain Park and
Mt. Tom management, for their excellent dinner, free use of
the hall for our gathering and most considerate and kindly
attention throughout the day. It will be a long time before
we find a more convenient and enjoyable place for our re-
union. We only regretted that more of our members were not
present to enjoy the day with us.
The President's address and the Historian's paper are
appended to this report.
Respectfully submitted,
Ermixa Bartlett Suhaxek, Secretary.
Treasurer's Repcm^t
From July 27, 1912 to August 16, 1913
Receipts
Dues for 1911
" " 1912
" " 1913
" " 1914
Total dues
For sale of sixty badge pins
For sale of cards at reunion
Subscriptions to Colonial Magazine
Cash on hand at last report
Total Receipts
Expenditures
Paid balance of deficit for 1911
Janitor service at reunion, 1912
Newspaper reports with cost of mailing
Sixty badge pins with boxes for mailing
Expressage on record books
Traveling expenses of Historian from Boston
return ......
Stationery and printing ....
First and second issues of Colonial Magazine
Total expenses ....
Balance in Treasury
$0.50
2.00
104.00
1.00
$107.50
to Holyoke and
$107.50
45 , 00
.40
11.50
3.38
$167.78
$11.00
1.00
2.50
41.90
1.25
6.05
37.44
9.50
$110.64
57.14
$167.78
Respectfully submitted,
Ermina B. Suhanek, Treasurer.
Note. — Reports of the Treasurer have been made out from the date
of one annual meeting to the next, although since the change in the By-
Laws, the Fiscal Year for membership fees is the calendar year from
January to January.
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RKFORF FOR THK YKAR 1913
'I'hc work of ihe year has \)vvu niainK' of correspondence,
no small part of it in relation to ancestry falling to the lot of
your President. We have kept no record of the number of
letters or addressed envelopes mailed. The records neces-
sarv to be kept and letters compelling our attention being
quite sufficient to consume all the spare time at our command.
In the month of December, 1912, the following call was
issued:
HoLVOKE, Mass., December 13, 1912.
Tlierc will he a nu'cting of the Executive Board of the Robert Bart-
let (1) Society, Inc., at the Committee Room of the Park Street Church,
Boston, on Thursday, January 9, 1913, at 2.30 \\ m. for the transaction of
any business proper to come befori' the nieelini;.
Per order,
Kknhna B. Schanek, Secrctdi-y.
I.. W. P>\RTi,ETT, Preside)!!.
Following is the report of the meeting:
Board meeting of the Societ\' of the Descendants of
Robert Bartlet (1) of Plymouth.
A meeting of the Executive Board of the Society of the
Descendants of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth was held at
the Park Street Church, Boston, at 2.30 p. m. on January 9,
1913, the President, Lucius Warren Bartlett in the chair.
In the unavoidable absence of the Secretary and Treas-
urer, Mrs. Frmina B. Suhanek, of Holyokc, Mass., the His-
torian, Mrs. Marian Longfellow, served as Secretary pro
teni.
The first report was that of the Treasurer, and was as
follows:
Rcreipls S75.78
Disbursements 60.24
Balance $15.54
This report was accepted and filed.
The ne.xt order of business was the choice of time and
place for the next annual reunion. It was moved by Mrs.
Marian Longfellow, and seconded by Mr. Charles H. Bartlett,
that the place be Brockton, Mass. This was done because
Brockton was the scene of the first meeting at time of organ-
ization, and because a number of meml)ers resided in and
about Brockton. The motion was unanimously carried.
It was mo\e(l 1)\- Mr. Charles H. Bartlett, and seconded
b\- Mr. loiin A. Bartlett, that the lime be Saturda\-, August
16. 1913. This was carried.
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The President subniitled a plan tor ininted mailer rtl-
ati\-e U) this reunion, and also rehitixe lo hills to he issued loi"
dues to he sent out al an earh' dale. Mrs. Marian Long-
fellow nio\cd, and Mr. John A. Harllell seconded ihe niolion
that the President he aulhori/ed lo ha\e sueh prinlinu. done.
This was carried.
The President staled thai all hadi^es of ihe Socielx which
he had had on hand hatl been sold to members, and il was
mo\'ed b>' Mrs. Marian Longfellow and seconded b\' Mr.
Charles H. Bartlett, that the President be authorized to pur-
chase ten more pins to suji])!)' demands ihal mighl be made
therefor. This was also carried.
The President submitted a proposition relatixe to jjrinl-
ing and having ready for sale after the next annual reimion on
August 16, 1913, a report that should co\'er the histor>- of the
Society's inception, August 13, 1908, down to, and including
the annual meeting of 1913, should funds warrant the Society
so doing. It was moved by the President, who resigned the
chair for that purpose, that such report be printed, subject
to the condition imposed. This motion was seconded by
Mr. John A. Bartlett and carried. The President then
resumed the chair.
The proposition submitted by the American Society of
Colonial Families that a publication be printed for the uses
and benefit of that Society and the affiliated families, was
presented to the Board, and the ofTer of the American Soci-
ety of Colonial Families to assign one hundred copies per year,
at an annual cost to the Family Association of $16.00, each
family of the Association to have one page of said publi-
cation for its exclusive use, was accepted, Mr. John A. Bart-
lett making said motion, which was seconded b\' Mr. Charles
H. Bartlett.
Mrs. Marian Longfellow was appointed as editor of such
a page in the general publication.
There being no further business the Board adjourned
and later took part in the reception and dinner of the Ameri-
can Society of Colonial Families.
Marian Longfellow, Secretary pro teiii.
We have on file one hundred and forty-five names, of
persons who are, or have been members of the Bartlett Society,
representing fourteen different states, viz.: Massachusetts,
(\)nnecticut, Maine, New York, New Jerse\-, Penns\i\ania,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Utah, Ari-
zona, Florida, and Texas.
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From this number of members, five have signified during
the past year their desire for different reasons to give up
their membership.
We have lost since organization five of our members by
death, two during the past year, of whom your Historian will
make mention.
We have gained seven new members during the year,
and have beside ten associate members.
We are extremely pleased to be able to sa>' that from a
present membership of one hundred and fifty-five, one hun-
dred and four have greatly encouraged and aided the work of
the Society by promptly paying their dues.
The outlook for the Society is gratifying, and we bespeak
for it a happy and prosperous future.
Respectfully submitted,
Ermina B. Suhanek, Secretary.
In the absence of Mrs. Marian Longfellow, the Histo-
rian, her report was read by Mrs. Ermina D. Suhanek, the
Secretary, and was as follows:
" Again I am obliged to send you my greetings instead
of bearing them in person; but far from having lost my inter-
est in this organization of which I have the honor to be His-
torian, I find that this Society, its objects, its work, and its
bond of good fellowship, tightens its grip upon me as the days
go on, and that while I have been compelled to give up some
activities among the clubs, I cannot let my interest in this
organization wane. Whether I continue to serve you in
my present capacity or to work in the ranks, I shall ever give
my best efforts for its purposes.
" The w^ork of an historian must look backward and make
record of the past. The future is unknown, but the past is
written in indelible characters.
" What a nation, a state, an organization, or an individ-
ual does is forever done; no power, no desire may erase it
from the annals of time. Therefore is the oflice one of re-
sponsibility and one to be carefully and thoughtfully entered
upon, and faithfully carried out. To fail you even in one
instance would be dishonorable. The work of your Society
is growing rapidly; there is steady advancement and the Soci-
ety has taken its place, and a place of no mean proportions,
in that galaxy of ' The American Society of Colonial Fam-
ilies,' whose able Secretary, Rev. George A. Smith, is with
you today. He is an optimist of the optimists, and his greet-
ing to you today will be full of cheer and achie\ement.
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" During tlie past >ear llu- imMnbership of this Society
has grown to 150. \'our founder and President, Lucius
Warren Bartlett, has gi\en freel>-, as is his custom, of his
time, strength, and watchful interest to the Society, which
owes so much already to him. Your Secretary's long, faith-
ful, and efficient service is well known to you, and Mrs.
Ermina B. Suhanek needs no praise from me. ' Young blood,'
the slogan of the times, is represented amply in >our two Vice-
Presidents, Charles W. Bartlett and John A. Bartlett, who
may be trusted to put their shoulder to the wheel and get us
out of dangerous ' ruts,' should we show an inclination to
subside into such.
" You meet today in a bustling, typical New England
city, a city of accomplishment. In this neighborhood,
though far from realizing the dimensions to which it was to
grow, came Bartlets of the old stock. It is to honor them,
second only to the honor paid to their progenitor, that we
have chosen this place for our pilgrimage, this year.
" On that great pilgrimage, in which their steps turned
generations ago, have also entered the feet of some of our ow^n
beloved membership in this Society and on the scroll of that
vast army ha\'e been inscribed the names of Mrs. Amanda B.
Waterman of Kingston, Mass., who died in June, 1912, but
the notice of whose death had not been sent in to our Sec-
retary previous to the meeting at Mountain Park, Mt. Tom,
in July of 1912.
" We have also to record the passing on of Mrs. Emily
Bartlett, of Worthington, Mass., who was with you but one
short year ago. Let us stand for a minute in silent memorial
to those who have preceded us into the ' great beyond.'
" There is a higher light, a broader outlook granted to
them, but for us all remains the opportunity to make our
life now of real benefit to our kind.
" There is an old hymn beginning with these words:
" ' God be with us till we meet again,' and it is with this
wish that I subscribe myself as your Historian,
Marian Longfellow."
An interesting report of the work of the past year was then
read by Mrs. Suhanek and was followed by her report as
Treasurer.
Secretary's Report
There is a membership of one hundred and fifty, and a
mailing list of six hundred persons who are connected with
the Society by ties of blood.
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Miss Isabelle M. Bartlctt moved that the Secretary be in-
structed to write a letter of sympathy to the Historian upon
the death of her brother, Mr. WilUam Pitt Preble Longfellow,
of Cambridge, Mass. The motion was seconded by Miss
Mary A. Hopkins, and was carried.
The re-election of the present officers was unanimous,
and the vote of the Society was cast for the following:
President, Lucius Warren Bartlett, Windsor, Conn.
First Vice-President, Charles H. Bartlett, Dorchester,
Mass.
Second Vice-President, John A. Bartlett, Brockton, Mass.
Secretary (uid Preasiirer, Mrs. Ermina D. B. Suhanek, Hol-
\'oke, Mass.
Historian, Mrs. Marian Longfellow, Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Suhanek showed the Bartlet coat-of-arms, and the
President exhibited a mortar and pestle which Mrs. Sarah
Achsah Bartlett of Plymouth had forwarded to the Society
through him as a gift, in October, 1910, of Charles Holmes,
whose ancestress, Betsey Bartlett, the wife of Amasa
Holmes, was said to ha\'e brought over in the good ship An7t
in 1623.
This mortar and pestle had been kept in the family all
these years. It is a precious addition to the other relics in the
possession of the Society.
The place of meeting of the next reunion is left to the selec-
tion of the E.xecutive Board. Suggestions, however, were
called for b\- the President in order to ascertain the prefer-
ence of the members.
At 1.15 the meeting adjourned and the members were
photographed in a group in the grounds of the Porter Church.
Luncheon followed, the blessing being asked by the Rev.
William P. Bartlett.
At 2.30 p. m. the afternoon session was called to order by
the President. Social enjoyment was the order of this meet-
ing. There were brief addresses by Rev. George A. Smith,
Secretary of the American Society of Colonial Families, who
has been an honored guest at several of the reunions, and
who spoke in his usual forceful and interesting vein. An-
other speaker was Rev. W'illiam P. Bartlett whose remarks
were listened to with interest.
The simple and straightforward manner and earnest
words of the President met with the usual warm response
from those present.
Miss Mary A. Hopkins of Weymouth, Mass., a regular
and entluisiastic member of the Society, was the xocalist ot
tlu' (la\-, singing at the morning session the reunion song ot
this \'ear, words b\- lierself. It was entitled, " Again Do
I ^6 J
We Greet You," aiul was sun^ to tlic air of " F'air Har-
vard," or, to be more exact, to that to which Tom Moore's
words, "BeHe\'e Me If All Those Kiulearins^ ^'oung Charms,"
is sung.
The exercises of the chix' came to a nuisical close 1)\' tlu'
singing, by Miss Hopkins, of the anthem of the " Old North
Chapter, D. A. R., the music being " America," and the words.
" Flag of Our Nati\'c Land," b\- its Regent.
A general historN' of the Societ\- of the Descendants of
Robert Bartlet of PKniouth, Inc., is being compiled by its
Historian, and will be published in the near future 1)\' the
Society. Copies ma\- be i:)urchased at cost upon application
to the Secretary.
Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Luc-ius W.
Bartlett, of Windsor; Mrs. Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, of Hol-
yoke; Mrs. Emma Bartlett Thrall, of Windsor; Miss Alice M.
Thrall, of Windsor; Charles H. Bartlett, of Dorchester; Mr.
and Mrs. Edward H. Tillson, of Naperville, 111.; Rev. William
P. Bartlett of Canaan, N. H.; Miss Lucy E. Ayer, of Need-
ham; Elisha Avery Tillson, of South Hanson; R. F. Tillson,
of Fall River; Mrs. John M. Rice, of Waltham; Mrs. D. R.
Puffer, of West New^ton; John A Bartlett; Miss Elizabeth D.
Barclay, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Flora A. Williamson; H. A.
Bird; Charles Wesley Tower, of Springfield; George Warren
Tower, of Hingham; Mr. and Mrs. James K. Bartlett, of Plym-
outh; Leroy C. Bartlett. of Marshfield; Mrs. Mary Bird Keith,
of East Bridgewater; Mrs. Anna Johnson, of Dorchester; Miss
Helen Bird, of East Bridgewater; Mr. and Mrs David T.
Burrill; Miss Mary A. Hopkins, of Weymouth; Herman
Packard, Mrs. Susan M. Hopkins, of \\'eymouth; Mrs.
E. J. Eager, of Milton; Henry Marshall Bird, of Stoughton;
Mrs. Rebecca C. W. Boomer; Miss Mary F. Harlow, of
North Easton; Miss Mary L. Bartlett, of Rancocas. N. J.;
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Bartlett of Springfield; Mrs. Mary
M. Farry, of Dorchester; Miss Isabelle M. Bartlett; Mrs.
Jessie Bartlett Sheibley, of Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs.
George A. Smith, of Boston; Paul W^ Conant, of Dorchester;
Miss Mary A. Stevens, of Lewiston, Me.; Harold ¥.. E.
Ste\'ens, of Lewiston, Me.
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AGAIN DO WE (iREKT VOU UPON THIS GLAD DAY
Sung at the Sixth Reunion of the " Society of Deseeudaiits of
Robert Bartlet of PIvnioiith, Massoehiiseits," Brockton,
August 16, 1913
Tune, " Fair Har\arci."
Words by
Miss Makv A. Hopkins, of Weymouth, Mass.
Again do we greet you upon this glad day,
And renew our firm friendship once more;
And welcome with pleasure fond memory's sway
In the hearts that are now brimming o'er.
In the Home where our ancestors' story is toUl,
W'liich we cherish with fondest dehght,
In hearts that are strengthened, and friendships enrolled,
This Reunion now sheds its bright light !
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)HUS ha\e the years glided b>' since the
Society of the Descendants of Robert Bart-
let of Plymouth was launched, and the Socie-
\' has grown in slrenglh and in numbers as
should be the case.
What it has accomplished so far is small
\iew of what its founder and charter
members, and the general bod\- hope it may attain. It has
grown from the tin\' acorn to the stately tree and bids fair
to last.
The motto of the Bartlet coat-of-arms is Mature — in
good time, and so we, not without justification, \enture to
hope and look forward to that "good time" when it shall
have arrived at its perfection.
There remains now but to include the biographical sketches
of its officers.
The Historian feels a most natural reluctance to include
in a history compiled b>' herself, so \ery flattering a sketch
as has been written about her; but she has been warned that
her " superior officers " have so ruled and that her respon-
sibilitv ceases when she becomes the subject of the sketch.
Editor's Note. — Concerning some' repetition, it must be borne in
mind that mention of the same farts ha^'e been necessarily made on sc\-
eral occasions.
This is also noticeable in giving the history of the Bartletts of America
when different officers or ex-officers treat of the subject.
There is an old saying, " You cannot ha\-e tO(j much of a good tiling,"
and however some of us may hv inclined to endorse the statement, and
some not, we fall back upon the lenicnc\- of our readers and trust to tln'ir
mercy.
It has been said also that all poets are mad. 1 am cjuite of the opinion
that many genealogists are so, or in a fair way of becoming so !
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BIOGRAPHY
No. 1
LUCIUS WARRKN BARTLETT, President
Lucius Warren Bartlett, the founder and President of
the Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet of Plym-
outh, Mass., since its organization in August, 1908, was born
in Cummington, Mass., April 3, 184L Cummington was
the home tow^n of the poet William Cullen Bryant. Mr.
Bartlett was the third child and only son in a family of eight
children. His father dying when he was sixteen years old,
his education was that which could be obtained in the public
schools at that time. He carried on the small farm left by
his father, taught school winters, until in April, 1867, at the
age of twenty-six he went to Hartford, Conn., and entered the
Bryant & Stratton Commercial School as a pupil; received
his diploma in three months' time, being engaged to fill the
position of Professor of Mathematics in the Bryant & Strat-
ton Commercial School, and took up bookkeeping and work
of expert accountant as a profession and Hartford has been
his residence since, with the exception of ten years, 1872-1882,
when he resided just across the Connecticut Ri\'er, in East
Hartford. He built a house in W'indsor in 1912, six miles
north of Hartford, where he now resides.
Mr. Bartlett's ancestors are as follows:
Robert Bartlet (1), Joseph (2), Benjamin (3), Benja-
min (4), Edward (5), Ephraim (6), Ephraim T. (7), Lucius
Warren Bartlett (8). His mother was Salome Tower,
daughter of Warren and Rhoda (Tower) Tower. Warren and
Rhoda were descendants in two separate Tower lines from
John Tower (1) of Hingham, Mass., 1637, the original
ancestor of the Tower Genealogical Societ\'. On the pater-
nal side his grandmother was Elizabeth Tillson (7), a direct
descendant of Edmund Tillson (1) of Plymouth, 1638. Ben-
jamin (4) removed from Plymouth to Du.xbury about 1740,
where Edward (5) was born. After 1750 Benjamin (4) and
his sons Benjamin (5) and Edward (vS) were in Stoughton,
Mass. Their three houses were only a few rods apart and
the cellars were plainly marked at this date. The farm was
widely known as the Bartlett farm. The picture of the first
annual outing at Brockton, Mass., August 13, 1908, was taken
at this Bartlett farm. Edward Bartlett (5) remoxed with
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his family of twelve children from Stoughlon to Cumming-
ton, Mass., in 1795.
Peter Tower (5) removed from Hingham to C'umming-
ton near the close of the Re\oltitionary War. At this time
his several children (ten) went there also. Stephen Tower
(6), one of the ten, married Anna Bowker of Scituate, April
2, 1776. Stephen (6) and Anna (Bowker) Tower had thir-
teen children born in Hingham and Cummington. Rhoda
Tower (7), mother of Salome w^as the thirteenth child. The
Tillsons, Elizabeth (7), Edmund (7), and Welcome (7), chil-
dren of Ephraim (6) and Fear (Waterman) Tilson. born in
Halifax, Mass., were in Cummington, Mass., about 1810.
Elizabeth Tilson (7) married Ephraim Bartlett (6) son of
Edward (5), of Cummington, Mass., October 15, 1812.
Edmund Tilson (7) married, November 7, 1807, Phebe Bart-
lett (6). She was sister of Ephraim (6). Edmund and
Phebe had thirteen children. Welcome Tilson (7) married,
August 27, 1820, Leah Tower. Leah Tower's mother was
Rachel Bartlett (6), a sister of Ephraim (6). Welcome Til-
son (7) purchased the Bryant farm in Cummington in 1834
of Austin Bryant, a son of Dr. Bryant, and brother of
William Cullen Bryant. He sold the place to William Cul-
len Bryant in 1865, having resided there thirty-one years.
The parents of Salome Tower died when she, the eldest child,
was sixteen years of age. She went to live with Welcome and
Leah (Tower) Tilson, and was married in the Bryant home,
June 1, 1837, to Ephraim T. Bartlett (7).
These three families, Edward Bartlett (5), twelve children;
Stephen Tower (6), thirteen children; Edmund Tilson (7),
thirteen children, owned farms adjoining each other and their
homes were less than a mile apart. Four of the children of
Edward (5) married Towers, and two of them married Til-
sons. From the foregoing four families, one Bartlett, one
Tower, and two Tilsons, have descended about four hundred
of the Bartlett descendants we have on our mailing list.
The father of Lucius Warren Bartlett was one of the
original " free soil " men, voting in 1840, and who had be-
come a Garrison Abolitionist as the term was known then.
His farm sheltered the fugitive slave in more than one instance.
He w^as also a leading member in the church which had a
free platform.
Lucius Warren Bartlett was a teacher in the district
schools of Hinsdale, Worthington, and other towns, begin-
ning his work along these lines when but eighteen years of
age. In 1860 he went to New York City and entered the em-
ploy of Cutter and Tower, stationers, remaining there one
year; his health breaking down, however, he returned to
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Cummington and carried on the farm until it was sold. Be-
fore he left New York he saw the steamer that had been sent
to reinforce Fort Sumter, and saw the cannon ball mark in
her side. He was also fortunate enough to hear Abraham
Lincoln's great speech at Cooper Institute at that time.
A man of strong convictions, of which he has the cour-
age, and a close follower of duty, he went in the spring of
1866 to Florence and then to Northampton, where he worked
for Samuel L. Hill, who owned and operated the mills of the
Nonotuck Silk Company. In 1867 Mr. Bartlett went to
Hartford, Conn.
Mr. Bartlett has remained in Hartford, Conn., since 1867.
He is now the factory manager of the Sterling Manufactur-
ing Company.
In 1871 he married Mary Chalmers, of Scotch birth, at
Thompsonville, Conn., and had six children by her, of whom
five are living. His wife died in 1900, and in 1902 Mr. Bart-
lett married Mrs. Zilpha (Bartlett) Crozier, she being of Bart-
let descent herself.
Always interested in politics, Lucius Warren Bartlett,
in 1884, declared himself on the side of the Prohibition Ticket,
and has been interested in the subject of prohibition ever since.
He was the treasurer, and has been on the Executive Board
of the State Council for several years. He joined the Put-
nam Phalanx and was its secretary, compiling its history in
a very attractive form, and has been a captain in its veteran
corps. He is " Past Grand " of the I. O. O. F. and a trustee
in this organization for the past fifteen years.
Those of us who are privileged to know him as a private
indi\idual know his worth and the many acts of helpfulness
and kindness which are a marked characteristic of his daily life.
He has been untiring and most generous in his work for
this Society and has filled the position of President with wis-
dom and ability.
The line of Lucius Warren Bartlett is as follows:
j Robert Bartlet (1)
/ Mary Warren
i Joseph Bartlet (2)
( Hannah Pope
\ Benjamin Bartlet (3)
( Sarah Barnes
\ Benjamin Bartlet (4)
I Hannah Stephens
j Edward Bartlett (5)
/ Zilpah Cole
j Ephraim Bartlett (6)
/ Elizabeth Tilson
\ Ephraim T. Bartlett (7)
] Salome Tower
I Lucius Warren Bartlett (8)
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Bkvaxt House at Clmmixgtox, Mass.
It is evident that this was a verj^ attractive spot, and was dear
to the heart of the poet, as is shown by his
repurchasing it
Many years ago the poet Bryant presented Mrs. Salome (Tower),
wife of Ephraim Tilson Bartlctt, the mother of Lucius Warren Bartlelt,
with an autograph copy of his poem entitled "The Rivulet." It is a
matter of deep concern, not only to her family, but to the Society, that so
valuable a gift should have been lost in the passage of years.
THE RIVULET
This little rill, that from the springs
Of yonder grove its current brings.
Plays on the slope awhile, and then
Goes prattling into groves again,
Oft to its warbling waters drew
My little feet, when life was new.
When woods in early green were dressed,
And from the chambers of the west
The warm breezes, tra\'elling out,
Breathed the new scent of flowers about,
My truant steps from home would stray,
LIpon its grassy side to play,
List the brown thrasher's vernal hymn.
And crop the violet on its brim.
With blooming cheek and open brow,
As young and gay, sweet rill, as thou.
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And when the days of boyhood came,
And I had grown in love with fame,
Duly I sought thy banks, and tried
My first rude numbers by thy side.
Words cannot tell how bright and ga\'
The scenes of life before me lay.
Then glorious hopes, that now to speak
Would bring the blood into my cheek.
Passed o'er me; and I wrote, on high.
A name I deemed should never die.
Years change thee not. Upon yon hill
The tall, old maples, verdant still.
Yet tell, in grandeur of decay.
How swift the years have passed away,
Since first, a child, and half afraid,
I wandered in the forest shade.
Thou, ever-joyous rivulet.
Dost dimple, leap, and prattle yet;
And sporting, with the sands that pave
The windings of thy silvery wave.
And dancing to thy own wild chime.
Thou laughest at the lapse of time
The same sweet sounds are in my ear
My early childhood loved to hear;
As pure thy limpid waters run;
As bright they sparkle to the sun;
As fresh and thick the bending ranks
Of herbs that line thy oozy banks;
The violet there, in soft May dew,
Comes up, as modest and as blue;
As green amid thy current's stress.
Floats the scarce-rooted watercress;
And the brown ground-bird, in thy glen,
Still chirps as merrily as then.
Thou changest not — but I am changed
Since first thy pleasant banks I ranged;
And the grave stranger, came to see
The play-place of his infancy.
Has scarce a single trace of him
Who sported once upon thy brim.
The visions of my youth are past
Too bright, too beautiful to last,
I've tried the world — it wears no more
The coloring of romance it wore.
Yet well has Nature kept the truth
She promised in my earliest youth.
The radiant beauty shed abroad
On all the glorious works of God,
Shows freshly, to my sobered eye.
Each charm it wore in days gone by.
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^\■t a few \rars shall jxiss a\\a>-,
And I, all treiiibling, weak, and gray,
Bowed to the earth, which waits to fold
My ashes in the embracing mould,
(If haply the dark will of Fate
Indulge my life so long a date).
May come for the last time to look
Upon my childhood's favorite brook.
Then dimly on my eye shall gleam
The sparkle of thy dancing stream;
And faintly on my ear shall fall
Thy prattling current's merry call;
Vet shalt thou flow, as glad and bright
As when thou met'st m\- infant sighl.
And I shall sleep — and on thy side,
As ages after ages glide,
Children their early sports shall try,
And pass to hoary age and die,
But thou, unchanged from year to year,
Gayly shalt play, and glitter here;
Amid young flowers and tender grass
Thy endless infancy shall pass;
And, singing down thy narrow glen,
Shall mock the fading race of men.
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No. 2.
CHARLES H. BARTLETT 1st V. P.
Mr. Bartlett was born in Boston, educated in the public
schools of that city, and is a young man of pleasing person-
ality and of an earnest devotion to the Society and all it rep-
resents.
He has been one of its workers since the early days, and
his bright optimism is a potent factor in the questions that
arise at times, as to the best method to be followed on some
given point.
Where the Bartletts congregate one is sure to see Charles
H. Bartlett, ever willing and helpful.
Mr. Bartlett's home is in Dorchester and his business is
connected with the engineering department of the N. E. Tel.
and Tel. Co. While this is his occupation he is deeply inter-
ested in music, being a composer of song and other melodies.
He is also an excellent pianist, and is generally chosen to
act as chairman of the committees on music for the several
reunions.
He fills his office to satisfaction and is not afflicted with
that most troublesome of creatures, the " presidential bee,"
but stands ever ready to support the present incumbent.
Charles H. Bartlett's line of descent from Robert Bart-
let and Mary Warren, his wife:
j Robert Bartlet /
I Mary Warren /
j Joseph Bartlet
( Hannah Pope
\ Robert Bartlet
/ Sarah Cook
\ Lemuel Bartlet
"( Mary Doty
j William Bartlett
/ Mary Holmes
( Clement Bartlett
i Frances T. Whittemore
j Henry L. Bartlett
/ Elvina F. Russell
■ Charles H. Bartlett
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No. 3
JOHN ALBERT BARTLETT, 2d V. P.
Young blood among the officers of this Society is repre-
sented by the two Vice-Presidents.
John Albert Bartlett is in his second year of office as second
Vice-President.
He was born in Brockton, where he has Hved always, and
was educated in the public schools of that city. He was
connected with one of the local newspapers and was at one
lime a clerk in one of Brockton's drug stores.
His present business is in automobile lines. He is a
member of the Porter Congregational Church of Brockton,
and is connected with a number of societies and clubs.
Mr. John A. Bartlett is always ready to act with the
First Vice-President in work for the Society, and among the
various clubs to which he belongs, the Society of Descend-
ants of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass., stands very
high in his regard.
He is ninth in descent from Robert Bartlet of Plymouth,
Mass., as follows:
John Albert Bartlett's line of descent from Robert Bart-
let and Mary Warren, his wife:
\ Robert Bartlet
/ Mary Warren
\ Joseph Bartlet
/ Hannah Pope
\ Benjamin Bartlet
/ Sarah Barnes
\ Benjamin Bartlet
I Hannah Stephens
S Benjamin Bartlet
I Susannah Hayden
\ Ebenezer Bartlett
"/ Martha Manley
\ George Washington Bartlett
'/ Harriet Newell Foster
( John M. Bartlett
) Martha E. McMillen
\ John Albert Bartlett
It is the policy of the Society to recognize the younger
members of its family and to bestow office upon such, rather
than to confine all the honors to its veterans.
We look for conspicuous service from these two young
men, in years to come; meanwhile they are taking up the
work of the Society and are showing commendable interest
therein.
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No. 4
MRS. ERMINA (BARTLETT) SUHANEK
Secretary-Treasurer
Mrs. Suhanek has filled the ofiice of Secretary-Treasurer
with satisfaction to the Society and has been untiring in her
efforts for its welfare.
Like her brother, Lucius Warren Bartlett, she was born
in Cummington, Mass. She was but thirteen years of age
when her father died, and at fifteen she began to teach in a
summer school. In the spring of 1861 she went to Oneida Sem-
inary for one year. In 1863 she taught school at Brookfield,
and remained in that work for one year. In 1864 she en-
tered the Westfield Normal School, from which she gradu-
ated in 1866. She taught at Hadley in that same year and
followed the profession of teaching until 1889, when she mar-
ried Joseph Suhanek, an Austrian by birth, but a natural-
ized citizen of the United States. In 1894 Mr. Suhanek
died, and in 1907 his widow removed to Holyoke where she
has since resided. It has been an exceedingly difficult
matter to obtain data about the Secretary, because of her
great modesty in speaking of herself.
It would be unfair to close this modest biography of a
woman whose work has been so important to the Society,
without adding a word as to her personal character.
Endowed with a peculiarly lovable nature, with a heart
open to the needs of all with whom she comes in contact, a
writer of very sweet verse and a well-read woman, Mrs.
Suhanek goes on in her quiet way, filling a place in this world's
economy that is far more important than that of many a more
showy person.
Mrs. Suhanek is the author of a \olume of original verse
entitled " Songs of Friendship," 1913.
Mrs. Suhanek's line is:
j Robert Bart let (1)
/ Mary Warren
\ J(jseph Bartlel (2)
i Hannah Pope
j Benjamin Bartlet (3)
( Sarah Barnes
\ Benjamin Bartlet (4j
/ Hannah Stephens
j Edward Bartlett (5j
i Zilpah Cole
j Ephraim Bartlett (6)
I Elizabeth Tilson
\ Ephraim T. Bartlett (7)
/ Salome Tower
\ Ermina Bartlett (8)
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No. 5
MRS. MARIAN LONGFELLOW. HISTORLAN
Al the Fourlh Annual Reunion of the Socie't>' of llu'
Descendants of Robert Bartlett (1) of Plymouth, Mass., our
Historian gave us a history of the Society from its organiza-
tion to that time, August 12, 191 L In that historical paper
she inclucled a brief account of the life of its Presidenl and
other ofiticcrs not including herself.
The life of our Historian has been one of such untisual
activity in her special line of work that I gladly append to
the record of the Society this brief account of it.
Marian Adele Longfellow was born in Portland, Me.,
and is a niece of the poet Longfellow, whom we can also
claim as a distinguished descendant of our own Robert Bart-
let (1). Her father w^as Stephen Longfellow (5), elder
iirother of the poet Henry W. Longfellow. Her mother was
Marianne Preble, daughter of Hon. William Pitt Preble,
Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine and at one time En\'oy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court
of the Netherlands.
Marian Longfellow was educated in and near Boston.
She spent sixteen years in W^ashington, D. C, when she
was one of the press correspondents on the White House
lists, during the administration of President Theodore Roose-
\'elt. She founded the League of American Pen W^omen in
1897, an organization of newspaper women and authors.
She is a charter member, being No. 203, of the National
Society Daughters of The American Re\'olution; a member
of the Society of Mayflower Descendants; of the National
Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America;
of the National Society of New England \\'omen; President
of the Daughters of Maine, and is a member of the "Founders
Society " of the Massachusetts D. A. R.
Marian Longfellow founded the Old North Chapter of Bos-
ton D. A. R., November 25, 1911, and is its Regent. She is
also a member of the Hereditary Orders of Americans of Armo-
rial Ancestry and of the Descendants of Colonial Governors;
a member of the Alden Kindred of America; Historian of
the Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlett (1) of
Plymouth, Mass.; former chairman of the Board of Assist-
ants of the American Society of Colonial Families; member
of the National Geographical and of the National Genealog-
ical Societies of Washington, D. C.
Marian Longfellow married first, William Francis Morris.
May 7, 1876, by whom she had three children: William
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Longfellow Morris, a lawyer in New York City; Madeline
Preble Morris, now Mrs. Paul Scharf of Washington, D. C,
and Henry Wadsworth Morris, of Nevada, who is interested
in mining.
On December 15, 1891, she married second, Michael
Francis O'Donoghue, a lawyer in the Patent Office Branch of
the Government Service. There are no children by her
second marriage.
At the time of the third annual reunion of the Bartlet
Society, June 16, 1910, in Plymouth, Mass., she was invited
to make the address, and chose for her subject " Our Pilgrim
Ancestors and the Debt We Owe Them."
As an author, Marian Longfellow has written of the ques-
tions of the day, especially along lines of reform; she has pub-
lished a volume of poems entitled " Contrasted Songs,"
and translated from the French and published " A Romance
of the West Indies"; has translated other French works,
and has written short stories for adults and children.
As a lecturer, she has a wide range of subjects, historical,
literary, and otherwise, which have won for her much praise
throughout New England, New York, and Washington,
D. C. She has been of great service to the Bartlet Society
during her membership and we hope to claim her for long years
to come as our gifted and beloved Historian.
Sketches of her are to be found in the publication
" Woman's Who's Who of America," by The American Com-
monwealth Company, and The National Encyclopedia of
American Biography, published by James F. White Co.,
also of New York, besides other books and magazines.
Ermina B. Suhanek.
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Lines of Descent
FROM Robert and Mary (Warren) Bartlet of
Mrs. Marian Lonufellow
Historian
1st line 2(1 Hiu-
Robert Bartlet
Mary Warren
Benjamin Bartlet
Sarah Brewster
Benjamin, Bartlet Jr.
Ruth Pabodie
John Samson
Priscilla Bartlet
Peleg Wadsworth
Lusannah Samson
Gen. Peleg Wadsworth
Elizabeth Bart let t
Stephen Longfellow
Zilpah W^adsworth
Stephen Longfellow
Marianne Preble
Marian Adele Longfellow
Robert Bartlet
Mary Warren
Joseph Bartlet
Hannah Pope
Joseph Bartlet
Lydia Griswold
Samuel Bartlet
(Mrs.) Elizabeth (Lothn^i)) Wctherel
Gen. Peleg W'adsworth
Elizabeth Bartlett
Stephen Longfellow
Zilpah Wadsworth
Stephen Longfellow
Marianne Preble
Marian Adele Longfellow
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MERCERY. TILSON
Late Vice-President of the Society 1842 — 1912
Mercer V. Tilson might well ha\e been surnaniecl " the
Honest," for if one quality dominated his other characteris-
tics, honesty was that quality.
Honesty of word, thought, and deed, and no tampering
with the truth. He was born October 19, 1837, in Pembroke,
Mass., but in 1840 his parents removed to Kingston, Mass.
In 1843 they again removed, this time to Hanox'er, Mass.
His parents, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Louisa
Alcott, appear to have moved from place to place, doubt-
less to better their condition. At fourteen years of age, the
boy was apprenticed at the trade of shoe-making, but in
1854 was sent to learn the trade of iron-moulding. When
President Lincoln called for troops April 16. 1861, Mercer
Tilson, who was a member of Co. E., 4th Regt. of the State
Militia, was one of the early men sent to Fortress Monroe,
Va. He served faithfully through the Civil War, returning
to his home in Massachusetts in January of 1866.
Mr. Tilson, carrying through life the inspiring thought of
his Pilgrim ancestors, turned his attention to colonial history
and genealogy. He was an earnest worker in these fields.
He did notable work in both this Society and that of the
Tower Genealogical Society, and gave freely of his time,
strength and advice to the descendants of Robert Bartlet of
Plymouth. He took a special interest in the erection of
the Boulder at Manomet. His enduring memorial is his
book, " The Tilson Genealogy," upon w^hich work he devoted
many years, and of which mention is made earlier in this
report.
His later days were spent at South Hanson, Mass., and
he leaves behind him a record of duties well performed and
the grateful recognition of his merit on the part of his
associates.
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Kn iHemotfam
In all times and among all nations its dead have been
enshrined and preserved from forgetfulness.
The Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet of Plym-
outh, Mass., holds in loving remembrance and places upon
its memorial page the following members:
Mrs. Vesta Bartlctt Tower, May 11, 1910.
Mrs. Alice Bartlett Burdick, January 4, 1912.
Mercer V. Tilson, Vice-President of the Society, May 29, 1912.
Mrs. Amanda B. Waterman. June 10, 1912.
Mrs. Emily Bartlctt, March 20, 1913.
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An invitation to attend the Panama-Pacific Universal
Exposition at San Francisco, in 1915, has been extended to
the Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet, as follows:
The President and Directors of the Panama-Pacific Universal Exposi-
tion to be held in San Francisco in 1915 have the honor to extend to the
Bartlett Family a cordial invitation to hold its 1915 meeting in San Fran-
cisco.
The city has been selected by Congress with the approval of the
President of the United States, as the official site for celebrating the unit-
ing of the waters of the Pacific and the Atlantic through the Panama Canal,
the greatest physical accomplishment achieved by man. The Exposition
will not only attempt to show that which is most advanced in invention,
most interesting in Art, and of greatest scientific value, embracing all that
is most important in the material progress of the world, but it will be the
aim of the Directors to make this rank in intellectual interest above all
previous Expositions; to bring together so much of Wisdom, so much of
Practical, Scientific Thought and so much of Broad Grasp of the World's
important Problems, that the progress of mankind shall be advanced a
quarter of a century.
To assist in achieving this aim, we invite your presence in the City of
San Francisco the year Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen.
Chas. a. Wood, President.
Rudolph J. Taussig, Secretary.
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INDEX
Abington (Mass.), 73.
Abolitionists see Ciarrison.
Adams, Elizabeth (Bartlett), witV of
Seth, 77.
Seth, 77.
Addresses: —
President's, 33-34, 48-4Q, 58-62,
76, 80, 87-89, 91.
Historian's, 38-47, 54-58, 80, 83-
84, 91.
Akron (Ohio), 71.
Albany (N. Y.), 61.
Alcott, Louisa, 112.
Alden, John, 42.
Priscilla (Molines), wife of, 42.
" Alden Kindred of America," 42, 81,
109.
Secretary of the_, 48, 81.
[See also Societies.)
Alexandria (Ind.), 72.
Alice, the (ship), 61.
{See also Ships.)
Allen, Aliss Blanche, 66.
MadoUn, 66.
Mrs. Mary P., 66.
Allstine, Mrs. Myra B., 66.
America, 38, 61.
" America," tune of, Miss Mary A.
Hopkins sings anthem of
" Old North " chapter,
D. A. R., 97.
American Biography, National En-
cyclopedia of, 110.
Colleges, 12.
Commonwealth Company, The, 110.
Society of Colonial Families, 10, 81,
83, 96, 97.
Secretary oi, 48, 81, 96. 97.
Board of Assistants, 109.
(See also Societies.)
" Americans of Armorial Ancestry,"
Order of, 109.
{See also Orders. )
Ancestral lines: —
Charles H. Bartlett, 106.
Ermina (Bartlett) Suhanek, 108.
John Albert Bartlett, 107.
Lucius Warren Bartlett, 100-101,
102.
Marian Longfellow, 111.
Ancestry see Ancestral lines.
Ann, the {ship), 9, 11, 15, 19, 22, 23,
35, 38, 39, 40, 49, 55, 59, hO,
62, 96.
(See also Ships.)
Antiquarian research, 26.
(See also Research.)
Arbella, the (ship), 60, 61.
(See also Ships.)
Arizona, 67, 71, 73, 93.
Arlington (Cal.), 74.
Army, Bartletts in the, 12, 41.
ofihcial register of volunte(,Ts in, 12.
(See also Professions.)
Art: —
Sculpture, 41.
noted sculi:itor, 41.
(See also Sculpture.)
Articles of Incorporation see Societies.
Ashburton (parish of), 63.
Ashley, Mrs. Daisy M., 66.
Miss Sarah M., 66.
Associate members of Society of
Descendants of Robert Bart-
let of Plymoulh, rules gov-
erning, 10.
{See also Societies.)
Athens (Ohio), 70.
Aurora (111.), 68.
Austria, native of, 108.
Autograph poem given Mrs. Salome
Bartlett by William CuUen
Bryant, lost, 103-105.
Avon, river (England), 24, 54.
swans kept on, 24, 54.
(See also Rivers.)
Aver, Miss Lucy E., 97.
B
Badge, ])crmanenl, of Society see
Insignia. _
(See also Societies.)
Barclay, Mrs. Elizabeth 1)., 68, 97.
Barnard, Mrs. Mabel E., 68.
Miss Sarah, 68.
Barnes, Sarah, 102, 108.
Barrington (R. I.), 67.
Bartelot, 7, 13, 34.
Adam, 34.
(See also Barttelot.)
Bartlet coat-of-arms, 8, 24, 34, 54,
64, 90, 96.
heraldic terms of, 8.
[See also Heraldry.)
name of, 9, 12, 13, 54.
conspicuous in law, divinity, med-
icine, army atid navy, 9.
in later vcars spelled with double
t,46.
one hundred and thirty of, on
rolls of American colleges, 9.
previous to 1700, 13.
twentv-three original settlers by,
87.
Bartlet, name of,
{See also Bartlett.)
Aruna, 25.
Benjamin (2), 111.
Sarah (Brewster), wife of. 111.
Benjamin (3), 10, 11, 23, 55, cS8. lUO,
102, 107, 108, 111.
record of birth, 88.
marriage, 88.
death, 87.
Ruth fPabodie), wife of, 111.
Benjamin (4), 102, 107, 108.
Benjamin (5), 107.
Edward, 10, 11, 88.
Elizabeth, 40.
Ephraim (6) see Bartlett, Ephraim.
Ephraim (7) see Bartlett, Ephraim.
Hannah, 10, 88.
record of death of, 88.
John, 9, 13, 24.
John, of Weymouth (Mass.), 87.
Joseph (2), 2, 11, 35, 55, 57, 100,
102, 106, 107, 108, HI.
house builded by (1680), 15,
16, 32.
cradle in, 16.
inheritance of, 23.
fire-back in house of (1660),
35, 57.
burial place of, 24.
Hannah (Pope), wife of, 111.
Joseph (3), 111.
Lydia (Griswold), wife of, 111.
Dr. Josiah, Signer of the Declara-
tion of Independence, 40, 41.
delegate to the Continental Con-
gress, 41.
Lemuel (4), 106.
Lydia, 23.
Mary (Warren), 5, 25, 32, 47, 52,
54, 58, 76, 78, 86.
Mercy, 23.
Milly, 10.
Priscilla, wife of John Samson, HI.
Rebecca, 23.
Richard, 9, 13, 24, 25.
Robert (1), of Plymouth (Mass.),
lines of descent from:
Joseph (2), Benjamin (3), Ben-
jamin (4), Edward (5), Eph-
raim (6), Ephraim T. (7),
Lucius Warren (8), Ermina
(8).
Joseph (2), Robert (3), Lemuel
(4), William (5), Clement (6),
Henry L. (7), Charles H. (8).
Joseph (2), Benjamin (3), Ben-
jamin (4), Benjamin (5),
Ebenezer (6), George Wash-
ington (7), John (8), John
Albert (9).
Benjamin (2), Benjamin (3),
Priscilla (4), Susannah Sam-
son(5). Gen. Peleg Wadsworth
(6), Zilpah Wadsworth (7),
Stephen Longfellow (8), Mar-
ian Adele Longfellow (9) (1st
line).
Joseph (2), Joseph (3), Samuel
(4), Elizabeth (5), Zilpah
Wadsworth (6), Stephen
Longfellow (7), Marian Adele
Longfellow (8) (2d line.)
Robert (1), 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17,
18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 31,
32, 33, 38, 40, 42, 43, 47,
48, 50, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58,
66, 75, 78, 83, 86, 87, 89, 99,
100, 102, 106, 107, 112.
probable burial place of, 24.
will of, 23.
lines of descent from, 100-111.
admonished by Court, 24.
descendants of, 10, 19, 24, 54,
90.
group pictures of, 14, 56, 90.
(See also Societies.)
Society to erect memorial on site
of original house of, 17, 32,
33, 52, 57.
great-great granddaughter, 40.
great-grandson, 40.
maps of site of home of, 51, 58.
Robert (3), 106.
Robert of Hartford (Conn.), 87.
Samuel (4), 111.
Mrs. Elizabeth (Lothrop) Wether-
ell, wife of. 111.
Miss Sarah B., 30, 67.
Sarah Elizabeth, 23.
Mrs. Sarah S., 17, 20, 21-25, 26,
27, 30, 33, 34, 67.
vote of thanks to, for valuable
services, 52.
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Bartlct, Thomas, 13, 24, 41.
William, 23.
William Francis, 41.
Hartlctt, mime of, 8, 12, 13, 24, 25, 76.
reason to be proutl of the, 41.
{See also Bart let.)
descendants, 78.
Aliss Alice, 66.
Anna E., 30, 67, 80.
Arthur Lucius, 66, 97.
Mrs. (Leota Grey), 'H), 97.
Miss Beatrice, 66.
Byram, 67.
Cecil, 67.
Cephas H., 67.
Charles, 35.
Charles C, 66.
Charles Dana, 35, 57.
Charles H., 6, 26, 27, 30, ^3, 51,
67, 79, 80, 81, 82, 90, 92, 96,
97, 106.
ancestral line of, from Robert
(1), 106.
birthplace of, 106.
Clement (6), 106, 107.
Clyde, 67.
Cornelius, 66.
Cornelius, Jr., 66.
David W., 67.
Miss Dorothy R., 66.
Earl R., 66.
Miss Edith E., 30, 66.
Edward, immigration of (1795), 77.
children of, 78.
Edward (5), 100, 102, 108.
Edward, 15, 87, 88.
Edward M., 67.
Edward O., 67.
Miss Elsie, 66.
Mrs. Emily B., 66, 95, 113.
Ephraim (6), 100, 102, 108.
Ephraim D., 20, 30, 34, 35, 53, 66.
Rev. Ephraim H., 30, 67.
Ephraim T. (TiUson), 11, 17, 100,
102, 103, 108.
Salome (Tower), wife of, 100, 101,
102, 108.
E. Paran, 31, 67.
Miss Evelyn A., 67.
Faith, 67.
F'rancis, 30, 67.
Francis K., 66.
Frank K., 66.
Frederick W., 67.
George E., 66.
George Washington, 107
Miss Gertrude, 67.
Guy, 66.
Harold, 67.
Mrs. Hattie D., 66.
llattie R., 82, 90.
Miss Helen L., 30, 67.
Helen R., 66.
Henry L. (7), 106.
Herbert L., 66.
Homer, 66.
Horace, 66.
Hosea C, 35, 57.
Howard, 67.
Miss Ida B., 66.
Irving C, 67.
Irving L., Jr., 67.
Miss Isabelle M., 30, 51, 67, 96.
motion made liy, 96.
James E., 66, 97.
John, 6, 12, 17, 19, 20, 57.
John (author), 25.
John (8), 107.
John Albert, 30, 66, 90, 92, 95, 96,
97.
birthplace of, 107.
ancestral line of, 107.
John Russell, 41.
Joseph W., 67.
Miss Julia A., 67.
Miss Katherine G., 66.
Kenneth, 66.
Miss L. Florence, 31, 67, 82, 90.
Mrs. Leota (Grev), 30, 66, 90, 97.
Leroy C, 31, 67, 97.
Levi, 13.
book written by, 87.
(See also Genealogies.)
Afrs. Lillian F., 66.
Lucius Warren, 4, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17,
20, 25, 26, 27, 30, 33,, 36, 50,
51, 53, 55, 58, 62, 67, 75, 78,
79, 80, 83, 86, 89, 90, 95, 96,
97, 108.
biography of, 100-102.
ancestral line, 100-101, 102.
birthplace, 100.
bookkeeper and expert account-
ant, 100.
professor of mathematics, 100.
past officer in I. O. O. F., 102.
first wife of, 102.
second wife of, 30, 53, 67, 97, 102.
interest in politics, 102.
Putnam Phalanx, Secretary of,
102.
wrote histor>' of, 102.
Captain in \eleran ranks of,
102.
founder Society of Descendants
of Robert" Bart let of Plym-
outh, 100.
work for the Society, 102.
[iii
addresses before the Society, 17-
19, 33, 34, 48, 49, 58-62, 76.
80, 83, 87-89, 91.
report as chairman of committee
on memorial, 36.
report on Insignia, 85.
Afiss Mabel M., 66.
Marcia J., 30, 66.
Marguerite, 31, 66.
Mrs. Maria G., 67.
Miss Marian, 66.
Mary }., 66.
Mary L., 97.
Matthew H., 67.
Mildred, 66.
Mildred A., 66.
Octavius W., 87.
Otis B., 67.
Peter, 67.
Richard H., 67.
Richard S., 67.
Richard W., 66, 67.
Robert (1), one hundred and sixty-
eight descendants of, on ros-
ter, 78.
Robert A., 66.
Robert W., 66, 67.
Miss Ruth, 67.
RuthT., 67.
Samuel, 40.
Samuel Colcord, 41.
Miss Thelma, 66.
Thomas Edward, 12, 87.
Tilson, 66.
Truman H., 44.
Virgil, 67.
Colonel Walter B., 13.
Rev. Walter R., 33, 67.
Warren Tower, 26, 27, 30, 67.
Weslev L.. 67.
William (5), 106
William Ashmead, 25.
William H., 67, 82, 90.
Rev. William P., 67, 96, 97.
W. Russell, 67.
Mrs. Zilpah (wife of Lucius War-
ren), 102.
Bartlett Engraving Co., 53, 91.
photo-engravings of the Bartlct
coat-of-arms, 90, 91.
Bartlett- Tower-Tillson combination,
78.
intermarriages, 101.
" Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," 25,
57.
Barttelot, 7.
Adam, 8, 13, 24, 54.
Edmund, 13.
John, 8, 13, 24, 54.
Richard, 13.
Thomas, 13.
.Sir Walter, 24.
Bates, Mrs. Amanda B., 68.
David M., 68.
Frank, 68.
Beacon Hill (Boston), 83.
Beal, Jeremiah, 88.
Bearce, deorge H., 67.
Belmont (Mass.), 31, 67.
Benjamin, Mrs. Melissa, 68.
Bible, family, record, 10.
of Stephen Bartlett Tower, 87-88.
{See also Records.)
record of deaths, 88.
Bickford, Miss Amy G., 68.
Lucille G., 68.
Marshall, 68.
Biographies of officers of the Society: —
Lucius Warren Bartlett, President,
100-102.
Charles H. Bartlett, First ]"ice-
President, 106.
John Albert Bartlett, Second Vice-
President, 107.
Ermina (Bartlett) Suhanek, Secre-
tary-Treasurer, 108.
Marian Adele Longfellow, Histor-
ian, 109-111.
Mercer V. Tilson, late First Vice-
President, 112.
Biography, genealogy and history, 62.
{See also Genealogies.)
Bird, Frederick H., 30, 67.
H. A., 97.
Afiss Helen, 17, 20, 30, 53, 67, 97.
Henry Marshall, 30, 53, 68, 97.
Henry W., 67.
Horace A., 67, 82, 90.
Isaac, 88.
Luther O., 68.
Simeon A., 30, 67.
\Y. Ellery, 67, 82, 89, 90.
Zilpha Bartlett, wife of Isaac, 77.
Births: —
in vital statistics of Duxburv
(Mass.), 88.
{See also Duxbury).
Blackinton (Mass.), 30, 68.
Blackman, Airs. Mary E., 68.
Miss Willmay, 68.
Board of Assistants, American Soci-
ety of Colonial Families, 109.
{See also Societies.)
Bodfish, David L., 17, 19, 30, 68.
Boer War, 24.
(See also Wars.)
[iv]
Bookkeeping and expert accounting,
100.
(See also Professions.)
Books, see genealogies, histories, and
biographies.
Boomer, Mrs. Rebecca C, 31, 67, 07.
Boston (Mass.), 36, 39, 44, 61, 67, 6cS,
71. 83, 92, 96, 97, 106.
evacuation of, by the Britisli, 40.
land in, bought by Peter Warren, 61.
John Warren who settled in, 62.
Boulder, erected on site of Bartlet
home, Manomet, 9.
to erect, 36.
picture of, 37, 51.
list of contributors toward, expense
of, 53, 82, 90.
Secretary of Society writes letter
of acknowledgment for per-
mission to erect, 58.
work of Mercer V. Tilson, relative
to the, 76, 112.
Boundary line between the I'nited
States and Mexico, John
Russell Bartlet t appointed to
set, 41.
Bowker, Anna, 77, 101.
Bracebridge (Can.), 74.
Bradford, Governor, of Plymouth Col-
ony, journal of, 39.
name of, 60.
Family, 42.
{See also Societies.)
Braintree (Mass.), 75.
Brant Rock (Mass.), 67, 75.
Brewster, Elder William, 42.
Street, 31, 47, 50.
{See also Streets.)
Family, 42.
iSee also Societies.)
Miss Ada A., 67.
Sarah, 111.
Brian (a knight), 8, 13.
Bridgewater (Mass.), 72.
once north parish of, now Brockton,
88.
{See also Brockton.)
Brockton (Mass.), 10, 11, 18, 19, 20,
30, 54, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 72,
90, 92, 96, 100.
once north parish of Bridgewater,
88.
" Times," 11.
photograph group of first annual
outing, 55.
Brookfield (Conn.), 70.
(Mass.), 108.
Brookline (Mass.), 51, 74, 76, 79, 90.
Brooks, Mrs. Nina, 68.
Brown, Mrs. Mabel, 68.
Brookhn (,\. \'.), ()9.
Brown," William B., 30, (),S.
Brvant and Strattoii Commercial
Schools, 100.
bookkeeper a»(/ accountant at, 100.
Professor of mathematics at, 100.
(.'SV,' also Schools.)
Austin, 101.
Miss Edith E., 68.
Mrs. Sarah \V., 68.
Bryant estate, 78, 100.
purchase of, 101.
picture of the Bryant home at
Cummington (Mass.), 103.
William CuUen (the poet), 100, 101.
home, mother of Lucius Warren
Bartlett and Ermina (Bart-
lett) Suhanek, married in
house afterward the, 101.
autograph poem gi\en Mrs. Sa-
■ Tome Bartlett !)>•, unfortu-
nately lost, 102.
Bryantville (Mass.), 75.
Builders of the Nation, 54.
Bunker Hill, 60.
Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, 25.
Burdick, Mrs. Alice P., 30, 68.
death of, 76, 84, 113.
(See also Necrologv.)
Edwin P., 68, 84.
Burgis, Peter, 63.
Mary, daughter of, 63.
Burns, Emily Longfellow, 6S.
Mrs. John J., 68.
Silvia Wadsworth, 68.
Burrell, D. S., 51.
Burrill, David T., 97.
wife of, 97.
Burton, Charles P., 68.
By-Laws of Society of Descendants of
Robert Bartlet of Phniouth,
to prepare, 20, 26, 30.
amendments, 79, 91.
extracts from, 86.
{See also Societies.)
C.
California; 68, 72, 74, 93, 113.
Cambridge (Mass.), 87, 96.
Campello (Mass.), 30, 31, 67, 75.
Canaan (N. H.), 97.
Canada, 67, 74.
Canton, 11.
Carlstook (Cornwall), 63.
Carver, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Ames, 31.
Elizabeth A., 68.
Horace A., 68.
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Castine (Me.), fort at, 40.
(See also Forts.)
Castle of Fontenoy see Fontenoy.
Cedar Rapids (la.), 73.
Chalmers, Mary, 102.
Chart of the Harlerian Society of
Visitations of Devonshire
(Eng.), date of 1620, 63.
Charter of the Society of the Descend-
ants of Robert Bartlet of
Plymouth, 26-30, 34.
members, 26-30.
list of, 30-31.
expenses for, 34.
{See also Societies.)
Charts see Harlerian Society.
{See also Lands.)
{See also Maps and Charts.)
Cheshire (Mass.), 75_.
Cheyenne (Wyo.), 67.
Chicago (111.), 78.
Chilton, Mary, 42.
Chiltonville (Mass.), 71.
Churchill, Arthur H., 68.
Churches:
Second Congregational Church of
Plymouth (Mass.), 9, 21.
Methodist Church at Plymouth
(Mass.), 10, 31, 32, 47.
Old South meeting-house at Bos-
ton (Mass.), 39.
Park Street Church at Boston
(Mass.), S3, 92.
Porter Church at Brockton (Mass.),
85.
England, Church of (Established),
23, 39.
Stopham Church in England, 24.
Church at Leyden (Holland.), 38.
Separatists' Church, 38.
Cincinnati (Ohio), 72.
Civil War (1861-65), 18, 49, 112.
Bartletts in the, 9, 12.
commissioned officers by name of
Bartlett in the, 41.
youngest Major-Ceneral in the, 41.
Clark and Finney, 34.
Mrs. Catherine B., 68.
CHnton L., 68.
George W., 68.
Clark's Island, 23.
first landing near Plymouth, 23.
{See also Islands.)
Clerks, town, 9.
Cleveland, Mrs. Elizabeth M., 68.
Kilbourne, 68.
Raymond M., 68.
Cleveland (Ohio), 73.
Coates, Mrs. Anna Cj., 68.
Coats-of-Arms, 8, 34, 54.
description of the Bartlet, S.
eleven quarterings in, 24.
crests, 8, 24, 54.
motto, 8, 99.
photo-engravings of, 90.
of the Tilsons (Tillsons), 64.
Cohasset (Mass.), 77.
exodus from, 77. ' .
Cole, Zilpah, 102, 108.
Colgan, Mrs. Addie Waite, 30, 68.
Colleges: —
Dartmouth, 41.
President of (1877), 41.
Cooper Institute (New York City),
102.
" Colonial," The, 85.
subscriptions to, 91.
{See also Magazines.)
Colonial Governors, Order of Descend-
ants of, 109.
History and Genealogy, 112.
Committees of Society of Descend-
ants of Robert Bartlet of
Plymouth, on incorporation
of Society, 10, 52.
music for annual reunions, 106.
on place of meeting, 28.
Commissioners signing Mayfloiccr
Compact, 23.
{See also Mayflower.)
of Corporations, 27.
{See also Corporations.)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
see Massachusetts.
Composer of music see Music.
{See also Professions.)
Conant, Paul W., 97.
Roger, 22.
Congresses: —
Provincial, 60.
President of the, 60.
Continental, 41.
Conn, Mrs. Mary M., 68.
Connecticut (State of), 12, 19, 26, 30,
32, 33, 50, 51, 54, 67, 68, 69,
70, 71, 74, 78, 79, 80, 89, 90,
93, 97, 100, 102.
State Council, executive board of,
102.
Robert Bartlet of Hartford, 87.
river, 78.
across the, 100.
towns west of the, 77.
Constitution and By-Laws of the Soci-
ety of Descendants of Rob-
ert Bartlet of Plymouth, to
prepare, 20, 26, 30.
{See also By-Laws.)
[vi]
{See also Societies.)
Continental Congress, 41.
Dr. Josiah Bartlet, a delegate to
the, 41.
value of money issued 1)\', 77.
" Contrasted Songs," actsc, 110.
Cook, Sarah, 106.
Cooper, Mrs. Mary D.
Cooper see Trades,
wine see Trades.
Cooper Institute (New Ynrk Chy),
102.
{See also Colleges.)
Cornwall (Eng.), 63.
Rame in, 63.
Corporation see Society Descendants
of Robert Bartlet of i'hni-
outh.
articles of incorporation, 26-27.
Corporations, Commissioner of. Com-
monwealth of Massachusetts,
27.
{See also Massachusetts.)
Correspondent, newspaper, see News-
paper Correspondent.
Counties: —
Cornwall (Eng.), 63.
Devonshire (Eng.), 59.
Kent (Eng.), 59, 63.
Sussex (Eng.), 13.
{See also England.)
Court Street, Plymouth (Mass.), 31,
47, 50.
{See also Plymouth.)
{See also Streets.)
Coventry (Eng.), one Richard War-
ren, said to have been sheriff
of, in 1620, 59, 60.
Cradle belonging to Joseph Bartlet, 16.
Crests: —
tower, 8, 24, 54.
sivan, 8, 24, 54.
Cross, William B., 68.
William W., 68.
Crozier, Mrs. Zilpha (Bartlett) see
Bartlett, Zilpha.
CulHng, Will, 63.
Mary, daughter of, 63.
William, son of Ann (Warren), 63.
John, 63.
Richard, 63.
Thomas (of London, Eng.), 63.
Cumberland, 12.
Cummington (Mass.), 10, 13, 30, 70,
73, 74, 77, 100, 101, 102, 108.
house at, 102.
soon after Revolutionarv War, 13
Edward (5) Bartlett settles in (1795)
77.
names of other settlers, 87.
Brvant home at, 103.
Cush'ing, Mrs. Edith I., 16, 17, 19,
20. 21, 30, 3:3, 34, 68, 89.
Cutter and Tower, 101.
1)
Dallas (Tex.), 67.
Dalton (Mass.), 66, 69, 71, 72.
Dartmouth College, 41.
President of (1877), 41.
{See also Colleges.)
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, National Societ\', 109.
Massachusetts, 109.
Founders and Patriots of America,
National Society of, 109.
{See also Societies.)
{See also National.)
Davis' " Landmarks of Plymouth,"
60.
data taken from, 60.
Dean, Mrs. Marian C, 69.
Declaration of Independence, 40.
a signer of the, 40, 41.
Deed recorded in Plymouth Land
Records, of piece of land one
hundred feet square, granted
to the Society, 36.
{See also Plymouth Land Records.)
Descendants of Robert Bartlet of
Plymouth, 10, 25, 38.
Society of see Society.
{See also Societies.)
of Colonial Governors, 109.
(See also Orders.)
Desoe, Harlan J., 68.
Harlan T., 68.
Miss Madoline T., 68.
Devonshire County (Eng.), 59, 63.
{See also England.)
Dewey, Mrs. Carrie K., 68.
Dighton (Mass.), ii.
Dill, Wallace, 69.
Diplomat, 109.
Diplomats see Professions.
Divinity, 12.
{See also Professions.)
Dorchester (Mass.), 26, 30, 31, 33, 51,
67, 69, 72, 79, 90, 97, 106.
Heights, camp at, during the Revo-
lution, 40.
Doty, name of, 60.
Mary, 106.
Drake, Sir Francis, 22.
Francis S., 60.
" History of Roxbury, Massa-
chusetts," 60, 61.
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Dues of the Society Descendants of
Robert Bartlet of Plymouth,
20, 29.
{See also Societies.)
Dutch Republic, the, 39.
Duxbury (Mass.), 88, 100.
vital statistics, reference from, 88.
births, 88.
records of, 89.
E.
Eager, John, 69.
Miss Katherine L., 69.
Lucy, 69.
Mrs. E. J., 97.
Earlville (111.), 74.
East Bridgewater (Mass.), 20, 30, 67,
70, 97.
Easthampton (Mass.), 68, 69.
East Hartford (Conn.), 67, 100.
Eddy, Albert, 69.
Miss Beulah, 69.
Carroll B., 69.
Charles A., 69.
Miss Ethel, 69.
Frank B., 69.
George, 69.
Miss Grace, 69.
Miss Virginia Fraye, 69.
Education: —
of the immigrant imperative, 44.
Edward, the Black Prince, 8.
Eel River, Plymouth (Mass.), 23.
Election of Officers see Officers of
Society of Descendants Rob-
ert Bartlet of Plymouth.
Ellis and Clark, 34.
Elmwood (Mass.), 31, 66, 68.
Ely (Nev.), 69.
Emigrants, duty toward, coming to
our country, 43.
uneducated, a menace to the coun-
try, 44.
[See also Immigration.)
by name of Warren settled in Plym-
outh, Watertown and Bos-
ton, 61.
Enfield (Mass.), 73.
England, 8, 13, 22, 24, 35, 38, 39, 57,
61, 62, 63, 64, 65.
Church of, supporter of the, 23.
{See also Churches.)
county of Cornwall, 63.
Devonshire, 59, 63.
Kent, 63.
Sussex, 13.
English blood, intermingling of, with
that of Holland, incentive to
Pilgrims to come to the new
world, 40.
ancestry should be a matter for
pride, 43.
Bartletts in Parliament, 24.
Ernley (Sussex county, England), 13.
Europe, 62.
Executive Committee, see Officers,
election of, Society of De-
scendants of Robert Bartlet
of Plymouth.
Exposition, Universal, at San Fran-
cisco, 114.
Fall River (Mass.), 74, 97.
Families: —
Alden Kindred of America, 42.
American Society of Colonial Fam-
ilies, 42.
Bradford family, 42.
Brewster family, 42.
Winslow family, 42.
Farry, Mrs. Mary M., 30, 69, 97.
Ferguson, Mrs. Jane T., 69.
Fire-back (1660), 35, 57.
Flag, the
immigrants to honor, 45.
" Flag of Our Native Land," sung at
sixth annual reunion, 97.
Florence (Mass.), 67, 102.
Florida, 93.
Fontenoy, battle of, 24.
capture of tower of, 8, 24.
Forbes, Mrs. Alice Bartlett, 30, 69.
Miss Barbara Hyde, 30, 69.
George B., 69.
Ford Building, 83.
Fort " Ethan Allen " (Vt.), 70.
"George," Castine (Me.), 40.
capture, imprisonment at, and
escape from, of General Peleg
Wadsworth, second in com-
mand of the Penobscot Ex-
pedition, 40.
" Sumter," 102.
steamer sent to reinforce, 102.
mark of cannon-ball in, 102.
" Fortress Monroe," 112.
{See also Forts.)
" Fortress Monroe" see Forts.
Forts: —
" Ethan Allen," 70.
" George," 40.
" Sumter," 102.
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Fortune, the (ship), 38, 4-0.
{See also Ships.)
Foster, Harriet Newell, 107.
F"ounfler of the Society of Desrend-
ants of Robert Barikt (if
Plymouth, 100.
{See also Societies.)
" Founders Society" see Massachu-
sett " Founders " Daughters
of the American Revolution.
{See also Societies.)
Fourth Regiment Massachusetts State
Militia, 112.
{See also Troops. )
{See also Massachusetts.)
France, 8, 24.
Franklin, Irwin, 69.
Mrs. Mabel B., 69.
Fraser House, Brockton (Mass.), !S5.
French Ancestry, 42, 43.
Freeman's Oath, on list of those
taking, 61.
Freemen, 9, 61.
" Free Soil " men, 101.
{See also Politics.)
Fuller, Mrs. Cornelia P., 69.
Mary E., 69.
Sylvanus, 69.
Fugitive slaves sheltered, 101.
Garfield (Utah), 68.
Garlinger, Mrs. Enieline, 69.
Miss Ida, 69.
Garments of the Pilgrims not confined
in color to black and grcn'
only, 42.
Garrison Abolitionists, 101.
{See also Politics.)
Garter King of Arms, grants by, 8.
Genealogical Societies, 7.
{See also Societies.)
research, 26.
lines, 76, 77, 78.
Genealogies: —
Bartlett, 77, 78, 87.
Colonial history a?id Genealogy, 112.
" Sketches of the Bartlett Family,"
by Levi Bartlett. 13.
Tilson, 10, 64, 65, 77, 78, 112.
Tower, 77, 78, 87.
" Wheelers, The, and the Warrens,"
61.
Genealogists, books by, 60, 61, 87.
Germany, Holland and, our lorm of
Town meeting derived from,
44.
{Sec also Holland.)
Gilbert, .V;-,s-. Al)l)e\- !.., 69.
(.ilnian (Can.), 69.'
Glunz, Mrs. Emilv H., 69.
Randolph, 69.
Goldfield (Xev.), 71.
Gordon, Miss Dorris (Doris:-*), 69.
A'lildred, 69.
Mrs. Nellie B., 69.
Ray, 69.
Ciranger, Mrs. Permclia B., 69.
(irants of Land see Lands.
Gray, Mrs. Martha B., 69.
Great Barrington (Mass.), 70.
Great Seal of the Commonwealth see
Massachusetts.
Greenfield (Mass.), 67.
( dwinvich (Kent County, Eng.), 63.
Grirtis, William 39.
Griswold, Lydia, wife of Joseph (3)
Ban let. 111.
{See also Bartlet, Joseph (3).
H
Hadlev (Mass.), 108.
Halifax (Mass.), 76, 87, 101.
Hamilton (N. Y.), 71, 74.
Handmaid, the {ship), 38.
{See also Ships.)
Hanover (Mass.), 112.
Harlerian Society, 58.
visitations of, 59, 63.
chart of the, 63.
{See also Societies.)
{See also Charts.)
Harlow, Miss Florence J., 31, 70.
Mrs. Mary F., 70, 97.
Minnie B., 31, 70.
Harned, Mrs. Lillian, 70.
Harriman (Tenn.), 67.
Harrison, A. M., 35, 57.
Mrs. Mattie B., 70.
Hartford (Conn.), 12, 19, 26, 30, 32,
^i, 50, 51, 54, 67, 68, 69, 73
74, 78, 79, 80, 87, 89, 90, 100
102.
Haskins, Mrs. Angeline T., 31, 69.
Miss Edith A., 31, 69.
Hastings, 8, 13.
Hawley, Mrs. Agnes B., 70.
George, 70.
James, 70.
Haxtun, Annie Arnoux, 58-62.
Hay, Mrs. Edith C, 70, 82, 90.
Hayden, Susannah, 107.
HaVes, Miss Edith M., 69.
Ethel J., 69.
Irving C, 69.
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Hedbury, in the parish of Ashburton,
63.
Heraldry, 8.
heraldic terms and significations, 8.
Hereditary Orders, 109.
(See also Orders.)
Highways, surveyor of, 23.
Hill, Samuel L., 102.
Hill towns west of the Connecticut
River, settling of, 77.
(See also Towns.)
Hingham (Mass_.), 13, 76, 77, 97, 100.
exodus from, 77.
Hinsdale (Mass.), 67, 69, 101.
Historian, past, of the Society of
Descendants of Robert Bart-
let of Plymouth, see Sarah S.
Bartlet.
present, see Marian Longfellow.
" Historical, Genealogical and Bio-
graphical " book entitled see
Pierce, Ebenczer W.
research, 261.
(See also Research.)
History, Genealogy and Biography
see Genealogies, etc.
" History of Roxbury, Massachusetts"
see Drake, Francis S.
the Society of Descendants of Rob-
ert Bartlet of Plymouth, 85,
96, 97, 109.
Hoag, Mrs. Susie W., 70.
Hoboken (N. J.), 73.
Holland, 38, 39, 40.
children of English Pilgrims inter-
marrying with people of, 40.
form of government, as in town
meetings deri\'ed from Ger-
many and, 44.
(See also Germany.)
Holmes, Amasa, 96.
Betsey, wife, of, 96.
Charles, gift by, of fire-back, to
Society of Descendants of
Robert Bartlet of Plymouth,
96.
Holmes, Mary, 106.
Remember, 25.
Holyoke (Mass.), 10, 26, 30, 32, 34,
51, 67, 73, 75, 79, 90, 92, 97,
108.
Holvoke, Mount, 78, 89.
Hopkins, Miss Mary A., 31, 47, 48,
53, 69, 78, 80, 81, 89, 96-98.
original verses by, written for and
sung at Sixth Reunion of the
Society, bv, 97, 98.
Mrs. Susan J., 31, 53, 69, 97.
Hoyt, Mrs. Madelyn B., 30, 53, 70.
Hotels : —
Crescent Hotel (Plymouth Mass.),
55.
Eraser House (Brockton Mass.), 85.
Parker House (Boston Mass.), 52.
Hubbard, Mrs. Evelyn B., 70.
Miss Jennie S., 70.
Sarah, 70.
Huguenots, 42, 58.
Illinois, 68, 74, 93, 97.
Illustrations: —
house builded in 1660, 2.
portraits: Lucius Warren Bartlett, 4.
Ermina B. Suhanek, 6.
Charles H. Bartlett, 6.
John A. Bartlett, 6.
Marian Longfellow, 6.
Bartlet coat-of-arms, 8.
group picture at I3artlett Farm,
Stoughton, 14.
old house and family cradle at
Manomet, 16.
old fire-back, etc. (1660), 35.
Boulder on site of original home,
37, 56.
group picture of Fourth Reunion, 56.
Mercer V. Tilson (late First Vice-
President), 64.
insignia of the Society, 81.
Bryant house at Cummington
(Mass.), 103.
Immigrant, youthful, to educate, 44.
duty of Americans to the, 44, 45.
rights of the, 45.
must be taught to honor the flag
of their adopted country, 45.
(See also Immigration.)
Immigration: —
undesirable, 44.
duty of Americans towards emi-
grants from other countries,
43.
(See also Immigrants.)
Incorporation of Society of the De-
scendants of Robert Bartlet
of Plymouth, 10, 52.
articles of, 26, 27, 52.
contributions towards expense of, 51.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
" past grand " of, 102.
(See also Orders.)
Indiana, 30, 72, 93.
Indianapolis (Ind.), 30.
In Memoriam: —
Mrs. Vesta (Bartlett) Tower, 112.
Mrs. Alice (Bartlett) Burdick, 112.
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Mercer V. Tilson, 112.
Mrs. Amanda B. Waterman, 112.
Mrs. Emily Bartlett, 112.
Insignia of the Society of Descend-
ants of Robert Bart let of
Plymouth, 80, 83.
description of, and price, 85.
sale of, 91.
cut of, 81.
Intermarriages between Englisli ami
people of Holland, 40.
Iowa, 67, 73, 74.
Iron-molding, 112.
{See also Trades.)
Islands: —
Clark's, 23.
.T
James F. White Companx', 110.
Joel Munson's Sons see Muwson.
{See also Publishers.)
Johnson, Mrs. Anna Bartlett, 26, 27,
31, 53, 97.
poem written by, for a Reunion,
17, 33.
Anna M., 70.
Miss Elna, 70.
Mrs. Mary E., 70.
Miss Miriam, 70.
Mrs. Zilpha, 70.
Juries, grand, 23.
Kansas, 70.
Keith, Mrs. Mary Bird, 53, 70, 97.
Susan O., 70.
Kent (Eng.), county of, 59.
{See also England.)
Kenka Park (N. Y.), 69.
Kilbourne, Alfred B., 70.
Miss Beatrice, 70.
Charles, 70.
James N., 70.
Miss Lucy, 53, 70.
Mrs. Mary, 70.
Joseph, 70.
Kingston (Mass.), 67, 69, 75, 76, 95,
112.
Knapp, Mrs. Agnes P., 70.
E. Clayton, 70.
Fordyce L., 70.
Knight, Miss Blanche, 70.
James, 70.
Mrs. Mary Z., 70.
Ray, 70.
Kratzer, Mrs. Helen K., 70.
Kurtz, Mrs. Ada B., 70.
" Landmarks of Plymouth" sec Davis.
Lands, 26.
grant of, to Adam Bartelot, 13, 24.
Brian (a Knight), 13.
records of Plymouth (Mass.), 36.
lot of, to Robert Barllet from Mrs.
Richard Warri'n, 23, 36.
maps of, 51.
survey and, 36.
at Manomet, 23.
right of way over, 36, 58.
{See also Manomet.)
bought by Peter Warren in Boston,
61.
sale of, to Charles A. Stone, 3().
deed of, recorded at Plymouth
(Mass.), 36.
Lapham, George A., 70.
Law, 12, 109, 110.
{See also Professions.)
Laws of New England have made
her famous for good govern-
ment and equity, 44.
" League of American Pen Women"
(Washington, D. C), 109.
founder of, 109.
Lectures, 110.
lecturer on colonial, historical and
literary subjects, 110.
Lee (Mass.), 66.
Leicester (Mass.), 61.
Leonard, Mrs. James B., 70.
Letter to Charles H. Stone from the
Secretary of the Society of
Descendants of Robert Bart-
let of Plymouth, 58.
{See also Societies.)
Lewiston (Me.), 97.
Lexington (Mass.), 62.
battle of, 62.
Leyden (Holland), 38.
Lincoln, Abraham, 112.
speech of, at Cooper's Institute,
New York City, 101.
call of, April 16, 1861, for troops and
response to, 112.
Link, Ernest, 70.
Mrs. Jessie, 70.
Miss Margaret, 70.
List of charter members of the Soci-
ety, 30, 31.
contributors toward expense of me-
morial, 53, 82.
mailing, of the Society, 87.
one hundred and forty-five names of
members, on file, 93.
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Literature, men of, name of Bartlett
figures among, 40.
Little James, the {ship), 23, 38, 39.
{See also Ships.)
Living Descendants of Robert and
Mary (Warren) Bartlet see
Roster of Living Descendants.
Logan, Mrs. Annie C, 70.
London (Eng.), 23, 63.
Longfellow, Arthur H., 7L
Henrv Greville, 7L
Miss'EWm T., 7L
Louise A., 7L
Henrv Wadsworth (the poet), 25,
■ 32, 40, 5 L
two lines of descent from Robert
(1), of Plymouth:
Robert (1), Benjamin (2), Ben-
jamin (3), Jr., Priscilla (4)
Susannah (Samson) (5), Gen-
eral Peleg (6) (Wadsworth),
Zilpah (7) (Wadsworth),
Henry (8) Wadsworth Long-
fellow.
Second line: Robert {\), Joseph
(2), Joseph (3), Samuel (4),
Elizabeth (5), Zilpah (6)
(Wadsworth), Henry (7)
Wadsworth Longfellow.
Marian Adele, 3, 5, 6, 32, 48, 51, 52,
53, 7L 76, 79, 80, 84, 90, 92,
96, 99, 109.
addresses of, before the Society,
38-47, 54-58, 80, 83, 84, 91.
compilation of History of the
Society, 85, 96.
letter of sympathy sent by the
Society to, on death of her
brother, 96.
birthplace of, 109.
first marriage, 110.
children by, 110.
second marriage, 110.
two lines of descent from Robert
(1) Bartlet of Plymouth, HI.
First line: Robert (1), Benja-
min (2), Benjamin (3), Pris-
cilla (4), Susannah (5), (Sam-
son) General Peleg (6) (Wads-
worth), Zilpah (7) (Wads-
worth), Stephen (8) (Long-
fellow, Marian Adele
Longfellow (9).
Second line: Robert (1), Jo-
seph (2), Joseph (3), Sam-
uel (4), Elizabeth (5), Zil-
pah (6), Stephen (7) (Long-
fellow), Marian Adele (8)
Longfellow.
Stephen (4), 111.
Zilpah (Wadsworth), wife of, 109.
Stephen (5),
Marianne (Preble), wife of. 111.
daughter of Hon. William Pitt
Preble, Judge of Supreme
Court of Maine and E. E.
and M. P. to the Court of
the Netherlands, 109.
William Pitt Preble, 96.
death of, 96.
sister of, 109.
Los Angeles (Cal.), 68.
Lovell, Mrs. Eugenia F. B., 30, ii,
51, 70, 89.
Lowell, James Russell, 50.
poem of, quoted by President of the
Society, 50.
" What is so rare as a dav in June,"
57.
M.
Alable, Ann, 63.
Thomas, 63.
Macey, Mrs. Mercie W., 71.
Magazines: —
The " Colonial, "85, 91.
Mailing list of living descendants of
Robert and Mary (Warren)
Bartlet, 66-75.
Maine, 31, 40, 73, 93, 97.
" Daughters " of, 109.
Manchester (Conn.), 74.
Manley, Martha, 107.
Mann, Mrs. Elizabeth Bird, 30, 71.
Horace W., 19, 30.
Manomet (Mass.), 10, 30, 31, ':>!, 55,
57, 67.
White Horse Beach at, 15.
land at, belonging to Robert (1)
Bartlet, 23.
home of Joseph (2) Bartlet at, 57.
boulder (memorial), 9, 36, 37, 51, 53,
58, 76, 82, 112.
Ponds, 9, 35, 579.
Maps and Charts drawn b\' Mercer
V. Tilson 51, 58.
{See also Charts.)
{See also Lands.)
Marriages, record of, 88.
{See also Records.)
Marsh, Mrs. Elizabeth (loual), 59, 60,
62, 63.
Marshall, Mrs. Harriet A., 71.
Marshfield Centre (Mass.), 31, 67.
Hills (Mass.), 75, 97.
Mason, Charles N., 71.
Charles W., 71.
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Dorris (Doris?), 71.
Dudley, 71.
Mrs. Edith, 71.
Miss Flora L., 71.
Frank B., 71. _
Miss Marian, 71.
Martha, 71.
Stanley, 71. ^
Walter, 71.
Miss Winifred.
Massachusetts (ComnionwcaUh of),
7, 15, 21, 26, 27, .^0, ,^1, ^?>
34, 39, 42, 46, 50, 60, 62, 64,
66, 75, 76, 77, 79, 81, 83. 8+,
85, 86, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96,
97, 100, 101, 102, 108, 112.
Governor oi,
great seal of, 27.
Secretary of, 26, 27.
some families of western, 76-78.
State Militia of, 112.
Fourth Regiment, ("onipain" E,
112.
Massachusetts Daughters of tlie .Amer-
ican Revolution, Society of
" Founders," 109.
{See also Socieitcs.)
Mathematics, professor of, 100.
{See also Schools.)
Matthewson, Mrs. Flora, 48, 81.
Mayflower, the {ship), 23, 38, 39, 42,
49, 60, 61, 62.
compact signed on, 23, 38.
commissioners signing, 23, 57.
second voyage of, 38.
" log," so-called, of the, 39.
Pilgrims, 59.
descendants, 89, 109.
{See also Ships.)
Mayflower Descendants, Society of,
banquet of, 39.
magazine, 88.
{See also Society.)
Signers, 58.
McCullough, Mrs. A. Starr, 71.
McFarlin, Miss Helen, 71.
Sampson, 31.
McGregory, Daniel E., 71.
Miss Edith, 71.
Gladys, 71.
Harry L., 71.
Mrs. Minnie T., 71
McGrevy, Mrs. Alida, 71.
Miss Dorothy V., 71.
McLouth (Kan.), 70.
McMillen, Martha E., 107.
Mecca, the, Plymouth (Mass.), of
New England, 49.
Mcdfield (Mass.), 72, 73.
medicine, 12.
Physicians, 12.
{See also Professions.)
Meetings of the Society of Descend-
ants of Robert Bartlet of
Plymouth see Society of
Descendants, etc.
Mellen, John O., 71.
Lewis B., 71.
Orson J., 71.
Memorial on site of home of Robert
Bartlet, to erect, 17,32,33,57.
exercises at site of, 47.
fund, 80.
work of Mercer V. Tilsin, relative
to, 76, 112.
Ijuildings, 26, 80.
expenses of, 34.
contributions towards, 51, i>2, 90.
tablet, 26, 80.
cost of, 36.
photograph of, sul)mitte(i, 36.
to Major-Geiil. William l^Vancis Bart-
let, 41.
Memorial shaft at Plymouth, 42.
{See also Plymouth.)
Meriden (Conn.), 87.
Methodist Church at Plymouth see
Churches.
Milburn (N. J.), 84.
Middleboro, (Mass.), 20, 30, 31, 68,
70, 72, 73, 89.
Middletown (Conn.), 70, 73.
Miiford (Conn.), 69.
Militia, state (Mass.), 112.
{See also Troops. )
Milk, five quarts of milk the equiva-
lent in value of fifteen dollars
of Continental money, 77.
Mihon (Mass.), 97.
Mining see Nevada.
Mills: —
Nonotuck Silk Company, 102.
Molines, Priscilla, 42.
robbed of her birthright, 42.
Money, Continental, comparati^•e
value of, with necessities of
life, 77.
Montclair (N. }.), 31, 68.
Moon, Mrs. Ella B., 71.
Morris, Edward Francis, 71.
Henry Wadsworth, 71, 110.
John Alden, 71.
Madeleine Preble see Scharf, Mrs.
Paul.
William Francis, 110.
William Longfellow, 110.
Winifred Grey, 71.
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Morton, Mrs. Martha B., 71.
Mortar and Pestle said to have been
brought over in the Ann in
1623, 96.
Motives which brought the Pilgrims
from Holland to the new
world, 39, 40.
(See also Pilgrims.)
{See also Holland.)
Mount Holyoke, 78.
Mount Tom (Holvoke, Mass.), 10, 78,
89, 91, 95.
Mountain Park, 75, 89, 91.
Mt. Holyoke see Mount Holyoke.
Mt. Tom see Mount Tom.
Munson's Sons, Joel (publishers) , 61.
{See also Publishers.)
Music, composer of songs and other,
106.
Committee on, see Committees.
N.
Napa (Cal.), 72.
Napersville (Mass.), 74, 97.
National Society of the Daughters of
the American Revolution,
charter member of the, 109.
of Daughters of Founders and Pa-
triots of America, 109.
New England Women, 109.
{See also Societies.)
National Genealogical Society, 109.
Geographical Society, 109.
{See also Societies.)
Nauman, Mrs. Polly McFarlin, 31.
Navy, 12.
{See also Professions.)
Necrology : —
Benjamin Bartlet, 10.
Hannah Bartlet, 10.
Mercer V. Tilson, 10, 76, 83, 90,
113.
Mrs. Vesta Bartlett Tower, 113.
Alice Bartlett Burdick, 76, 84,
89, 90, 113.
Amanda B. Waterman, 76, 95,
113.
Emily Bartlett, 95, 113.
Needham (Mass.), 97.
Neponset, 69.
Netherlands, E. E. and M. P. to the
Court of the, 109.
Nevada, 69, 71, 110.
Newark, 68, 75.
New Bedford (Mass.), 30, 67.
Newbury or Newberry, 9, 13, 24, 25.
Newcomber, Mrs. Elizabeth T., 71.
New England, 22, 38, 39, 44, 61, 95,
110.
colonies, 87.
laws of, have made, famous for
good government and ecjuity,
(See also Laws. )
Plymouth the Mecca of, 49.
New England Telegraph and Tele-
phone Company, 106.
Wom.en, National Society of, 109
[See also Societies.)
Hampshire, 31,40, 87, 97.
Haven (Conn.), 30, 67, 70, 74.
Jersey, 31, 68, 73, 75, 84, 93, 97.
Lenox (Mass.), 68.
Milford (Conn.), 70.
Newport (R. I.), 9.
Newspaper correspondent, 109.
{See also Professions.)
Newton (Mass.), 72
Highlands (Mass.), 70.
New York City (N. Y.), 68, 69, 71. 75,
101, 110.
New York, 61, 67, 68, 69, 71, 74, 93,
110.
Nichols, Mrs. Cora L., 71.
Miss Leora, 71.
Nickerson, Charles A., 71.
E. Elliott, 71.
John C, 71.
Miss Lina B., 71.
Mrs. Margaret B., 71.
Polly M., 71.
William B., 71.
Nonotuck Silk Company, 102.
{See also Mills.)
Norfolk (Va.), 75.
Norman Conquest, 24.
Normandy, 24.
Northampton (Mass.), 71, 73, 87, 102.
North Auburn (Me.), 31.
Easton (Mass.), 68, 70, 75, 97.
Hanson (Mass.), 31, 75.
Pearl St., Bridgewater (Mass.), 88
{Sec also Streets.)
Yakima (Wash.), 70.
O
Oath, freeman's see Freeman.
Officers of the Society of Descendants
of Robert Bartlet of Plym-
outh see Societv.
reports of, 17, 18, 19, "20, 21.
election of, 17, 19, 20, 26, 29, 31, 51,
84.
duties of, 27, 28.
vacancies on board of, 28.
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Officers and Emoluments, shameless
traffic in, 44.
Ohio, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 93.
Old Bridgewater Historical Society, 84.
{See also Societies.)
" Old North " Chapter, D. A. R.,
anthem of, 97.
South Meeting House, 39.
{See also Churches.)
Olds, Mrs. Ella S., 72.
Silas S., 72.
Olin, William M., 27.
Oneida Seminary, 108.
Open letter of Mercer V. Tilson see
Tilson.
Opie, Sarah, 63.
Nich., 63.
Orcutt, Alpheus, 72.
Orders: —
" Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows," 102.
hereditary:
"Americans of Armorial Ances-
try," 109.
" Descendants of Colonial Gov-
ernors," 109.
Oregon, 68, 70.
Otis, name of, 60.
James, 60.
Mercy, 60.
" Our Pilgrim Ancestors," address,
38-47.
Pabodie, Ruth, wife of Benjamin
(3) Bartlett, 111.
Pacific Ocean alone barred further
emigration from the East,
77.
Packard, Miss Anna E., 72.
Charles A., 72.
Charles E., 72.
Clayton L., 72.
Clifford I., 72.
Clifford S., 72.
Cyrus W., 72.
Frank, 72.
George O., 72.
Harley, 72.
Harold C, 72.
Harry, 72.
Henry, 72.
Herman, 17, 20, 30, 72, 97.
Miss Ida M., 72.
John H., 72.
Joseph A., 72.
Miss Lillian, 72.
Lucy, 72.
Luther W., 72.
Miss Margaret A., 72.
Margorie, 72.
Mrs. Mary C, 72.
Mary Carr, 30, 72.
Miss Mary E., 72.
Minnie R., 72.
Muriel, 72.
Miss Olive M., 72.
Parker, 72.
Miss Rachel A., 72.
Rachel M., 72.
Ralph A., 72.
Robert B., 72.
Miss Ruth A., 72.
Ruth E., 7^2.
Thomas T., 72.
Walter A., 72.
William, 72.
Palmer (Mass.), 19, 30, 68.
Panama Canal, 113.
Panama-Pacific I'niversal Exposition
at San Francisco (Cal.), 1915,
114.
invites Society of Descendants of
Robert Bartlet of Plymouth
to attend, 114.
Park Street Church (Boston), 83, 92.
{See also Churches.)
Parker House (Boston), agreement of
incorporation of Society,
signed at the, 52.
(See also Incorporation.)
Parliament (England), 24.
Bartletts in, 24.
{See also English.)
Pasadena (Cal.), 72.
Payson, George E., 72.
Mrs. Jerusha H., 72.
Julia R., 72.
Peacham (Vt.), 67.
Peabody see Pabodie (old form).
Pease, Kenneth, 72.
Pembroke (Mass.), 112.
Pension of Nathaniel Tower, 77.
Pennsylvania, 68, 93, 97.
Peoria (Ariz.), 67, 71, 73.
Perkins, Mrs. Amanda B., 72.
Philadelphia (Pa.), 68, 97.
Physicians see Medicine.
{See also Professions.)
Photograph of Memorial submitted,
36, 51.
members of the Society, 14, 56, 96,
100.
Pierce, Ebenezer, 62.
book by, entitled " Historical, Gen-
ealogical and Biographical,"
62.
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{See also Genealogies.)
Pilgrim " Mothers " also worth}' of
note, 40.
Pilgrims, 9, 15, 17, 22, 23, 38, 39, 40,
42, 43, 44, 49, 58, 59, 60, 62.
motives which brought the, to the
new world, 39, 40.
spirit of the, 43, 46.
debt we owe them, 38-47.
jests at expense of the term "Plym-
outh Rock," 45.
Pilgrims, singleness of purpose of the,
47.
Richard Warren, the Pilgrim, who
came o\x-r in the Muvflower
(1620), 61.
Pittsfield(Mass.), 67, 70.
Plaine Joan, the (ship), 61.
(See also Ships.)
John Warren who came in, 62.
Plainfield (Mass.), 72.
Plymouth (Eng.j, 63.
Plymouth (Mass.), 3, 9, 10, 11, 15.
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27,
30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 42, 50,
51, 54, 55, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62,
65, 66, 68, 70, 71, 73, 75, 76,
80, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89,
96, 97, 99, 100, 110, 112.
memorial shaft at, 42.
the Mecca of New England, 49.
land records of, 36.
town records, 23, 88.
colonial history of, 13.
objects of interest at, 15.
Colony, 23, 26, 41.
White Horse beach, 55.
Eel river, 23.
Court Street, 3, 47.
Brewster Street, 31, 47.
deed of land to Society, recorded at,
36.
South, 9.
Rock, 45.
settlement, 9.
(See also Settlements.)
(N. H.), 31.
Politics: —
Abolitionist, CJarrison, 102.
Prohibition, 102.
" Free Soil," 102.
Pope, Hannah, 102, 106, 108.
Porter, Mrs. H. C, 72.
Church, 85.
{See also Churches.)
Portland (Me.), 71, 109.
(Ore.), 68, 70.
Powers, Samuel, 46.
Pratt, Mrs. Elizabeth B., 53, 72.
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Preble, Hon, William Pitt, Judge of
the Supreme Court of Maine,
and foreign minister to the
Court of the Netherlands, 109.
Marianne, daughter of, and wife of
Stephen (5) Longfellow, 111.
Press correspondent on White House
list, 109.
(See also Professions.)
Professions: —
army, 12.
Bartlett, name of, figures among
the, 40.
bookkeeping and expert account-
ing, 100.
diplomat, 109.
divinity, 12.
law, 12.
literature, 108.
poetry, 108.
medicine, 12.
physicians, 12.
Navy, 12.
newspaper correspondent of White
House (Washington, D. C.) list, 109.
surveyors, 23.
teachers, 101, 108.
Prohibition ticket, 102.
(See also Politics.)
Providence (R. I.), 33, 41, 52, 75.
Provincial Congress, 60.
President of the, 60.
(See also Congresses.)
Publications, 26.
Publishers: —
Joel Munson's Sons, 61.
Puffer, D. R., 97.
Mrs. Mary T., wife of, 97.
Puritans, 38, 39, 44, 58.
Putnam Phalanx: —
Secretary of, 102.
Captain in veteran corps of, 102.
history of, written bv Lucius Warren
Bartlett, 102.
R.
Race intermarriages: —
Dutch and English, 40.
Rame (Cornwall, Eng.), 63.
Rancocas (N. J.), 97.
Randall, Harrison E., 73.
Herbert, 73.
Records in a family Bible, 10, 87, 88.
of the town of Plvniouth, 23.
will of Robert (1) Bartlet in, 23.
of the Bartlet Family, 24.
land, of Plymouth, 36.
of the Societv, relative to the memo-
rial to Robert Bartlet, 58.
]
of deaths, 88.
marriages, 88.
marriage of Hannah Stevens to
Benjamin Bartlet, 88.
Reed, Airs. Phebe A., 73.
Reports of the President of the Soci-
ety, relative to its incorpora-
tion, 52.
as Chairman Committee on Memo-
rial see Memorial.
Treasurer, 34, 53, 82, 89, 92.
Secretary, 32, ii, 34, 48, 50-53, 78-
8'2, 89-92.
Historian, 21, 22, 25, 57, 92-93,
94-95.
(See also Society.)
Research, antiquarian, 26.
historical, 26.
genealogical, 26.
Revolutionary War (1775-83), 18, 77.
Cummington (Mass.), soon after
the close of the, 13, 87, 101.
named of those who settled, 87.
Nathaniel Tower, a soldier in the, 77.
" high cost of living " as shown by
the purchasing value of his
pension, 77.
Rhode Island, 33, 67, 75.
Secretary of State (1855-1872), 41.
Rice, Miss Jessie K., 73.
Mrs. Joanna T., 73.
John M., 97.
Lilla E., 73.
Ralph, 73.
Richards, John, 63.
Richmond (Cal.), 68.
Richville (N. v.), 67.
Ritchie, Mrs. Hortense K., 73.
Rivers: —
Avon, the (England), 24, 54.
Connecticut, the, 77, 78.
Eel (Plymouth, Mass.), 23.
" Rivulet," the, autograph poem writ-
ten by, and given by William
CuUen Bryant to Mrs. Sa-
lome Bartlet, unfortunately
lost, 103-105.
Robbins, Hiram, 73.
Loring, 31, 73.
Miss Susan B., 73.
Robinson, Miss Flora B., 73.
Rev. John, 38.
Rockford (111.), 74.
Rockport (Mass.), 67.
Roosevelt, Theodore, administration
of, 109.
Roster of Living Descendants of Rob-
ert and Mary (Warren) Bart-
let of Plymouth, 66-75.
Roxbury (Mass.), 20, 26, 30, 34, 67,
70, 71.
history of, by Francis S. Drake, 60.
Russell, Elvina F., 106.
Salem (Mass.), 60, 61.
Salt Lake City (I'tah), 30, 67, 69, 70.
Sampson, Mrs. Mary H., 73.
Samson, John, HI.
Priscilla (Bartlet), wife of. 111.
Susannah, daughter of. 111.
and wife of General Peleg Wads-
worth, 111.
San Francisco (Cal.), 113.
Scharf, Dorothy Ellen, 73.
Eugene Arnold, 73.
Mrs. Paul (Madeleine Preble Mor-
ris), 73, 110.
Priscilla Alden, 73.
Schools: —
Bryant and Stratton, at Hartford
(Conn.), 100.
professor of mathematics in, 100.
bookkeeper and expert account-
ant, 100.
Schultz, Earl, 73.
Elva, 73. __
Howard, 73.
Miss Mildred, 73.
Ruby, 73.
Mrs. Velva M., 73.
Science, name of Bartlctt figures
among men of, 40.
Scituate (Mass.), 77, 101.
Sculpture, 41.
noted sculptor, 41.
Seattle (Wash.), 68, 69.
Second Congregational Church at
Plymouth (Mass.), 9.
(See also Plymouth.)
(See also Churches.)
Secretary-Treasurer, ofifice of, 108.
Separatists' church, 38.
(See also Churches.)
Settlements: —
first white, previous to 1639, 9.
Plymouth Rock, 9.
Second Precinct, 9.
clerks of, 9.
Pilgrim, 9.
Sheriff of Coventry (Eng.) see Cov-
entry.
Ships: —
Alice, the, 61.
Ann, the, 9, 11, 15, 19, 22, 23, 38,
40, 49, 55, 60, 62, 96.
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Arhella, the, 60, 61.
Fortune, the, 38.
Handmaid, the, 38.
Little James, the, 23, 38.
Mayflower, the, 23, 38, 39. 42, 49,
60.
Plaine Joan, the, 61, 62.
Shoe-making, 112.
{See also Trades.)
Short, Mrs. Josephine F., 73.
Sidnam (England), 63.
Signer of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, a, 40, 41.
{See also Bartlet, Dr. Josiah.)
Simmons, Mrs. Mary B., 73.
Moses, 53.
Singleton, Mrs. Blanche K., 73.
Miss Clara I., 73.
Frank E., 73.
Mrs. Lucy B., 73.
Slaves see Fugitive Slaves.
Smart, Mrs. Mary K., 73.
Sidney, Jr., 73.
Miss Virginia, 73.
Smith, Miss Dorris (Doris?), 73.
George A., 48, 81, 97.
Mrs. George A., 97.
Capt. John, 22, 97.
Karl b., 73.
Kirby, 73.
Lawrence F., 73.
Lindsley, Company, 34, 53.
Ralph W., 73.
Miss Verna, 73.
Walter, 73.
Societies: —
" Alden Kindred of America," 42,
81, 109.
Secretary of the 48, 81.
" American Society of Colonial Fam-
ilies," 10, 42, 81, 83, 85. 94.
banquets of the, 83.
Board of Assistants, 109.
magazine of the, 85.
Secretary of the, 48, 81, 85, 94.
" Antiquity, Society of " (Worces-
ter, Mass.), 12.
corresponding member of the, 12.
" Bradford Family," 42.
" Brewster Family," 42.
" Daughters of the American Revo-
lution," 109.
" Daughters of Founders a»</ Pat-
riots of America," 109.
" Daughters of Maine," 109.
" Descendants of Robert Bartlet of
Plymouth," 10, 19, 24, 54.
call to organize the, 11.
by-laws of, 20, 26, 30, 79, 86, 91.
Bartlett kindred, 49, 54.
insignia of the, 80, 83, 85.
" Founders Society " of the Massa-
chusetts D. A. R., 109.
" Genealogical, National," 109.
" Geographical, National," 109.
" Harlerian Society- " (England), 58,
59.
[See also England.)
" Mavflower Descendants," 39, 89,
■ 109.
" Old Bridgcwater Historical Soci-
ety," 84.
" Tower Genealogical Society," 48,
57, 81.
" Winslow Family " and others, 42.
Society, the, unless otherwise specified
see Society of the Descend-
ants of Robert Bartlet of
Plymouth.
Society of the Descendants of Robert
Bartlet of Plymouth, Inc.,
10, 11, LS, 21, 26, 32, 36, 47,
52, 55, 57, 58, 83, 84, 87, 89,
92, 95, 99.
first meeting, 10.
second reunion, 15, 16, 17, ?>2, 57.
election of ofificers, 17, 19, 20, 26, 33,
51, 96.
President' s address, 17-19.
report of Secretary, 19, 20.
permanent organization formed, 19.
list of Charter Members, 30-31.
third annual reunion, 31, 47, 57.
records of, 50-53.
election of officers, 31, 111.
old, dissolved, charter of new ac-
cepted, 52.
deed of land to, 36.
letter to Charles H. Stone, from
Secretary of, 58.
dues of, 20, 79, 83.
constitution and by-laws, 20.
report of Treasurer, 21, 82.
Historian, 21, 22, 25.
third reunion, 31, 57.
by-laws, 26, 30.
amendments to, 29^ 30, 79, 80.
duties of officers, 27, 2^.
vacancies in office, hcnv filled, 28
meetings, 28.
fourth annual reunion, 47, 78-82.
address of President, 48, 49, 50, 78.
order of exercises, 47, 48.
roll-call of members, 78, 79.
election of officers, 79, 90.
fiscal year of, 79. 80.
associate memlters of, 79.
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Roster of living (k'sreiulants, 66 75.
fifth annual reunion, 75-83, 8<)-')l.
President's address, 76-78.
Secretary's report, 89-92.
Historicui's report, 83, 84, 94, 95.
permanent insignia of, SO.
sixth annual reunion of, 85-97.
call for, 85.
programme of, 85.
President's address, 87-89.
Insignia of the Society, 80, 83, 85.
description and price, 85.
gifts to the, 96.
mailing list of, 87.
meeting of executi\"e board of, 92.
general history of, to print, .96.
place of meeting of, 92.
policy of the, 107.
loss and gain in membership. 94.
growth of, 95.
members held in loving remem-
brance by the, 112.
invitation to the Society to attend
the Panama-Pacific Universal
Exposition in 1915, 114.
Somerville (Mass.), 71.
" Songs of Friendship," ^■olume of
verse by Ermina (Bart left)
Suhanek, 108.
Soule, Mrs. Amanda B., 31.
South Boston (Mass.), 81.
Braintree (Mass.), 81.
Cowes (Mass.), 71.
Hanson (Mass.), 26, 30, Si, 64, 74,
76, 79, 84, 88, 90, 97, 112.
Plymouth (Mass.), 9, 35, 57.
Spence, Miss Eva, 74.
Mrs. Lulu B., 74.
Spokane (Wash.), 68.
Springfield (Mass.), 30, 31, 66, 69, 70,
72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 90, 91, 97.
Squier, Mrs. Cora B., 73.
Standish, Myles, 42.
State Council of Connecticut , Executive
Board of, member of the, 102.
Stationers, 101.
Stephens, Hannah see Stevens.
Sterling Manufacturing Company, 102.
Sternberger, Jesse H., 73.
William A., 73.
Stevens, Hannah, 102, 108.
marriage of, 88.
(See also Records.)
Harold E. E., 97.
Mrs. Mary A., 97.
Stone, Charles A., 36.
sale of land to, 36.
letter to, from the Secretary of the
Society, 58.
Stopham (Sussex Count\-, I-^ngland),
13, 24.
church, 24.
Sd.u^hton (Mass.), 10, 11, 14, 1'), 30,
54, 68, 71, 76, 88, 89, <)7, 100,
101.
remo\al of Edward Hartk'tt from,
77, 87.
Stowell, Deborah, of Hingham (Mass.),
77.
Stranger within our gates, the del)t
we owe the, 43.
Stratton, Bryant and, School, 100.
{See also Schools.)
Streeter, Mrs. Vesta W., 73.
Streets: —
Brewster (Plymouth, Mass.), 31,
47, 50.
Court (Plvmouth, iMass.), 31, 47,
50.
Park (Boston, Mass.), 83, 93.
North Main (Brockton, Mass.), 85.
North Pearl (Bridgewater, Mass.),
88.
Strong, Mrs. Eunice B., 73.
Sturtevant, Miss Alice, 73.
Aimer V., 73.
Aliss Zilpha, 73.
Suhanek, Ermina (Bartlett), 6, 26, 27,
30, 32, 34, 48, 51, 53, 73, 75,
79, 81, 83, 86, 90, 91, 92, 94,
95,96, 97, 110.
reports of, 32, 33, 34, 48, 50-53,
78-82, 89-91, 92, 95, 97.
letter of, to Charles H. Stone, 58.
birthplace of, 108.
faithful services of, 95.
teacher, 108.
ancestral line from Robert (1), 108.
author of " Songs of Friendship,"
108.
Joseph, 108.
birthplace of, 108.
Superior (Wis.), 70.
Supreme Court of Maine, Judge of the,
109.
(See also Law.)
Sussex County (England), 13, 24.
Swans, 8, 24.
Sylvester, John E., 73.
Tablet, bronze, see Boulder,
tablets, 26.
expenses of, 34.
list of contributors towards expense
of, 53.
(See also Memorial.)
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Tacoma (Wash.), 67.
Taunton (Mass.), 71.
Taussig, Rudolph J., 114.
Taylor, Zachary (President of the
United States), 41.
Teachers, 100, 108.
{See also Professions.)
Tennessee, 67.
Texas, 67, 93.
Thetford (Vt.), 25.
Thompsonville (Conn.), 102.
Thrall, Miss Alice, 74, 80, 90, 97.
Emma B., 30, 74, 97.
loseph B., 74.
"Oliver J., 30.
Throw, Miss Bessie, 74.
Mrs. Ida B., 74.
Margaret, 74.
Nancy, 74.
Tillson, Arthur, 74.
Miss A. Lenore, 74.
Byron W., 74.
Cyrus M., 74.
Miss Dorothy F"., 74.
Earl, 74.
Edward H., 97.
Mrs. Edward H., 97.
Edmund, 74, 87.
P21isha Avery, 97.
John A., 74.
Miss Mabel, 74.
Marian, 74.
Mercer V. see Tilson.
Roland F., 53, 74, 97.
Elizabeth (7), wife of Ephraim (6)
Bartlett, 101, 108.
Edmund (7), 100, 101.
Phebe Bartlett, wife of, 101.
Welcome ( ), 101.
Leah Tower, wife of, 101.
Ephraim (6), 101.
Fear (Waterman), 101.
Tilson, name of, 13, 15, 64, 76, 78.
{See also Tillson.)
family of, 64, 77-78.
{See also Tilson Genealogy.)
Edmond, 65.
Edmund, 13.
John Q., 30, 74.
Mercer V., 26, 27, 30, ii, 36, 51,
58, 64, 74, 79, 82, 88.
bill rendered by, 34.
open letter of, 64, 65.
maps of land, made by, 58.
death of, 10, 76, 84, 90, 113.
soldier, genealogist and author,
84.
biography of, 112.
tribute to, 112.
farm, 77.
Elizabeth, 102.
Welcome, 78, 87.
Leah Tower, wife of, 78.
descendants of Edmund, 78.
Genealogy, 10, 64, 65, 84, 88, 112.
price of, 65.
{See also Genealogies.)
Tipton (la.), 67, 74.
Toledo (Ohio), 75.
Tower of Fontenoy, capture of, 8, 24.
Tower, name of, 13.
John (1), of Hingham (Mass.), 100.
genealogical lines, 76, 77, 78.
genealogy, 87, 112.
Leah, date of death of, 77.
wife of Welcome Tilson, 78.
Luther B., 87.
Steven, 87.
{See also Stephen.)
line of, 77.
records in family Bible of, 87, 88.
Anna (Bowker), wife of, 77, 101.
Rhoda (7), 101.
Nathaniel, 77.
a pensioner of the Revolutionary
War.
{See also Revolutionary War.)
Milly (Bartlett), 87, 88.
descendants of John, one hundred
and sixty-eight on roster, 78.
George Warren, 48, 81.
Walter, 74.
Genealogical Society, 57, 81, 87, 100.
officers and members of the, 76.
{See also Societies.)
Peter (5), 87, 101.
line of, 77.
Deborah (Stowell), wife of, 77.
Salome, 100, 101, 102, 108.
Charles W., 74, 97.
Charlemagne, representative of, 87.
Cullen, 74.
Miss Esther, 74.
George Warren, 48, 81, 97.
Miss Grace, 74.
Henry L., 74.
Herbert, 74.
John, 13.
Miss Mary A., 31.
Stephen, 15.
Theodore Parker, 30, 74.
Town clerks, 9.
moderator, 9.
meeting, form of, derived from Hol-
land and Germany, 44.
Mrs. Mabel T., 74.
Towns, hill, west of the Connecticut
river, settled, 77.
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Trades: —
cooper, 23.
wine, 23.
shoe-making, 112.
iron molding, 112.
Translations from the French, 110.
Treasurer's reports, 21, 34, 53.
Treasurer-Secretary, office of see Sec-
retary.
Troops, State (Mass.), Militia, 112.
Fourth Regiment, Company E., 112.
Tucker, Robert, 61.
Sarah, daughter of, 61.
Turner (Me.), 73.
U.
Ulrich, Mrs. Flora B., 30, 53.
Miss Olive E., 74.
W. Leroy, 30, 74.
United States of America, 41, 44, 45.
President of the, 41.
duty of the immigrant to these, 44,
45.
Coast Survey, 35, 57.
Volunteers, 112.
Call of Abraham Lincoln, April 16,
1861, for troops, 112.
{See also Wars, Civil.)
Universal Exposition (1915), Panama-
Pacific, at San Francisco
(Cal.), 114.
Society of Descendants of Robert
Bartlet of Plymouth invited
to attend, 114.
Utah, 30, 67, 68, 69, 70, 93.
V.
Vermont, 30, 67, 70.
Verses by Miss Mary A. Hopkins, 98.
book of, by Ermina B. Suhanek, 98.
the Historian, 110.
Virginia, 38, 61, 62, 75.
Visitations of Devonshire County,
England, 59, 63.
{See also Harlerian Society Chart.)
{See also England.)
W.
Wadsworth, Elizabeth (Bartlet), wife
of General Peleg, 40, 111.
Deacon Peleg, HI.
Susannah (Samson), wife of. 111.
General Peleg (Penobscot Expedi-
tion), 111).
captured by British, 40.
imprisoned at Fort George, Cas-
tine (Me.), 40.
escaped from, 40.
Walker, name of, 60.
Walpole (Mass.), 74.
Waltham (Mass.), 71, 73, 97.
War of the Rebellion see Civil War,
(1861-1865).
Revolution (1775-1783), 39.
{See also Wars.)
Ware (Mass.), 70.
Warner (N. H.), 13, 87.
Warren estate, 61.
name of, 40.
homestead, 61.
children of Peter and Sarah.
John, Joseph, Benjamin, Eliza-
beth, Robert, Ebenezer and
Peter, 61.
Peter, 60, 61.
children of Peter and Hannah
(2d wife) :
Hannah, Mary, Robert, 61.
Joseph (4) and Mary (Stevens):
Joseph, Samuel, Ebenezer and
John, 61.
Ann, 62, 63.
Sarah, 62, 63.
Elizabeth, 59, 61, 62.
Abigail, 62.
Joseph, 62.
children of Rev. Robert Warren
and Mary (Burgis): Christo-
pher, Robert, Thomas, Peter,
Nathaniel, Margaret, Anne,
63.
John, of Hedbury (England), 63.
Christopher, son of, 63.
William, 63.
Ann (Mable), 63.
Robert, 63.
Margaret (Burgis), wife of Rev.
Robert, 63.
Nathaniel, 59, 60, 61, 62.
Robert, 61.
Sarah, 61, 62, 63.
Thomas, 63.
Alice (Webb), 59.
Benjamin, 61.
Charles H., 33, 36, 52, 75.
Christopher, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63.
General James, 60.
John, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63.
Ebenezer, 61.
Hannah, 61.
General Joseph, 60.
John C, 61, 62.
ancestry of, 60.
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Warren, Mar}-, 7, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17, 22,
23, 32, 38, 43, 47, 57, 59, 60,
61, 62, 63, 66, 83, 102, 106,
108, 111.
of French ancestry, 43.
lines of descent from, 100-111.
(See also Bartlet.)
Richard (1), 9, 15, 23, 33, 57, 58,
59, 60, 61, 62, 63.
wife of, 22, 23, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63.
son Richard, 63.
in regard to his family, 59.
one, said to have been sheriff of
Coventry (England) in 1610,
59, 60.
{See also Coventry, England.)
grandson of, also Richard, 61.
children of, and Elizabeth (Jouat),
widow of Marsh:
Richard, John, Mary, Ann, Sarah,
Elizabeth, and Abigail (born
in England), Nathaniel a)id
Joseph (born in Plymouth,
Mass.), 62.
of Greenwich (Kent), 63.
" Warrens," The, address by the Pres-
ident, Lucius Warren Bart-
lett, 58-62.
[See also Addresses.)
Warrens, the, statements of genealo-
gists regarding, 61.
the Virginia, 61.
and the Wheelers, 62.
Wars: —
Boer, 24.
Civil, 9, 12, 18, 14, 112.
Revolutionary, 3, 18, 39, 87.
Washington (D. C), 68, 73, 109, 110.
(State), 67, 68, 69, 70.
Waterman, Mrs. Amanda B., 75, 95.
Fear, 101.
Watertown (Mass.), 13, 24, 61.
John Warren of, 62.
Waterville (Vt.), 30.
Waureka (Wis.), 75.
Weatherbee, Miss Blanche G., 75.
Clara G., 75.
Webb, Alice, 63.
Thomas, 63.
Wellman, Charles, 74.
Edward C, 74.
Miss Fanny, 74.
Louise, 74.
Mrs. Mary E., 74.
Wellston (Ohio), 73.
West Cummington (Mass.), 68, 70, 72.
Westfield (Mass.), 67.
West Haven (Conn.), 67.
Newton (Mass.), 97.
Springfield (Mass.), 68, 69, 71, 73.
Worthington (Mass.), 73.
Weyman, Wesley, 75.
Weymouth (Mass.), 12, 31, 69, 78, 89,
96, 97.
exodus from, and other towns, 77.
John Bartlet of, 87.
Wheaton, Earl, 75.
Wheeler, Henry Warren, 61.
book by, 61.
{See also (Genealogies.)
White, Miss Eliza B., 75.
Mrs. Emma B., 75.
Miss Flora, 75.
J. Bartlett, 75.
Miss Mabel M., 75.
White Horse beach, 32, 55.
Crescent Hotel at, 55.
(See also Plymouth.)
" White House,' the (Washington,
D. C), 109.
White settlement, the first, previous to
1639, 9.
White, Joseph, 31.
Whitman (Mass.), 30, 31, 70, 71, 89.
Whittemore, Frances T., 106.
.Whitty, Mrs. Mabel H., 75.
William the Conqueror, 8, 13, 40, 54,
57.
Williamsburg (Mass.), 72.
Williamson, Mrs. Flora B., 75, 97.
Wilmington (Vt.), 67.
Wilson, J. Bartlett, 75.
Mrs. Kate B., 75.
Windsor (Conn.), 30, 67, 70, 74, 80, 90,
96, 97, 100.
(Mass.), 72.
Winslow, name of, 60.
Winsted (Conn.), 68, 70, 71.
Winthrop, Governor John, 60.
John \\'arren who came from Eng-
land with, 61.
Wisconsin, 70, 75, 93.
" Woman's Who's Who in America,"
110.
Wood, Chas. A. Wood, 114.
Fred L., 75.
Mrs. Harriet B., 75.
Helen K., 75.
Miss Winifred B., 75.
Woodland (England), 63.
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Worcester (Mass.), 12, 71.
Society of Antiquity, 12.
(See also Societies.)
Worship God, to, in their own way
not the onh' reason for which
the Pilgrims came to the new
world, 39, 40.
(See also Pilgrims.)
Worthington (Ohio), 68.
(Mass.), 31, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71,
74, 95, 101.
Wyoming, 67.
V.
Voiimans, Mrs. Theodora W., 75.
Young, Dr. Alexander, 39.
Mrs. Carrie B., 75.
Miss Grace M., 75.
72,
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