Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren
Robert Bartlett's story in the new World began with the ship Ann and his payment for passage to Plymouth in the Massachusetts colony. He arrived in 1621 and in 1628 he had married Mary, the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Warren. Robert and Mary lived on a large farm. Mary died before her husband Robert. They had the following children: Rebecca, Mary, Sarah, Benjamin (1638-), Joseph (1639-), Elizabeth, Lydia (1647-), and Mercy (1651-).1
Benjamin Bartlett married Susanna Jenney. Rebecca married William Harlow on December 20, 1649. Sarah married Samuel Rider on December 23, 1656. Joseph married Hannah Pope. Elizabeth married Anthony Sprague on December 26, 1661. Lydia married James Barnaby in 1670 and John Nelson in 1677.2
Bartlett's biography can also be described:
Benjamin Bartlett married Susanna Jenney. Rebecca married William Harlow on December 20, 1649. Sarah married Samuel Rider on December 23, 1656. Joseph married Hannah Pope. Elizabeth married Anthony Sprague on December 26, 1661. Lydia married James Barnaby in 1670 and John Nelson in 1677.2
Bartlett's biography can also be described:
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1623 on Anne
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
OCCUPATION: Wine cooper
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: On May 1 1660 at Plymouth court "Robert Bartlett appeared, being summoned in answer for speaking contemptuously of singing of psalms, and was convict of the fact..."
FREEMAN: In the "1633" Plymouth list of freemen in proximity to those admitted on 1 January 1632/3. On list of 7 March 1636/7. In Plymouth section of lists freemen of 1639 and (apparently) 1658.
EDUCATION: Signed all deeds by mark. Inventory included books valued at 7s.
OFFICES: Committee to lay out highways, 2 May 1637; Plymouth petit jury, 6 June 1643, 28 October 1645, 7 June 1648, 6 March 1649/50, 4 October 1653, 7 March 1653/4, 3 October 1654, 3 May 1659; Plymouth grand jury, 5 June 1644, 2 June 1646, 17 May 1649, 7 June 1652, 8 June 1655; surveyor of highways, 4 June 1645, 4 June 1661; committee to lay out land, 24 May 1660. In Plymouth section of 1643 list of men able to bear arms.
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth land division granted one acre as a passenger on the Anne. In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle "Robert Bartlet" was the twelfth person in the tenth company. Assessed 9s. in the Plymouth tax lists of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634. On 1 July 1633 it was ordered that "Mrs Warren & Rob[er]t Bartlet mow where they did last year..." On 28 May 1635 "Thomas Litle came before the Governor and acknowledged that he had given unto Robert Bartlet a parcel of land at the end of his lot beyond Eel River," and describes himself as brother-in-law to Bartlett. On 14 march 1635/6 it was ordered that "Mrs. Warren, Rich. Church, Tho. Litle, & Rob[er]t Bartlet mow where they did last year...". On 20 March 1636/7 it was ordered that "Richard Church, Rob[er]te Bartlet, & Thomas Little, [have] hay ground where they had the last year, and to take further supply where they can find it, in places not granted to others, and Rob[er]te Bartlet to have the swamp or put at the head of Mr. Bradford's ground". On 5 May 1640 "Richard Church, Rob[er]te Bartlett, Thomas Little, & Mrs. Elizabeth Warren are granted enlargements at the heads of their lots to the foot of the Pine Hills..." On 7 February 1637 "Mrs. Elizabeth Warren of the Eele River widow for and in consideration of a marriage solemnized betwixt John Cooke and the younger of the Rockey Nooke and Sarah her daughter" granted to the said John Cooke "eighteen acres or thereabouts and lying on the north side of Robert Bartlett's lot formerly also given the said Robert in marriage with Mary another of the said Mrs. Warren's daughters". On 11 November 1637 John Cooke exchanged this eighteen acre parcel with Robert Bartlett for a "lot of land of like quantity lying on Duxborrow side betwixt the lots of Thomas Morton and Jonathan Bewster". On 9 April 1649 Richard Church sold to Robert Bartlett for [25 pounds] a "house and housing and land with all the meadow ground with the addition that he had of Goodman Kemton at the Eel River". On 7 March 1652 Robert Bartlett held a full share as a purchaser of Dartmouth. On 30 January 1653 Samuel Hicks of Plymouth, planter, sold to Robert Bartlett of Plymouth, cooper, for [eighteen pounds] eleven acres of upland on the south side of Plymouth. Robert Bartlett appears in a march 1651 Plymouth town list of those "that have interest and properties in the town's land at Punckateesett River against Road Iland". On 22 march 1663 the lots at "Puncateesett" were described, Robert Bartlett sharing the 24th lot with James Cole Sr. On 8 March 1668/9 Robert Bartlett of Plymouth, cooper, sold to John Almey of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, merchant, for [three pounds] his share in land granted by the town of Plymouth in 1649 "lying over against Rhode Island aforesaid, at the place commonly called and known by the name of Punckateesett". On 27 June 1659 Robert Bartlett of Plymouth, cooper, egnaged to pay to Benjamin Foster, the son of Richard Foster, [eight pounds] when he reaches the age of twenty-one, on the condition that Bartlett would have the use of Richard Foster's land for the term of ten years; and "Mary the wife of said Richard Foster deceased" engages to bring up the said Benjamin Foster, who is now four years old. In 1660 the town of Plymouth granted to Robert Bartlett fifty acres "lying between the sea and the fern swamp between the Eelriver and Mannomett ponds". On 26 January 1663 the town of Plymouth granted to those living at Eel River a quarter-mile extension on their lots, towards the pine hills. On 21 February 1663 the town of Plymouth granted to Robert Bartlett eight acres of meadow that had been in dispute. On [blank] July 1667 the town of Plymouth granted to Robert Bartlett "a piece of swamp...to make meadow of lying adjoining to his meadow at the Eelriver". On 14 July 1670 Robert Bartlett of Plymouth, wine cooper, gave to "my son-in-law James Barnabey, cordwinder" of Plymouth and "my daughter Lydia Barnabey his wife" twenty acres "by me purchased of the said my brother-in-law Richard Church," and four acres of upland meadow added to it. On 17 February 1670/1 Robert Bartlett of Plymouth, cooper, sold to Thomas Burge Jr. of Newport, Rhode Island, for [fifty pounds] half his share of land at Acushena in Dartmouth and half his share of land at Pascomansucke in Dartmouth (reserving one-third of the last named share). On 14 July 1673 "Robert Bartlett of the town of Plymouth...wine cooper" granted to "my son Joseph Bartlett" for love and affection " all that my farm, messuage, tenement and seat, which I now live in and am possessed of, in the township of Plymouth aforesaid, situate and being at a place or river commonly called Eel River: viz: all that my house and land there"; four acres of marsh meadow there; and two acres of fresh or upland meadow; to be entered upon by his son on the death of the grantor and his wife. On 19 September 1676 Robert Bartlett made a nuncupative will, bequeathing to "my wife all my estate yet undisposed of wheather it be in lands or moveables, goods, chattels, debts. I give all unto my wife to be absolutely at her dispose among my children". The inventory of the estate of Robert Bartlett was taken 29 October 1676 and totalled [one hundred and seventy pounds] 16s. 6d., including [100 pounds] in real estate: "2 dwellinghouses and a barn, upland and meadow". On 6 March 1676/7 "Letters of administration is granted by the court unto Mary Bartlett & Joseph Bartlett to administer the estate of Robert Bartlett, deceased". On 13 February 1677 "Mary Bartlett widow and late wife unto Robert Bartlett deceased" sold to "my son Joseph Bartlett" for [three hundred pounds] all the estate which was reserved to her for use for life in the deed of gift from her husband Robert Bartlett to the said Joseph Bartlett, as well as fifty acres of upland "near a place commonly called the salt marsh...between the Eel river and Mannomett Ponds," fifty acres of upland lying between the land of Ephraim Morton Jr. and the land that did belong to James Barnaby deceased, a parcel of meadow on the Eelriver, and all personal estate given her by husband Robert Bartlett in his will.
BIRTH: Born by about 1604 based on estimated date of marriage
DEATH: Plymouth between 19 September 1676 (date of will) and 29 October 1676 (date of probate).
MARRIAGE: By about 1629 Mary Warren, daughter of Richard Warren (on 7 March 1636/7 Elizabeth Warren, widow of Richard Warren was made a purchaser in his stead, in part because "of the lots of lands given formerly by her unto her sons in law, Richard Church, Robert Bartlett, and Thomas Little, in marriage with their wives, her daughters", and this was confirmed on 5 October 1652; she died between 13 February 1677/8 and 1683.
CHILDREN (all born Plymouth):
i. Benjamin, b. say 1629; m. (1) by 1654 Susanna Jenney, daughter of John Jenney (in her will of 4 April 1654 Sarah Jenney, widow of John Jenney, bequeathed to "my son Benjamin Bartlett," and to Mr. Thomas Chusman "the bible wich was my daughter Susanna's"; m. (2) after 4 April 1654 Sarah Brewster, daughter of Love Brewster; m. (3) before 21 January 1678 Sissilla ____ (named in his will of 21 August 1691).
ii. Rebecca, b. say 1631; m. Plymouth 20 December 1649 William Harlow.
iii. Mary, b. say 1633; m. (1) Plymouth 10 September 1651 Richard Foster; m. (2) Plymouth 8 July 1659 Jonathan Morey (marriage contract dated 27 June 1659).
iv. Sarah, b. say 1636; m. Plymouth 23 December 1656 Samuel Rider.
v. Joseph, b. about 1639; m. by about 1662 Hannah Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope; "March the 12, 1710 My dear wife Hannah Bartlet died being near 72 years of age, myself being six months younger than she when she died...". (If the date given for the death of Hannah is 12 March 1710/1, then she was probably born in the first half of 1639, which would place her husband's birth late in 1639.)
vi. Elizabeth, b. say 1641; m. Plymouth 26 December 1661 Anthony Sprague.
vii. Lydia, b. 8 June 1649 (despite the fact that this is published as a birth of 1647, it is clear from the sequence of records that it should be for 1648); m. (1) by about 1670 James Barnaby; m. (2) shortly after 30 October 1677 John Nelson as his second of three wives; she d. Plymouth 11 September 1691.
viii. Mercy. b. 10 March 1650/1; m. Plymouth 25 December 1669 John Joy of Boston. 3
Mary Bartlett and Richard Foster & Mary Bartlett and Jonathan Morey
Mary Bartlett married Richard Foster, her first husband on September 10, 1651 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. She married her second husband, Jonathan Morey on July 8, 1659.4 For more information please see the Morey page.
Sources
Biographical information provided by Heather Wylie.
1. The Tilson genealogy: from Edmond Tilson at Plymouth, N E, 1638 to 1911: with brief sketches...ancestry.com.
2. Plymouth Colony Records. Ancestry.com, pg 314.
3. New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins,1620-1635. Ancestry.com, 2013, Provo, UT, USA. pg 112- 116
4. New England Marriages prior to 1700. Ancestry.com, pg 525.
1. The Tilson genealogy: from Edmond Tilson at Plymouth, N E, 1638 to 1911: with brief sketches...ancestry.com.
2. Plymouth Colony Records. Ancestry.com, pg 314.
3. New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins,1620-1635. Ancestry.com, 2013, Provo, UT, USA. pg 112- 116
4. New England Marriages prior to 1700. Ancestry.com, pg 525.