John Bartlett, of Rehoboth

link to Narragansett Historical Register, Volume 6, Page 31, “John Bartlett of Rehoboth.”

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1666- He and his family were at Weymouth, MA by this year.

1671-1682: He removed to Mendon, MA.

1682, June 6- He purchased land and removed to a place called Senechetaconnet, which, at that time, was in the town of Rehoboth and under the jurisdiction of Plymouth Colony, but now known as Manville, in the town of Cumberland, RI. He lived here for the next two years until his death in 1684.

   from BARTLETT FAMILY 1892:

John probably came from England as a youth or young man. He and his wife, Sarah, were at Weymouth before 1666. In 1671 he removed to Mendon,MA, and was there in 1679 and 1682. On 6 Jun 1682, he bought land and removed to the place called Senechtaconnet, which at that time, was in the town of Rehoboth and under the jurisdiction of the Plymouth Colony, but now known as Manville, in the town of Cumberland and State of Rhode Island,

   where he died. Sarah, his wife died the following year.

John lived in Weymouth, MA in 1666; Mendon, RI by 1672; and in Rehoboth, MA by 1683. Although he was listed as head of a household in Mendon at the outbreak of King Philip's War, he left and did not return until after peace had been secured, as did the rest of the settlers there. He left a very large estate to his eight children, who were all then minors; in Jan 1698/9, the children, except Noah and Daniel who were not of age, petionned to settle

   the estate.

John Bartlett was of Weymouth, Mendon, and Rehoboth, MA. In 1672, he was at Mendon, where he received lot number 9 in a division of swamp land. In 1675, he was one of the heads of families resident at Mendon, but left that town at the outbreak of King Philip's War as did the rest of the settlers, though he and many others returned after peace had been secured. On 5 June 1683, he took the oath of fidelity, being now a resident of Rehoboth.

   On 26 Feb 1685 the inventory of his estate, amounting to 138 pounds, 17 shillings, 3 pense, was sworn to be John Bartlett and Sarah Aldrich.

By 1683 he had moved to the Rehoboth/Attleboro area of MA/RI. On 5 June 1683, he took the oath of fidelity, being now a resident of Rehoboth. Later bought 500 acres of land in Cumberland, RI, married Sarah Aldrich, died 1684.
As John Bartlett had removed to Rehoboth, and within the jurisdiction of Plymouth, according to the custom of those times, he was obliged to take the oath of allegiance, or "fidelity," to that government. This he did, as we find the following in the Plymouth Colony Court Records, 6 Jun1683: "This Court, Captain Richmond, of Little Compton, and John Bartlett. of Rehoboth, took the oath of fidelitie to this government."(*) John Bartlett and his wife did not long enjoy their new possessions. The Rehoboth records have this: (+)"John Bartlett buried 17th August, 1684. Sarah, wife of John Bartlett, buried 17th January, 1684-5." After her husband's death,
(*)Precisely one year from the date of the deed of land which he bought from William Sabin.

   Sarah had petitioned the General Court at Plymouth for letters of administration, but before they reached her, she, too, had died. The case was again taken under advisement, at a court held in Plymouth, 5 Mar 1684/5, and the following order was passed: "Whereas, administration was granted to Sarah Bartlett, relict of John Bartlett, late of Rehoboth, and an order to the Worsh Mr. Daniel Smith to take her oth to the inventory, but before there was oppertunity for soe doeing, said Sarah died, the Court therefore requests the Worsh Mr. Daniel Smith, together with the celect men of Rehoboth, to make enquiry for a fitte person to take out letters of administration on the estate, and that the younger children, by the said Mr. Smith, and the celect men of the towne, be disposed as may be most for theire good & least charge to the estate, and the estate be according to theire best judgment secured and improued for the benefitt of the orphanes, and that they giue accounpt of theire actings and all matters relating to said children and estate to the next Court, and for theire confeirmation, and further settleing the children that ma chuse theire guardians, be sent to the General Court for approbation. And if a meete psn psent himself that will giue bond to adminnestration to the said pson, and giue oth to the inventory, and that hee make a return of his doeings to the next Court." The estate was "inventoried and apprised by the Proprietors," February 26, 1684, and a copy sent to Plymouth, which is on record there. The following articles were mentioned in the inventory:

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John and Sarah first settled at Weymouth, Massachusetts, about 1666. He was one of those who had invested his money in the development of the town as a Proprietor, he then moved to Mendon, MA, in 1671. At a town meeting held on the first day of, January 1672, he was granted a twenty-acre house lot with all the rights and privileges that other twenty acre lot owners had accept that he had to wait for his Meadow until all other inhabitants who had come before him had received theirs. At the town meeting on the eighteenth day of March, that year, it was voted by the freemen and granted that he should pay ten pounds for his

   lot which was on the west side of Mill River.

John was the contractor who built the house of the Reverend Grindal Rawson, Mendon's minister. It was voted by the freemen on the fourteenth day of November 1681, that a note for sixteen pounds due him should be paid. They were to pay one half in Indian corn, at two shillings a bushel and the other half in pork at two pence a pound, this being the same that

   was to be paid when the house was finished.

On the sixth day of June 1682, John bought of William Sabin, fifty acres of land on the Pawtucket river, now called Blackstone River, in Rehoboth, MA, now part of RI. On the sixth day of June 1683 he agreed to take the Oath of Allegiance, or of Fidelity to Massachusetts

   government.

John died at the age of forty was buried on the seventeenth day of August 1684, at Rehoboth. It was the custom at that time, in Rehoboth, to record the date of burial instead of the time of death. This was also the method in a few other towns in early times. John's estate was a large estate to have in those days, and this, too, just after the close of that devastating war with King Phillip, when all suffered such extreme losses.
At that time, nearly every article of manufacture was imported from England, and it had not been many years since their cows and horses were received from the mother country. The cows were so useful for the dairy, and were also brought into requisition at the plow and cart, very few settlers keep oxen.
1 2 Residence: BEF 1666 Weymouth, Norfolk, MA U. S. A. 3 Residence: AFT 1666 Mendon, Worcester, MA U. S. A. 3 Death: AUG 1684 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA U. S. A. 4 5 6 Burial: 17 AUG 1684 Rehoboth, Bristol, MA U. S. A. 5 Occupation: carpenter 5

Marriage 1 Sarah ALDRICH b: 16 JAN 1644 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA U. S. A.

   Married: ABT 1665 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA U. S. A.

   Note:

from TORREY:
BARTLETT, John (-1684) & Sarah [ALDRICH] (1682+); by 1666(?7), by 11 Feb 1666; Weymouth/Mendon {Weymouth 3:22; Sv. 1:131; Pope's Pioneers 13; Tingley-Meyers 10; Bartlett (1892) 13, 89; Snow-Estes 2:94, 101}
7 6 8 9 10
Children

   Has Children John BARTLETT b: 11 FEB 1665/6 in Weymouth, Norfolk, MA U. S. A.

   Has Children Samuel BARTLETT b: 28 MAR 1670 in Weymouth, Norfolk, MA U. S. A.

   Has No Children Jacob BARTLETT

   Has No Children Moses BARTLETT

   Has No Children Sarah BARTLETT

   Has No Children Mary BARTLETT

   Has No Children Noah BARTLETT

   Has No Children Daniel BARTLETT

Sources:

   Abbrev: Bartlett (1892)

   Title:

   The Bartletts

The Bartletts. Ancestral, genealogical, biographical, historical. (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), (Printed by New Haven, Conn., Press of the Stafford Printing Co. Thomas Edward Bartlett, The Bartletts. Ancestral, genealogical, biographical, historical. Comprising an account of the American progenitors of the Bartlett family, with special reference to the Descendants of John Bartlett, of Weymouth and Cumberland, 1892).
See also:
Descendants of John and Sarah Aldrich Bartlett

   Jackie Drybread

   Repository:

       Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society

       Boston, MA 02116

       U. S. A.

   Abbrev: Bartlett of Rehoboth

   Title: John O. Austin, John Bartlett of Rehoboth and Some of His Descendants

   Repository:

       Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society

       Boston, MA 02116

       U. S. A.

   Abbrev: Bartlett (1892)

   Title:

   The Bartletts

The Bartletts. Ancestral, genealogical, biographical, historical. (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), (Printed by New Haven, Conn., Press of the Stafford Printing Co. Thomas Edward Bartlett, The Bartletts. Ancestral, genealogical, biographical, historical. Comprising an account of the American progenitors of the Bartlett family, with special reference to the Descendants of John Bartlett, of Weymouth and Cumberland, 1892).
See also:
Descendants of John and Sarah Aldrich Bartlett

   Jackie Drybread

   Repository:

       Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society

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   Page: p. 16

   Abbrev: MA Soldiers and Sailors

   Title: Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution (Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Company, 1896 [republished on CD by Ancestry.com])

   Text:

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       Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society

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       Name: Patrick McDonald Personal Library

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   Page: p. 724

   Abbrev: Bartlett (1892)

   Title:

   The Bartletts

The Bartletts. Ancestral, genealogical, biographical, historical. (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), (Printed by New Haven, Conn., Press of the Stafford Printing Co. Thomas Edward Bartlett, The Bartletts. Ancestral, genealogical, biographical, historical. Comprising an account of the American progenitors of the Bartlett family, with special reference to the Descendants of John Bartlett, of Weymouth and Cumberland, 1892).
See also:
Descendants of John and Sarah Aldrich Bartlett

   Jackie Drybread

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       Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society

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   Page: p. 47

   Abbrev: Torrey's New England Marriages

   Title:

   New England Marriages Prior To 1700

Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior To 1700 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1985)

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       Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society

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   Abbrev: Bartlett (1892)

   Title:

   The Bartletts

The Bartletts. Ancestral, genealogical, biographical, historical. (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), (Printed by New Haven, Conn., Press of the Stafford Printing Co. Thomas Edward Bartlett, The Bartletts. Ancestral, genealogical, biographical, historical. Comprising an account of the American progenitors of the Bartlett family, with special reference to the Descendants of John Bartlett, of Weymouth and Cumberland, 1892).
See also:
Descendants of John and Sarah Aldrich Bartlett

   Jackie Drybread

   Repository:

       Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society

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   Page: p. 13 and p. 89

   Abbrev: Pioneers of MA (Pope)

   Title:

   Pioneers of Massachusetts

Charles Henry Pope, Pioneers of Massachusetts
1900 (Republished Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1991)
This descriptive list of pioneers of Massachusetts was taken from colonial, town, church and other contemporary documents. It lists over 5000 persons who settled the colony and were instrumental in its growth. Including settlers from as far back as the Mayflower, researchers will find birth, occupation, marriage and death information along with a list of known descendants. For those seeking ancestors from the colonies of Massachusetts and Plymouth, this can be a helpful source of information. The total number of ,'Pioneers" on record is about 6,000. Of these the occupations of only 1,725 were mentioned; 323 being called tillers of the soil, (including both wealthy landholders and humble plowmen,) 210 house and ship carpenters, 115 tailors, 103 merchants, 91 ministers, 81 shoemakerS, 75 sea-captains, 62 weavers, and so on. We have further some 471 cases in which the records specify the settlers.
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   Page: p. 13

   Abbrev: SAVAGE'S DICTIONARY

   Title:

   A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those who Came before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register

James Savage; compiled by O. P. Dexter, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those who Came before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register
(The best known and most frequently used genealogical dictionary.This monumental work gives the name of every settler who came to New England before 1692, regardless of his rank, station in life or fortune. Traces the descendants of each person, giving dates of marriage and death, dates of birth, marriage and death of his children, and the birth dates and names of his grandchildren, thus recording the beginning of the third generation in New England. Binding is 4 vols. 2,541 pp.) Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 65-18541
(Boston: 1860-1862
Reprinted with "Genealogical Notes and Errata," excerpted from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. XXVII, No. 2, April, 1873, pp. 135-139, And A Genealogical Cross Index of the Four Volumes of the Genealogical Dictionary of James Savage, by O. P. Dexter, 1884.
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore,

   1965,1969,1977,1981,1986, 1990)

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   Page: Vol. 1, p. 131

   Abbrev: Weymouth, MA History & Genealogy

   Title:

   The History of Weymouth, Massachusetts

George Walter Chamberlain, The History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, 4 vols. [republished as Genealogies of the Early Families of Weymouth, Massachusetts] (Boston, MA: Wright & Potter Company, 1923 [reprinted Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1984])

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