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State of Service: NH
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Author: Ed Lary
Joshua Bartlett (Bartlet) is recognized as a Patriot Ancestor for his Patriotic Service as a signer of the Association Test. His name is found on the list of persons signing this Declaration in Kingston, Rockingham County, NH on September 23, 1776.
Joshua Bartlett was born on March 29, 1736 to Joshua and Priscilla [Jacobs] Bartlett. There are conflicting reports on his birth location, but he was most likely born in MA. Joshua married Sarah Badger in Amesbury, MA on February 18, 1760. At the time of his marriage Joshua was already living in Kingston, NH.
Joshua and Sarah raised 9 children during their 61-year marriage. Four of the children were born in Kingston, NH; the other five in Unity, Cheshire County, NH where it appears the family settled during the latter years of their lives. The following sketch from the Unity Historical Society may explain why Joshua and Sarah Bartlett relocated from Kingston, NH to Unity, NH in the mid-1760’s. (Their son Edmund was their first born in Unity – in 1766).
“In 1764, Governor Benning Wentworth, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the province of New Hampshire for King George III, was petitioned by numerous families from Kingston, Hampstead and Amesbury for land that they could settle on and call their own. Through Governor Wentworth, King George III granted to these people 29,000 acres of land six miles square in the province formerly called Buckingham, but to now be incorporated under the name Unity, since this new land was unifying these people who had no land of their own. There were 39 original grantees.”
Joshua died in Unity on July 23, 1823; Sarah died there a few years earlier on March 6, 1821. Joshua is buried in the East Unity, NH Cemetery.
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