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 350 BARTLETT BARTOL logical society. In 1850 he was appointed by President Taylor commissioner to fix the boun- dary line between the United States and Mex- ico under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. He remained in this service till Jan. 7, 1853, making extensive surveys and explorations, with elaborate scientific observations ; but, for want of the necessary appropriations, the boundary line was not completed by him. In 1854 he published a "Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua." He had previously published a small work on "The Progress of Ethnology" (1847), and a "Dictionary of Americanisms" (1850), since revised and enlarged (1859). He became sec- retary of state of Rhode Island, May 1, 1855, and has held that office ever since. He has edited and published the " Records of the Col- ony of Rhode Island and Providence Planta- tions " (10 vols., 1856-'65), and written " Bib- liography of Rhode Island " (1864), " Index to the Acts and Resolves of the General Assembly of Rhode Island from 1758 to 1862" (1863), "Literature of the Rebellion" (1866), "Me- moirs of Rhode Island Officers in the War of the Rebellion " (1867), " Primeval Man"' (1868). BARTLETT, Joseph, an American wit, poet, and adventurer, born in Plymouth, Mass., about 1763, died in Boston, Oct. 27, 1827. He graduated at Harvard college in 1782, and began the study of law at Salem, but soon gave it up for a voyage to England. In London, being at the representation of one of Gen. Burgoyne's plays in ridicule of his countrymen, he stood up in the pit and cried ont, " Hurrah I Great Britain beaten by barbers, tailors, and tinkers ! " with prodigious effect. It was taken in good part, and got him the acquaintance of many of the " bloods " of the day. He gam- bled, got into prison, wrote a play for his re- lease, and went upon the stage himself. From an actor he became a merchant, and, having sailed for America with a large supply of goods on credit, was shipwrecked on Cape Cod. For a while he figured as captain of volunteers in Shays's war, then opened an office in Woburn, painting it black, and calling it the "Coffin," to attract notoriety. He next removed to Cam- bridge, and in 1799 delivered a poem on phys- iognomy before the Phi Beta Kappa society, satirical and clever, and said to touch upon the traits of individuals at the time. To the edi- tion of this poem published in 1823 were ap- pended a number of " Aphorisms on Men, Principles, and Things," the results of his various experience. The same year he deliver- ed a Fourth of July oration at Boston, and afterward recited a poem entitled " The New Vicar of Bray," which obtained considerable celebrity. He attempted the practice of law and of politics in Maine, was elected to the state legislature, and nearly secured an election to congress. He then practised law at Ports- mouth, N. IL, and closed his improvident life, a burden to his friends, at Boston. BARTLETT, .Insiali, M. D., an American pa- triot and statesman, born at Amesburv, Mass., in November, 1729, died May 19, 1795. He commenced the practice of medicine in 1750 at Kingston, and established a reputation during the prevalence of the angina maligna in 1754 by treatment with Peruvian bark, in opposition to the usage of other physicians. He received several appointments from the royal governor, John Wentworth, but was deprived of them in 1775 for being a zealous whig. In 1774 he was appointed to the command of a regiment of militia. Being chosen delegate to the con- tinental congress, he was the first who voted for, and the first after the president who signed the Declaration of Independence. He accom- panied Stark in 1777 to Bennington. In 1779 he was appointed chief justice of the common pleas, in 1784 justice of the supreme court, and in 1788 chief justice. He was an active mem- ber of the convention called to adopt the federal constitution in 1788. In 1790 he was president of New Hampshire, and in 1793 was chosen the first governor under the new state constitution. BARTLETT, William, one of the founders of the theological seminary at Andover, Mass., born at Newburyport, Jan. 81, 1748, died there, Feb. 8, 1841. He made a large fortune in trade, and besides liberal contributions in aid of the temperance reform, foreign missions, and the education of young men for the ministry, he gave $30,000 toward the foundation of the Andover theological seminary, endowed a pro- fessorship, and built a house for the incumbent. BARTLETT, William Henry, an English artist and author, born in London, March 26, 1809, died at sea in September, 1854. He was appren- ticed to John Britton the antiquary, and em- ployed by him as a draughtsman. He travelled extensively at home and abroad, repeatedly vis- iting the East and the American continent, and engraved nearly 1,000 plates from his drawings, with descriptions written by himself, by his fellow traveller William Beattie, and by other hands. The text of his " Beauties of the Bos- phorus" (London, 1840) was furnished by Miss Pardoe, and that of "American Scenery" (2 vols., 1840) and of "Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland " (2 vols., 1842) by N. P. Willis. His works on Switzerland, Egypt, and the Holy Land were the most popular, a 4th vol. of his "Footsteps of our Lord and his Apostles" ap- pearing in 1856. A brief memoir of his lii'e, by Beattie, was published in London in 1855. BARTOL, Cyrns Angnstns, an American author and Congregational clergyman, born at Free- port, Me., April 30, 1813. He graduated at Bowdoin college in 1832, completed his theo- logical education at the Cambridge divinity school in 1835, and was settled as colleague pastor with the Rev. Charles Lowell, D. D., of the West church in Boston, March 1, 1837. His principal writings are : " Discourses on the Christian Spirit and Life " (1850); "Discourses on the Christian Body and Form" (1854); " Pictures of Europe " (1855), a work combining