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 BARTLETT,

BARTLETT

Rirtlett & Welford. hikI while residing in New York acted as corresponding secretary of the New York liistorical society, and also hecanie a nieni- lier of the American ethnograpliical society. From IS'tO to 1>'.}3 lie acted on the commission for determining the boundary between Mexico and the U.S.. and from ISo.j to 1872 was secretary of state for Rhode Island. He was for several years librari.in of the John Carter Brown library and collected an exhaustive catalogue which was pub- lishe»l in four volumes. His publications are : "The Progress of Ethnology" (1847) ; "A Dic- tionary of Americanisms" (1850, of which two two later editions were issued in 1859 and 1877) ; •' Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations" (ten volumes 18r>G-'6r)) ; '* Bibliography of Rhode Island " (1864) ; '• Index to the Acts, etc.. of the General Assembly of Rhode Island. 1758-186'2" (1863) : '• Literature of the Rebelliim" (1866); '^ ]Memoirs of Rliode Island Officers in the War of the Rebellion " (1867); "Primeval Man" (1868); "History of the Wanton Family of Newport. R. I."' (1878), and " Genealogy of the Russell Family" (1879). He died May 28. 1«86.

BARTLETT, John Russell, naval officer, was born ill Pi-ovideiice, R.I., Sept. 26. 1843; son of John Russell Bartlett. author. He entered the naval academy in 18.'39, and in 1862, on board the sloop Mississijipi. was present at the engage- ments at Forts Jackson and St. Philip, at the cap- ture of New Orleans and the attack on Vicks- burg. He was transferred to the Susquehanna, having in the meantime been promoted ensign and then lieutenant. He assisted at both attacks on Fort Fisher, liis gallantry at the latter en- gagement receiving commendatory mention in the rejMjrts both of Commodore Godon and of Lieutenant-Commander Blake. Promotion as lieutenant-commander followed, and he spent the two succeeding years, 1867 to 1869, at the naval academy. He was commissioned com- mander in 1877, and assigned to duty as hydrograj)lier to the bureau of navigation at Washiii-t.,ii. D.C.

BARTLETT, Joseph Jackson, soldier, was born in Binghamton, N.Y., Nov. 4, 1834. He was educated at an academy, studied law at Utica. was admitte lirevetted major-general .\iig. 1, 1864, and

was present at the surrender of Lee at Appo- mattox. He was mustered out Jan. 15, 1866, was appointed United States minister to Sweden and Norway by President Johnson, serving, 1867- '69, and was deputy commissioner of pensions, 1885-'89. He died in Baltimore, Md.. Jan. 14, 1893. BARTLETT, Josiah, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born at Amesbury, Mass., Nov. 21, 1729. He received an academic educa- tion and a thorough course in medicine, and in 1750 began practice in Kingston, N.H. His methods of medical treatment were original, and largely acquired while doctoring himself through a protracted fever. His experience being in direct opposition to the usages of the profession, he de- pai'ted from the " old school," and his success won him a large practice. He introduced Peruvian bark into use in 1754. In 1765 lie became a mem- ber of the colonial legislature of New Hampshire and held the office bj' annual re-election until the revolution. While in the legislature he op- posed the royalists, and the governor made an unsuccessful attempt to win him over to his .sup- port by appointing him a magistrate and com- missioned him a lieutenant-colonel of militia. His zeal in the cause of the colonies was not abated, however, and in 1775 he was deposed from both offices. He was a member of the com- mittee of safety which conducted the affairs of government after the departure of Governor Weutworth from the colony in 1775, and he was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1775 and 1776, being the first to cast a vote for the Declaration of Independence and the second to sign it. He resigned as delegate to Congress shortly after he was appointed general naval agent, and later accompanied General Stark to Bennington, having been charged with the medi- cal supplies of the New Hampshire troops. In 1778-'79 he was again a delegate to Congress, and in November, 1779, resigned his seat to accept the office of chief ju.stice of the court of com- mon pleas of New Hampshire. He became muster-master in 1780 ; justice of the superior court of the state in 1782 ; chief justice in 1788, and in the latter year served as a delegate to the convention called to ratify the federal constitu- tion. Though declining an election to the first United States Congress as a senator in 1789 on the plea of age, he accepted the pre.sidency of the state when it was offered him by the legislature in 1790. and after serving for three years, being re-elected bj' popular vote each year, he became in 1793 the first governor of the state under its new constitution. He received the honorary degree of A.M. and M.D. from Dartmouth col- lege, and was for many years the president of the New Hampsliire medical society. He died at Kingston, N.H., May 19, 1795.