Bartlett

1 Mindwell Bartlett: Born 1681, Northampton, Hampshire, MA; Died 26 June 1741, Northampton, Northampton, MA; Married 7 March 1708, Northampton, Hampshire, MA; Waitstill Strong: Born 1677, Northampton, Hampshire, MA; Died 13 November 1762, Northampton, Hampshire, MA. (See Strong #2)

2. Samuel Bartlett: Born 1640, probably in Hartford; Died 21 February 1712, Northampton, MA; Married 1676, Northampton, MA; Sarah Baldwin: Born 6 November 1653, Milford, New Haven, CT; Died 17 January 1717, Northampton, MA; (See Baldwin) Samuel married his first wife in 1672. She was Mary, daughter of James Bridgeman. She died in 1674, in so unnatural a manner that her father and her husband and others ascribed it to Witchcraft. They accused Mary, the widow of Joseph Parsons, of this capital offense. She was arrested and sent for trial to Boston, where in May 1675, after a long imprisonment, she was acquitted of these charges.

3. Robert Bartlett: Born 27 May 1603, Puddletown, Dorset, England; Died 5 November 1688, Manomet, South Plymouth, MA; Married 1628, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; Mary Warren: Born about 1616, Northampton, Hampshire, MA; Died 3 Jul 1676 Northampton, Hampshire, MA. Robert and Mary were fellow passengers on the Ann. It is quite possible that they met and fell in love on the journey to America. They were married a few years after arriving in Plymouth colony. (See Richard Warren for a discussion of the Ann). Though Robert held such positions as grandjuror and highway surveyor, he did not serve ihn the higher positions of government. On 1 May 1660 Robert was convicted by the Court of Assistants for speaking contempuously about the ordinance of singing psalms, and he hoped it would be a warning to him, and he promised to acknowledge his fault to those he had earlier spoken to.

At this point I find the line becoming suspect and in need of further research as I can find no concrete reference to Mary as the daughter of Richard Warren.

Mary's Parents--

• I. Richard Warren Died 1628. Married Elizabeth (Warren): Born before 1583 in England; Died 2 October 1673, Plymouth, MA. Richard Warren came over on the Mayflower in 1620. About May of 1623, word reached the Plymouth colony that 60 new colonists and a ton of goods were on their way on a ship called the Ann. Many people including Richard hoped that their loved ones would be arriving on this ship. Unfortunately the ship which had been scheduled to depart England in April 1623 did not arrive at it s scheduled time. The colonists were worried about their loved ones and the goods on the ship which were necessary to their survival. They began to despair that the ship had been lost. In the last weeks of June a supply ship reached the colony and it told of meeting a ship bound for the colony on the open seas. This was presumably the Ann. The crew of the supply ship told that when they had last seen her she was safe but the two ships had become separated in a violent storm. This news did little to allay the fears of the colonists. For even if she had lost her way, the Ann should have reached Plymouth by now. Some time in the latter half of the month of July an English ship was sighted approaching the bay, and as always there was a general rush of the colonists for the shore. The colonists hoped to find their families or at least letters from home on each ship that arrived. The also desired the good English bread, beer and beef that the ship would surely bring--even if the bread was hard tack and the beef was dried and salted. As the ship drew near it became clear that this was the missing Ann. She had finally arrived. The colonists who stood on the shore were described by Governor Bradford as a ragged lot, "some litle beter than halfe naked." As the passengers came ashore they saw the hardships that had befallen the early pilgrims in the first hard years in the new world. Many of the passengers wept at what they saw, others wished themselves in England again. But the joy of reunion was enough to sustain most. Many of the colonists, including Elder Brewster wept openly at the sight of their families arriving in the colony and all rejoiced in the bounty that the Ann brought with her. Many of the colonists received parcels from home but the man who was most greatly rewarded by the holds of the ship was Richard Warren who received the largest parcel of all-- for the Ann brought not just his wife but his five daughters as well. Richard Warren is unique among the Mayflower pilgrims in that very little is actually known about him. William Bradford in his Decreasings and Increasings gives him the honorific title of "Mr." and does not mention him at all in the text of his history. Mourt's Relation mentions him as one of a party of ten lead by Winslow on an early expedition to Cape Cod. Here we learn that Richard and two others of this group were from London. In 1628 Nathaniel Morton wrote "This Year died Mrs. Richard Warren, who . . . was an useful Instument and during his life bare a deep share in ther Difficulties and Troubles of the first setlement of the Plantation." When Richard died Elizabeth continued to live as a widow, not chosing to remarry as was the custom. She had a full and productive life as a member of the Plymouth Colony. When Elizabeth died, aged over ninety, she was described as "having lived a godly life, came to her grave as a shoke of corn fully ripe."

Robert's Parents--

4. Robert Bartlett: Born 2 December 1579, Puddletown, Dorset, England; Died England; Married 6 October 1589, Puddletown, Dorset, England; Alice Barker: Born 1567, England; Died England.

5. Robert Bartlett: Born 1541, of Puddletown, Dorset, England; Died shortly after 1579, Puddletown, England; Married 2 Jul 1542 Puddleton, Dorset, England; Alice Prout: Born 1545; Died March 1592, Puddleton, Dorset, England.