Individual Details
Benjamin BARTLETT
(Bef 6 Jun 1633 - 21 Aug 1691 - 28 Aug 1691)
Benjamin Bartlett was the son of Robert and Mary (Warren) Bartlett. He married, probably at Plymouth, Massachusetts before April 4, 1654 Susannah Jenney who died before August 18, 1655. He then married Sarah Brewster, the only daughter of Love Brewster and his wife, Sarah (Collier) Brewster. Following the death of his second wife, he married, Sissilla in 1678. By her he had three additional children: Ebenezer who married Hannah Bartlett; Sarah who married Robert Bartlett and Ichabod who married first, Elizabeth Waterman and second, Desire Arnold. Benjamin settled in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts where he was regarded as one of the wealthy men. At the time of his death, in 1691, he left property worth nearly 400 pounds.
Benjamin Bartlett was chosen constable in 1662, then an office of high trust and responsibility; was selectman almost continuously from 1666 until his death, being chairman of the board 1690-91; collector of excise 1664, and representative to the General Court, 1685.
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July 5, 1667:
"Att this Court, Benjamine Bartlett cmplained against his servant, named John Cooper, for refusing to serue him vnlesse his indenture could be produced, which was supposed by him to bee ployned and made away; the Court, vnderstanding by sufficient euidence that hee is yett to serue him three yeares, ordered him either to accept of such conditions as were agreed on betwixt his said master and him since this controversy arose, or to be forthwith publickly whipt and forced to returne to his said master; after this they renewed the conditions, and soe the mater for present is ended." (Plymouth Colony Records - Vol. 4, page 154)
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A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, BEFORE 1692 - Vol. 1 - Savage, James - 1860-62:
BARTLETT, BENJAMIN, Duxbury, s. of Robert of Plymouth, m. 1656, Sarah, d. of Love Brewster, had Benjamin, Samuel, Ichabod, Ebenezer, and Rebecca, beside Sarah, prob. all by that w. but he had in 1678 a sec. w. Cicely. He was rep. 1685, as in Baylies, IV. 19.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1629 | Plymouth, Plymouth Colony |  | ||
| Birth | Bef 6 Jun 1633 | Plymouth, Plymouth Colony | | ||
| Marriage | Bef 4 Apr 1654 | Plymouth, Plymouth Colony - Susannah JENNY | | ||
| Marriage | Bet 4 Apr 1654 and 8 Aug 1655 | Duxbury, Plymouth, British America - Sarah BREWSTER |  | | |
| Property | 10 Aug 1666 | Property exchange - Dartmouth, Bristol, Plymouth, British America | | | |
| Marriage | Bet 5 Mar 1667/68 and 21 Jan 1678/79 | Cecilia [3rd wife of Benjamin Bartlett] [UNKNOWN] | | | |
| Marriage | Bef 21 Jan 1678 | Duxbury, Plymouth, British America - Cecilia [3rd wife of Benjamin Bartlett] [UNKNOWN] | | ||
| Death | 21 Aug 1691 - 28 Aug 1691 | Duxbury, Plymouth, British America | | ||
| Residence (family) | Duxbury, Plymouth, British America - Cecilia [3rd wife of Benjamin Bartlett] [UNKNOWN] | |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah BREWSTER (1635 - 1667) |
| Child | Benjamin BARTLETT (1658 - ) |
| Child | Samuel BARTLETT (1662 - ) |
| Child | Rebecca BARTLETT (1664 - 1741) |
| Child | Ebenezer BARTLETT ( - 1697) |
| Child | Sarah BARTLETT ( - 1687) |
| Child | Ichabod BARTLETT (1670 - 1716) |
| Spouse | Cecilia [3rd wife of Benjamin Bartlett] [UNKNOWN] ( - 1691) |
| Spouse | Susannah JENNY (1634 - 1654) |
| Father | Robert BARTLETT (1604 - 1676) |
| Mother | Mary WARREN (1610 - 1683) |
| Sibling | Rebecca BARTLETT (1634 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary BARTLETT (1633 - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah BARTLETT (1636 - 1680) |
| Sibling | Joseph BARTLETT (1639 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth BARTLETT (1643 - ) |
| Sibling | Lydia BARTLETT (1648 - 1691) |
| Sibling | Mercy BARTLETT (1651 - ) |
Notes
Marriage
dates bracketed by his mention in will and codicil of his first mother-in-lawProperty
Quoted from source:On 24 March 1661[/2?] William Palmer of Accushenah, cooper, sold to Mr. John Barnes of Plymouth, yeoman, for £15 "all that his home lot lying and being at Accushenah aforesaid containing twenty-five acres of upland with all the house, housing and fences thereon with three acres of meadow as yet unlaid out," but not including right of commonage [PCLR 2:2:86]. On 10 August 1666 Barnes exchanged this land with Benjamin Bartlett of Plymouth, receiving in return an eleven acre parcel lying on the southside of Plymouth [PCLR 3:74].
Accushenah is the original name for Dartmouth.
Marriage
bracketed by mention of second wife in a court case and consent of this wife to a land saleEndnotes
1. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 115; digital page images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (http://www.americanancestors.org/ : viewed 3 February 2015; biographical description of Robert Bartlett.
2. "The Simon-Wallace Tree," database of a family tree, Ancestry.com, RootsWeb's World Connect Project (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=ssimonw&I11.x=0&I11.y=0: viewed 14 February 2015), entry for Benjamin Bartlett, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ssimonw&id=I324; citing Contact: sholom@aishdas.org.
3. Robert S. Wakefield, compiler, Family of Richard Warren, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, Vol 18, part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999), p 3.
4. Robert S. Wakefield, compiler, Family of Richard Warren, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, Vol 18, part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999), p 11.
5. Barbara Lambert Merrick, compiler, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster: Part 1, Generations 1 through 4, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, vol 24, part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014), p 181, biographical sketch of Sarah Brewster.
6. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1093; digital page images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (http://www.americanancestors.org/ : accessed 3 February 2015; biographical description of John Jenny.
7. "New England Marriages to 1700 [Torrey]," database index with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, AmericanAncestors (: accessed 2 August 2015), Bartlett, Benjamin & 1/wf Susanna [Jenney], p 99.
8. Robert S. Wakefield, compiler, Family of Richard Warren, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, Vol 18, part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999), p 3.
9. Barbara Lambert Merrick, compiler, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster: Part 1, Generations 1 through 4, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, vol 24, part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014), p 181, biographical sketch of Sarah Brewster.
10. "New England Marriages to 1700 [Torrey]," database index with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, AmericanAncestors (: accessed 2 August 2015), Bartlett, Benjamin & 2/wf Sarah [Brewster], p 99.
11. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 115; digital page images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (http://www.americanancestors.org/ : viewed 3 February 2015; biographical description of Robert Bartlett.
12. Robert S. Wakefield, compiler, Family of Richard Warren, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, Vol 18, part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999), p 11.
13. Barbara Lambert Merrick, compiler, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster: Part 1, Generations 1 through 4, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, vol 24, part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014), p 181, biographical sketch of Sarah Brewster.
14. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 99; digital page images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (http://www.americanancestors.org/ : viewed 3 February 2015; citing [PCLR 2:2:86] and [PCLR 3:74], Plymouth Colony Deeds.
15. Barbara Lambert Merrick, compiler, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster: Part 1, Generations 1 through 4, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, vol 24, part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014), p 182, biographical sketch of Sarah Brewster.
16. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 115; digital page images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (http://www.americanancestors.org/ : viewed 3 February 2015; biographical description of Robert Bartlett.
17. "New England Marriages to 1700 [Torrey]," database index with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, AmericanAncestors (: accessed 2 August 2015), Bartlett, Benjamin & 3/wf Cecilia ____ (aunt of Sarah Coock), p 99.
18. "The Simon-Wallace Tree," database of a family tree, Ancestry.com, RootsWeb's World Connect Project (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=ssimonw&I11.x=0&I11.y=0: viewed 14 February 2015), entry for Benjamin Bartlett, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ssimonw&id=I324; citing Contact: sholom@aishdas.org.
19. Robert S. Wakefield, compiler, Family of Richard Warren, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, Vol 18, part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999), p 3.
20. Robert S. Wakefield, compiler, Family of Richard Warren, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, Vol 18, part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999), p 11.
21. Barbara Lambert Merrick, compiler, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster: Part 1, Generations 1 through 4, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, vol 24, part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014), p 181, biographical sketch of Sarah Brewster.
22. "The Simon-Wallace Tree," database of a family tree, Ancestry.com, RootsWeb's World Connect Project (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=ssimonw&I11.x=0&I11.y=0: viewed 14 February 2015), entry for Benjamin Bartlett, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ssimonw&id=I324; citing Contact: sholom@aishdas.org.
23. Barbara Lambert Merrick, compiler, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster: Part 1, Generations 1 through 4, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620, vol 24, part 1 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014), p 182, biographical sketch of Sarah Brewster.