Deacon George BARTLET^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]}

Est 1627 - 1669  (~ 42 years)

• Name	Deacon George BARTLET
  Born	Est 1627	, , , England
  Gender	Male
  Died	2 Aug 1669	Guilford Twp., New Haven, CT, USA
  Buried	3 Aug 1669	Guilford Twp., New Haven, CT, USA
  Person ID	I4385	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	Unknown BARTLETT
  Family ID	F7910	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary CRUTTENDON,   b. Bef 29 Apr 1632, Hawkhurst, Kent, ENG ,   d. 11 Sep 1669, Guilford Twp., New Haven, CT, USA  (Age ~ 37 years)
  Married	14 Sep 1650	Guilford Twp., New Haven, CT, USA   [1]
  Children	1. Elizabeth BARTLET,   b. 16 Mar 1653, Guilford Twp., New Haven, CT, USA ,   d. 4 Oct 1742, Guilford Twp., New Haven, CT, USA  (Age 89 years)   2. Mary BARTLET,   b. 1 Feb 1655, Guilford (Now Madison), CT ,   d. Nov 1724, , , Connecticut, USA  (Age 69 years)   3. John BARTLET,   b. 9 Nov 1656, Guilford Twp., New Haven, CT, USA ,   d. 16 Aug 1669, Guilford Twp., New Haven, CT, USA  (Age 12 years)   4. Hannah BARTLET,   b. 5 Nov 1658, Guilford Twp., New Haven, CT, USA ,   d. Bolton, , CT   5. Deborah BARTLET,   b. 1660,   d. 4 Dec 1692, Newark, Essex, NJ, USA  (Age 32 years)   6. Daniel BARTLET,   b. 14 Dec 1665, Guilford Twp., New Haven, CT, USA ,   d. 14 Nov 1747, Guilford Twp., New Haven, CT, USA  (Age 81 years)   7. Abraham BARTLET,   b. 19 Jan 1668, Guilford Twp., New Haven, CT, USA ,   d. 20 Feb 1731, Guilford Twp., New Haven, CT, USA  (Age 63 years)
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F4488	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  George Bartlett was one of the earliest settlers of Guilford. He was the brother of John Bartlett of Windsor, CT according to "Blushing Glory, Hide Pultova's Day". George and a Daniel Bartlet were early settlers of Guildford, making it highly likely that Daniel was a father or brother of George's. According to Gary Alan Bartlett, he immigrated about 1639, probably underage, as 21 year olds and above signed their names to a Plantation Covenant on which he was not listed. He was a part of Rev. Whitfield's settlement (primarily from county Kent, Sussex and Surrey, England) who sought religious freedom in an isolated setting. By 1640, England was embroiled in civil war that virtually cut off further immigration for a period of several years. (F-579) Multiple sources give Robert and Mary Warren Bartlett who lived in Plymouth, MA as his parents. This is unlikely for the following reasons. 1) Robert married in 1634 to Mary Warren, a descendant of the Mayflower. Even if our George is a descendant of Robert Bartlett, he is not a descendant of Mary Warren (and the Mayflower lineage) as his birth estimated from several of his life's events suggest he was born before 1630. 2) George is not listed as their child in Plymouth, MA records. (AND) 3) Robert and Mary Warren Bartlett did not have a son named John or Daniel - likely brothers of George. At this point in time, the parentage of George is not known. From the naming patterns of his children, my guess would be that his father was John Bartlett and his mother's name was Mary or Hannah... as these names were the oldest children's names that were not accounted for my Mary Bartlett's side of the family. George became a prominent citizen and had a home in the center of town on the southwest corner of the town green. His home would have been near what was the Park Hotel in Guilford, CT when an 1897 history of Menunkatuck was written. In 1986, the Monroe Building housing Douden's Drug Store occupied it's space. He is first listed in Guilford, CT records on the 14 of August 1645 when he is witnessed the court proceedings of the first court record of the "Guilford Plantation". His first few years in Guilford, he likely spent under the care of another family. It was known that there were several young men under the age of 21 brought with the original settlement in the care of other families. George is listed in the 1650 list of Planters for Guilford, CT. It indicates that he was accepted as a freeman on May 22, 1648. According to Gary Alan Bartlett, the Freeman status indicated that he had completed "rigorous requirements for church membership, including public testimony relating the particulars of ones conversion experience to fundamentalist Christian belief, and knowledge of Scripture and that he had achieved the age of at least 21. (F-509, 526) George was listed with the rank of Sergeant when New Haven colony was required to send 133 men on an expedition against the Dutch in 1654. Seventeen of these were from Guilford. By July 6, 1665 George was elected Lieutenant of the Guard. (F-579) In 1661, William Leete was chosen as chief magistrate and George Bartlet was chosen, probably as an assistant, in place of Thomas Jordan. From 1662 to 1665, he was the second person to hold the office as town clerk. He was the second Deacon to be elected in the First Church of Guilford, this probably occurring in June of 1665. He was elected as a member of the general assembly for New Haven for the whole year of 1663 and for the summer session of 1664. In 1665, he was elected to represent Guilford at the General Assembly of CT. During his tenure in this position from 1663 to 1665, he was also appointed "Deputy of the court with regards to [The Articles of Confederation for the Jurisdiction of New Haven]" which was their communities fundament agreement. He was also lieutenant of the trainband (local militia). He lived in Branford, Connecticut at one point in his life. A man of education and a prominent early Guilford resident, he died back in Guilford in Aug. of 1669. (F-497, 498, 509)

  
  

• Sources

  [S1116] American Marriage Records before 1699 as transcribed at www.ancestry.com. [S679] Sheryl Doud Gustafson to Linda Coate E-mail letter dated July 4, 1997 at sgustaf@epix.net in Linda Coate files (F-492, 510). [S2793] United Ancestries Linked Pedigrees CD 100 (Automated Archives). [S567] Alvan Talcott, Compiler, Families of Early Guilford, Connecticut (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1984). [S1454] Hon. Ralph Dunning Smyth, A History of the Plantation of Menunkatuck and of the Original Towns of Guilfor and Madison (Baltimore, MD: Published by Author, 1897). [S1220] Tracy Tomaselli to Linda Coate E-mail letter with well sourced documentation dated Aug 1998 at TCT222@aol.com (F-579). [S1458] Steiner, Bernard Christian, A History of the Plantation of Menunkatuck and of the Original Town of Guilford, Connecticut (Baltimore, Published by the author, c1897). [S1463] Bartlett, Gary, Origin of the Bartlett Name and Precursors (c2000).