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History of the Society of Descendants 
 
 of Robert Bartlet of 
 
 Plymouth, Massachusetts. 
 
 Incorporated December 11, 1909 
 
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 Compiled, and some portions written by 
 
 Makian Longfellow, Historian 
 
 of the Society 
 
 Press of 
 LORING-AXTELL COMPANY 
 
 Springfield, Mass. 
 

 Lucius Warren Bartlett, President 
 
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FOREWORD 
 
 N the history of a family, it is necessary to 
 deal with statistics; statistics are dry as 
 dust, as a general thing, yet they incorporate 
 events that have their being in history. 
 
 Your Historian has endeavored to place 
 before you such matter only as seems essen- 
 tial to a full knowledge of the line from which 
 you have descent, and, at the same time to bring you in touch 
 with all that the Society has done and hopes to accomplish 
 which will be of interest and benefit to all in whose veins 
 flows the blood of Robert and Mary Bartlet, whether affili- 
 ated with this Society or not. 
 
 Your Historian furthermore hopes that this little pamph- 
 let may prove of some interest to that vast army of persons 
 seeking to establish certain family data along their own lines, 
 and with this desire, personal and impersonal, she submits 
 the following report. 
 
 Marian Longfellow, 
 
 Historian, Society Descendants of Robert 
 Bartlet, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, 
 Inc. 
 
HISTORY 
 
 ISTORY is a stern mistress; she exacts the 
 best; she demands the truth and nothing 
 but the truth. When false entries are made 
 upon her scroll, either by intention or 
 through lack of that qualification which 
 forever stamps the real historian, such 
 entries are fortunately in the long run 
 doomed to fall from her record. 
 In no way is history more sure of perpetuation than in 
 careful genealogy. Therefore, this country owes a debt of 
 gratitude to the genealogist, and should encourage in every 
 possible way the formation of genealogical societies. Many 
 are the sins of the average genealogist; many the crimes 
 committed against truth by those whose work is careless 
 and inadequate, through omission as well as commission; 
 but the greatest of these is the sin of inaccuracy. The active 
 evil of incorrect statements far outstrips the passive evil of 
 omission of facts. 
 
 If I were to give advice to the aspirant for work in genea- 
 logical fields I should urge Festina lente (make haste slowly), 
 for nothing can compensate for an inaccurate entry ! Better, 
 a thousand times, leave the page blank, whereon at some 
 future day the trained genealogist may inscribe the truth, 
 than place an error upon its virgin page, an error almost 
 certain to be perpetuated and to lead the searcher after truth 
 astray. 
 
 History keeps alive the memory of those whose virtues 
 it inscribes; the course of the nation which is " the survival 
 of the fittest," and holds it up for admiration and emulation. 
 Likewise it stamps for all time that nation which has gone 
 down in shame, like a star lost from the firmament, although 
 the individual offender is in many cases forgotten. We deal 
 in this report with the lives of our ancestors Robert Bartlet 
 and Mary Warren his wife; their forbears and their posterity. 
 The name of Bartelot or Barttelot, is of such antiquity, 
 historians say, that it is shrouded in the mists of time. 
 
 Robert Bartlet of Massachusetts came of a long and 
 honorable line. 
 
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The first of the family was Adam Barttelot, an esquire 
 in the retinue of Brian, a knight, and they came into Eng- 
 land with William the Conqueror, and fought at Hastings. 
 Both were granted lands. In the fifteenth century, a castle 
 appears as the crest of the coat-of-arms which was granted by 
 Edward the Black Prince to John Barttelot, for taking the 
 castle of Fontenoy, in France. In the sixteenth century, a 
 swan was added, and granted by the Garter King of Arms. 
 Since that time, the crest is double, a castle and a swan. 
 
 The original coat-of-arms of the family was three open, 
 left-hand, falconer's gloves, with golden tassels about the 
 wrist. The coat-of-arms now in use is very elaborate, rep- 
 resenting the quarterings, different coats-of-arms of families 
 who have intermarried with the Barttelots. 
 
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 ARTLETT COAT-OF-ARMS 
 
 Original. — Shield sable or black with three falconer's sinister gloves 
 pendent, argent or white, bands tasselled gold or yellow — arranged tri- 
 angularly, two at top, one at bottom. 
 
 Crests. — A swan, argent or white, couched with her wings expanded 
 in dorso; a castle with three turrets, sable. 
 
 Motto. — MATURE — In good time. 
 
 In the fifteenth century a castle appears as the crest of the coat-of- 
 arms which was granted by Edward the Black Prince to John Bartelot 
 for taking the Castle of Fontenoy in France. 
 
 In the sixteenth century a swan was added and granted by the Garter 
 King of Arms. 
 
 Since that time the crest is double, a castle and swan. 
 
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Previous to 1700 there were at least twenty-three emi- 
 grants of the name of Bartlet. Robert, the ancestor with 
 whom we are concerned, was the first, and came to Plym- 
 outh in 1623, in the good ship Ann. He died in 1676, 
 aged seventy-three. His descendants are numerous. Rich- 
 ard came to Newbury previous to 1635 and died in 1647, 
 aged about seventy-two. John went to Newport, R. I., 
 and became a freeman in 1638. 
 
 As a family the Bartletts were noted as thrifty, prudent, 
 and desirable citizens, w^e are told. One hundred and thirty 
 are on the rolls of American colleges; they have been con- 
 spicuous in law, divinity, and medicine, the army, and the 
 navy. The army claims eighty-six as commissioned officers 
 during the Civil War. 
 
 Robert Bartlet's forbears made history; his descendants 
 cherish his memory and strive to emulate his virtues. He 
 married, in due time, Mary, daughter of Richard Warren, 
 himself a descendant of a long and honorable line. Richard 
 Warren had royal blood in his veins; his own wife was so 
 pure, so high-minded, so noble, that the strain of royalty held 
 a second place. Thus from Robert Bartlet and Mary War- 
 ren came a line which the Society of the Descendants of Rob- 
 ert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass. is striving by every means in 
 its power to honor, to emulate, and to publish to the world. 
 
 In the report of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Anniver- 
 sary of the Second Congregational Church, on November 9, 
 1896, we learn that " it was at Manomet Ponds, Manomet, 
 or South Plymouth, that the first white settlement previous 
 to 1639 was established. This infant settlement was a part 
 of the Plymouth Rock settlement, for some ninety years, 
 and its religious affiliations were still there, but in 1731 it 
 became a separate district, under the name of the Second 
 Precinct, although not so incorporated actually until 1810. 
 Joseph Bartlet, son of Robert, was its first clerk. The name 
 of Bartlet figures in all the affairs of this settlement, eleven 
 of that name holding the office of moderator. 
 
 " When the Pilgrims settled in Plymouth they believed 
 that the sea extended inland just beyond the pine hills. 
 They discovered their mistake and established the settlement 
 of Manomet Ponds." 
 
 It is at the foot of these pine hills on the Plymouth side 
 that the Boulder erected by the Society is situated. The 
 old road to Manomet ran from the old Warren estate along 
 the wall which now lies south of the site of the Boulder. 
 Robert Bartlet resided here; he owmed land here, which his 
 children inherited. 
 
This Society had its inception in 1908. I quote the 
 statement of Lucius Warren Bartlett, its first and, so far, 
 only President. His address before the American Society of 
 Colonial Families, on the fourth of January, nineteen hundred 
 and twelve, is as follows: 
 
 The Origin and Progress of the Society of the De- 
 scendants of Robert Bartlet, of Plymouth, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 To the Officers and Members of the American Society of Colo- 
 nial Families, 
 
 Greeting: 
 
 Previous to 1905 I knew nothing of the Bartlet ancestry 
 back of my great-grandfather, Edward 5, who removed from 
 Stoughton to Cummington, Mass., in 1795. Milly, his 
 seventh child, married Stephen Tower, of Cummington, and 
 in their family Bible was this record: 
 
 " Benjamin Bartlet died April 23, 1776, age 77. 
 Hannah Bartlet died Dec. 17, 1799, age 86." 
 
 In 1905, Mercer V. Tilson, who compiled the Tilson Gene- 
 alogy, recently published, sent me a circular, as my paternal 
 grandmother was a Tilson. Correspondence with Mr. 
 Tilson, using the Bible record as a basis, established my line 
 back to Robert Bartlet, and in the spring of 1908 I requested 
 Mr. Tilson to engage a room in Brockton where the few inter- 
 ested in the work for the previous three years could meet and 
 dine together. It was suggested the call include any of the 
 descendants of Robert Bartlet. The meeting was held 
 August 13, 1908, the attendance being nearly forty, and an 
 organization was effected by choosing officers. 
 
 The second meeting and reunion was held at Manomet; 
 the third and fourth in the Methodist Church at Plymouth. 
 It is proposed to hold the fifth at Mt. Tom, Holyoke. 
 
 The society was incorporated for the purpose of securing 
 a grant of land upon which the home of Robert and Mary 
 (Warren) Bartlet was situated, and in 1910 a Memorial was 
 placed on the site, being a granite Boulder with a bronze 
 tablet thereon. 
 
 At the last reunion the by-laws were amended so that hus- 
 bands and wives of descendants and other acceptable per- 
 sons may, upon payment of dues, become Associate members, 
 entitled to all privileges except voting and holding office. 
 
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We have on our present mailing list over six hundred 
 descendants. 
 
 Respectfully yours, 
 
 Lucius YVarrex Bartlett, President. 
 Hartford, Conn., January 4, 1912. 
 
 After mature consideration, Mr. Lucius Warren Bartlett 
 issued the following call to all descendants of Benjamin 
 Bartlet (4) the great-grandson of Robert Bartlet and Mary 
 Warren, his wife: 
 
 GENEALOGICAL — Bartlett 
 
 A meeting of the descendants of Benjamin Bartlet (4), 
 who settled in Stoughton, Mass., about 1750, will be held 
 at the Young Men's Christian Association, Main and 
 West Elm Streets, Brockton, Mass., on Thursday, August 
 13, 1908, at 10 a. m. Those who attend are requested to 
 provide themselves with a basket lunch, to be eaten on the. 
 old Bartlet farm, weather permitting. If stormy, at the 
 Hall. Electric cars pass the Hall, also within a few rods of 
 the farm. 
 
 Any of the descendants of Robert Bartlet (1) of Plymouth 
 are cordially invited, as one object of the gathering will be 
 to plan for an annual reunion of the descendants of Rob- 
 ert (1), who came in the Ann, 1623, place and date to be 
 acted on at this meeting. Correspondence solicited. Lucius 
 W. Bartlett, 33 Russ Street, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett (8), Ephraim T. (7), Ephraim 
 (6), Edward (5), Benjamin (4), Benjamin (3), Joseph (2), 
 Robert (1). 
 
 Hartford, Conn., July 10. 1908. 
 
 The Brockton Times had the following account of the meet- 
 ing of the Society: 
 
 ' The Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet (1), 
 of Plymouth, and of Benjamin Bartlet (4), who settled in 
 Stoughton about 1750, was organized at the local Y. M. C. A. 
 today. 
 
 " Much interest in the formation of this new society 
 centers in Benjamin. The original homes of three members 
 of the family who lived here between 1750 and 1765 have 
 long since been destroyed, but the old cellars still remain to 
 testify to this fact. The farm is located one-half mile over 
 the line from Brockton between Stoughton and Canton. 
 
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' The idea of this reunion originated with Lucius W. 
 Bartlett of Hartford, Conn., a direct descendant of Benja- 
 min Bartlet of Stoughton." 
 
 Mr. Lucius W. Bartlett, when accepting the office of 
 president, read the following most interesting paper, that he 
 had prepared, about the Bartletts: 
 
 THE BARTLETT NAME 
 
 I quote from a book entitled " The Bartletts, Ancestral, 
 Genealogical, Biographical, Historical," with special refer- 
 ence to the descendants of John Bartlett of Weymouth and 
 Cumberland by Thomas Edward Bartlett, now deceased, of 
 whom I would state he was strongly antiquarian in his tastes, 
 was a corresponding member of the Worcester Society of 
 Antiquity and spent a large amount of time and money in the 
 compiling of his book. 
 
 " Of names distinguished in the colonial town and state an- 
 nals of our American Union none is of more uniformly honor- 
 able record than that of Bartlett. The name frequently 
 appears in connection with momentous events of New Eng- 
 land's early days, the actors of which will be remembered 
 for the greatness of their deeds, the strength of their patriot- 
 ism, and for the tenacity of their adherence to principle. 
 Some who have borne the name while not perhaps eminent 
 for the splendor of their public career are properly entitled 
 to grateful remembrance for their exemplary conduct and 
 successful endeavor in good citizenship and as friends of their 
 fellow men. 
 
 44 The Bartletts, like some of the other early settlers who 
 were landed proprietors and owners of estates, were thrifty, 
 forehanded, peacefully inclined persons, who benefit the 
 community of which they are members. Most of them were 
 fairly educated and it is this love of learning and respect for 
 good order which is significant of a common ancestry. More 
 than one hundred and thirty persons of the name have been 
 graduates of American colleges." 
 
 The three professions, — Law, Medicine, and Divinity, 
 — have abundantly demonstrated the fact that the Bartletts 
 have been influential in society as jurists, judges, statesmen, 
 physicians, teachers, and ministers of religion. As generals 
 and officers high in command in the army and navy they have 
 been distinguished for courage and bravery. The Official 
 Register of volunteer force of the United States Army, 1861— 
 65 contains the names of eighty-six Bartletts who were com- 
 missioned officers in the army during the War of the Rebel- 
 lion. On page 88 of his book, he says: "The following list 
 
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of Bartletts who had arrived in this country previous to 
 1700 all of which are presumed to have emigrated from Eng- 
 land has been obtained from original statistics and nearly all 
 of the twenty-three Bartletts enumerated in the list are known 
 to have descendants." 
 
 That these immigrants so nearly contemporaneous in 
 their arrival in this country were connected by consanguinity 
 cannot be doubted, although to this time no effective effort 
 has been made to place them on record in their precise rela- 
 tionship to each other owing to the magnitude of the work of 
 examining every discernible record touching the history of 
 each. 
 
 It is generally believed that all persons in this country 
 named Bartlett are without doubt of Norman ancestry. 
 There is a large estate at Stopham, Sussex, England, consist- 
 ing of some thousands of acres, which has been in possession 
 of the Bartletts for hundreds of years. The first of the 
 family was Adam Bartelot (as the name was spelled in early 
 times), an esquire in the retinue of Bryan a knight and they 
 came into England with William the Conqueror and fought 
 at Hastings. Both were granted lands. 
 
 Levi Bartlett of Warner, N. H., now deceased, author of 
 14 Sketches of the Bartlett Family," quotes from a letter re- 
 ceived by him from Col. Walter B. Bartlett the present rep- 
 resentative of the family as follows: " I have always supposed 
 that my American relatives must have descended from 
 Edmund Barttelot (11) of Ernly in Sussex. I may here men- 
 tion that upon the record of the pedigree of the family that 
 a Richard, John, and Thomas Barttelot who lived here were 
 born 1580-1590 and there their record ends, they having gone 
 and very likely to America." 
 
 This is probably the foundation for the statement made 
 by some writers of the three Bartlet brothers, Richard, John, 
 and Thomas that came to America in 1634-5, the two former 
 settling at Newbury and the latter at Watertown. 
 
 I am especially interested in this meeting today and in the 
 colonial history of the two colonies, Plymouth and Massachu- 
 setts Bay, because all four of my grandparents trace their lin- 
 eage right back to Plymouth and Hingham. On my mother's 
 side both grandparents were Towers, descending in separate 
 lines from John Tower (1) at Hingham, 1637. On my father's 
 side my grandmother was a Tilson, a descendant of Edmund 
 (1) of Plymouth, 1638. The Bartletts, Towers, and Tilsons 
 of my ancestral lines came from these shores to Cumming- 
 ton, Mass., then an almost unbroken wilderness, at about the 
 same time, soon after the close of the Revolutionary War. 
 
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Edward Bartlett (5) came with ten children. Stephen 
 Tower (6) had thirteen children, but the Tilsons were not 
 quite as numerous. They settled on a section of country 
 about four miles square, their lands adjoining, and the fam- 
 ilies intermarried, " swapping " sisters and brothers until the 
 most expert genealogist would find it a difficult task to deter- 
 mine their precise relationship. The Bartlett and Tower 
 houses were less than a mile apart and I was born, April 3, 
 1841, in a house situated about half way between them. 
 
 That this little band of the faithful was destined to grow 
 in numbers and strength has been proven in subsequent years. 
 
 Previous to the second reunion of this Society the fol- 
 lowing call to the members, and program outlined, was 
 sent out: 
 
 The Second Annual Reunion of the Descendants of 
 
 Robert Bartlet, Plymouth, Mass. 
 
 1623 
 
 August 27, 1909 
 
 The second annual reunion of the Society of the De- 
 scendants of Robert Bartlet (1) of Plymouth, who came over in 
 the ship Ann, in 1623 will be held at White Horse Beach 
 Manomet, Plymouth, Mass., August 27, 1909. Manomet 
 is a charming seaside village in the historic old town of Plym- 
 outh, and White Horse Beach is the finest of Plymouth's 
 fine beaches and only a minute's walk from Hotel Crescent 
 where the meeting will be held. 
 
 Robert Bartlet married in 1628, Mary, daughter of Rich- 
 ard Warren, a Mayflower Pilgrim. 
 
 Manomet, the scene of many historic events, is where 
 Robert lived and died and where his possessions were. Only 
 a short walk by a path across the fields, is the second Bartlet 
 house built by Robert's son Joseph in 1680. The place is 
 known as the Bartlet Farm, and has been owned and occupied 
 by the Bartletts from that time to the present. 
 
 All persons who can trace their ancestry to Robert Bart- 
 let are cordially invited to be present and bring their friends 
 and thus assist in making the occasion one of great interest as 
 well as pleasant and profitable. It is earnestly desired also 
 that as many possible remain and visit on Saturday the many 
 points of great historical interest in and about Plymouth: 
 Plymouth Rock, Burial Hill, Pilgrim Hall, the National Mon- 
 ument to the Forefathers, etc. 
 
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Family Cradle found in the Old Bartlett House built 
 
 at Manomet in 1680. — Scene of Second 
 
 Reunion of Bartlett Society 
 
 Order of Exercises 
 
 August 27. — The day until 1.30 p. m. will be devoted to 
 the reception of members, registration, introductions, sight- 
 seeing, and sociability. 
 
 At 1.30 p. m. dinner will be served in the large dining-hall 
 of Hotel Crescent, which Avill be for our exclusive use from 
 that hour. 
 
 Immediately following dinner the business meeting will 
 be held in the dining-hall. 
 
 All Bartlett descendants are requested to be present and 
 express their views on questions which may arise. 
 
 Order of Business 
 
 1. Opening Exercises. 
 
 2. Secretary's Record of the previous meeting. 
 
 3. Secretary's Report. 
 
 4. Treasurer's Report. 
 
 5. Historian's Report. 
 
 6. Unfinished Business. 
 
 7. New Business. 
 
 8. Election of Officers. 
 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett, President. 
 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 Mrs. Edith I. Cushing, Secretary. 
 
 Middleboro, Mass. 
 
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Election of Officers 
 
 Officers 
 
 Lucius W. Bartlett, President, Hartford, Conn. 
 David L. Bodfish, First Vice-President, Palmer, Mass. 
 John Bartlett, Second Vice-President, Brockton, Mass. 
 Mrs. Edith I. Cushing, Secretary and Treasurer, Middle- 
 boro, Mass. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet, Historian, Roxburv, Mass. 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Lucius W. Bartlett, Hartford, Conn. 
 Mrs. Edith I. Cushing, Middleboro, Mass. 
 Ephraim D. Bartlett, Plymouth, Mass. 
 Miss Helen Bird, East Bridgewater, Mass. 
 Herman Packard, Brockton, Mass. 
 
 A feature of the reunion was the poem written for the 
 occasion and read by Mrs. Anna Bartlett Johnson of Mano- 
 met. 
 
 It was voted to erect a memorial on the spot where Robert 
 Bartlet erected his home. 
 
 Appended is the address of welcome by the President, 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett of Hartford, Conn. 
 
 President's Address, August 27, 1909 
 
 Brothers and sisters of the Robert Bartlet Family: — It 
 is with sincere pleasure that I once more welcome you to this 
 our second reunion. I am exceedingly gratified to see so 
 many of the descendants of Robert and Mary (Warren) 
 Bartlet gathered here, almost as it were upon the hearthstone 
 where they lived, and wrought, and died; where they, with 
 the rest of that little company of Pilgrims, contributed their 
 full share of the privations, the danger and the toil incident 
 to the founding of a new commonwealth upon the principles 
 of Justice, Equality, and the right of the people to govern 
 themselves. They builded better than they knew. By their 
 courage, steadfastness, and energy; by their strict adherence 
 to those cardinal principles of Honesty and Virtue so neces- 
 sary to the building of upright character and without which 
 no community or state can long survive, they laid the foun- 
 dations of this great, powerful, and prosperous nation, the 
 United States of America. 
 
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Ill my search for the descendants of Robert Bartlet, I 
 discovered some members of the family to whom I became 
 very much attached, which created a strong desire to meet 
 them all again and talk over, in a social and informal man- 
 ner, our common interests as members of the Bartlett family. 
 It was this desire that led to the call for the meeting which 
 was held at Brockton on August 13, 1908. That meeting was 
 a most gratifying success. The society was born; we gave it 
 a name and elected officers to look after its welfare. 
 
 We are here again, today, an infant of one year's growth, 
 yet a strong healthy child and, judging from the number 
 and character of those present, it is sufficiently able to walk 
 alone. 
 
 My concluding thought is — for what purpose was the 
 Society born and why are we gathered here today? We might 
 answer for social enjoyment; to have a day of relaxation 
 from the work and cares of our ordinary life; to make the 
 acquaintance of those who are our kindred in blood, who are 
 descendants of a common ancestor, not forgetting that in a 
 larger sense we are kindred of all people as we are children 
 of a common father, God. But to my mind there is some- 
 thing far deeper and more lasting, however good these things 
 may be in themselves. We are gathered here, I trust, to do 
 honor to the memory of those who by their virtues, their 
 precepts, their example, their steadfast adherence to prin- 
 ciple and to the right as they saw it, have left to us, their 
 children, an inheritance which we cannot value too highly. 
 In the contemplation of their characters;, and what they 
 achieved under adverse circumstances, we should gather in- 
 spiration and a renew r ed vigor to go forward in the battle, for 
 it is always such, for what is right, what is just, and whatever 
 there is we can do for the uplifting of humanity. We flatter 
 ourselves how brave we all would be if Ave had the opportu- 
 nity. If we had lived in their day or in the days of the Revo- 
 lution or the Civil War we would have been found in the 
 forefront of battle and on the firing line. Selfishness and 
 greed, vice and evil in all its forms never sleep on their arms. 
 You do not need a war nor a chance to face a cannon's mouth 
 to show that you are brave. What is needed in times of 
 peace are MORAL HEROES, in which we are wofully lack- 
 ing. There is plenty of room in that army, a great oppor- 
 tunity for you and me, for the world is brimful and running 
 over with moral cowards. Let us not add to the number. 
 
 Therefore, I repeat, let us gather together as often as we 
 can and resolve that we, so Far as in us lies, will make our- 
 selves worthy of the rich inheritance that has been bequeathed 
 to us by the privations, the struggles, and the sacrifices of 
 
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those we are met to honor. Let us preserve and transmit 
 that inheritance unimpaired to our posterity, that in the 
 years to come they may rise up and do us honor even as we 
 do honor those who have gone before us. 
 
 Report of Meeting Held August 13, 1908 (Previous 
 Meeting) by the Secretary 
 
 To the Members of the Society of the Descendants of Robert 
 Bartlet of Plymouth, who came in the ship Ann, 1623. / 
 render with much pleasure this report of the first meeting. 
 
 In response to the Call contained in the following circu- 
 lar letter, over fiftv persons, from all sections, assembled in 
 Y. M. C. A. Hall,' Brockton, Mass., Thursday, August 13, 
 1908. 
 
 The organizer, Mr. Lucius W. Bartlett, of Hartford, Conn., 
 called the meeting to order at 10 a. m. A temporary 
 organization was effected by making Mr. Lucius W. Bart- 
 lett Chairman, and Mrs. Edith I. (Bartlett) Cushing, Secre- 
 tary. 
 
 It was a very informal meeting and as a result of sociabil- 
 ity and a general discussion on the desirability of a Society 
 of the descendants of Robert Bartlet (1) the persons pres- 
 ent voted to form a permanent organization. 
 
 On motion a Committee was chosen, composed of the 
 Chairman, Secretary, and three others, Mr. Horace W. Mann 
 of Stoughton, Mr. David L. Bodfish of Palmer, and Mr. 
 John Bartlett of Brockton, to withdraw^ and report upon a 
 name and plan of organization for the new Society- During 
 this interval, all present were waiting out their lines of de- 
 scent co be given to an official for verification. 
 
 When the Chairman called the meeting to order once 
 more, the Committee made the following report, which was 
 unanimously accepted by those present. 
 
 That the organization be called the " Society of Descend- 
 ants of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth — who came in the Ship 
 Ann, in 1623." 
 
 That the officers shall consist of a President, two Vice- 
 Presidents, a Secretary-Treasurer, an Historian, and Execu- 
 tive Committee composed of five members, tw T o of which shall 
 be the President and Secretary. 
 
 The meeting then proceeded to elect officers and made 
 choice of the following: 
 
 President, Mr. Lucius Warren Bartlett, of Hartford, Conn. 
 
 1st Vice-President, Mr. David L. Bodfish, of Palmer, 
 Mass. 
 
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2d Vice-President, Mr. John Bartlett, of Brockton, Mass. 
 
 Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Edith I. (Bartlett) Cushing, of 
 Middleboro, Mass. 
 
 Historian, Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet, of Roxbury, Mass. 
 
 Executive Committee, President, Secretary, Mr. Ephraim 
 D. Bartlett, Plymouth, Mass., Miss Helen Bird, East 
 Bridgewater, Mass., Mr. Herman Packard, Brockton, Mass. 
 
 After the President's address of welcome, the next busi- 
 ness brought before the meeting was the question of dues. 
 As no organization can be conducted without more or less 
 expense, it was voted to make the dues fifty cents a year. 
 The financial year to begin with the date of the Annual Re- 
 union. 
 
 It was also voted that the executive committee prepare 
 a constitution and by-laws to present at the next meeting; 
 also voted that the time and place of the next meeting be 
 left with the executive committee. The morning session 
 was then adjourned until 2 o'clock. 
 
 Many of those present went to the old Bartlet Farm in 
 Stoughton, at the noon interval, to partake of their basket 
 lunch. While there a group picture was taken which appears 
 on our souvenir post cards. 
 
 The afternoon session was principally of a social nature. 
 
 The weather bureau reported the next day that " Yester- 
 day was one of the hottest August 13ths on record." Who 
 doubted it? 
 
 After making many pleasant acquaintances (as we were 
 mostly strangers before this) the meeting adjourned till 
 11 we meet again at our Second Annual Meeting." 
 
 All will agree that this first meeting of the Bartletts was a 
 decided success, and too much praise and thanks cannot be 
 given to our President, the organizer, Mr. Lucius W. Bart- 
 lett, who has been most generous in the expenditure of his 
 time and money to bring this about. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Edith I. (Bartlett) Cushing, Secretary. 
 
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Report of Treasurer for 1908 and 1909 
 
 To the members of the Society of Descendants of Robert Bartlet {I) of Plym- 
 outh, Mass., your Treasurer makes this first report: 
 
 Receipts 
 Annual dues from 70 members, at $.50 
 
 Expenditures 
 
 $35.00 
 
 Post-cards to use as Receipts 
 
 
 
 
 
 $2.00 
 
 Express charges 
 
 
 
 
 
 .40 
 
 2 Record Books, at $.25 
 
 
 
 
 
 .50 
 
 Letter-heads .... 
 
 
 
 
 
 4.50 
 
 11 Packages stamped envelopes 
 
 
 
 
 
 5.94 
 
 500 Programs .... 
 
 
 
 
 
 19.25 
 
 Balance due Treasury 
 
 
 
 
 
 2.41 
 
 $35.00 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Edith I. Bartlett Cushing, Treasurer. 
 
 Report of the Historian 
 
 For year ending August 27, 1900, at Plymouth 
 
 Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet 
 1908-1910 
 
 " When a land rejects her legends, 
 
 Sees but falsehood in the past, 
 And its people view their sires 
 In the light of fools or liars, 
 'Tis a sign of its decline; 
 
 And its splendors can not last. 
 Branches that but blight their roots, 
 Yield no sap for lasting fruits." 
 
 Scientific research has proved that every individual is a 
 composite being, and comprises a combination of the indi- 
 vidual characteristics and qualities of his ancestors; such being 
 the case it is a most natural and worthy desire to know who 
 one's ancestors were, and the nature of the qualities of mind 
 and body that it was possible for them to have transmitted 
 to us, their descendants. It is with mingled pride and pleas- 
 ure that we search the various records to learn of the part 
 which our several ancestors took in the affairs of the early 
 days in the Colony. The importance of this research and 
 study cannot be over-estimated, for thereby future generations 
 are furnished with important facts, as well as preserving im- 
 portant data. Tradition, as we know, cannot be depended 
 upon; although tradition is often founded upon facts, it has 
 no weight as records. Then again a study of the virtues and 
 
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frailties of our ancestors, serves a double purpose; their vir- 
 tues serve as examples for us to follow; and over their mis- 
 takes we draw the mantle of sympathy and charity. Of the 
 patriotism of our valiant pioneer ancestors we are justly 
 proud, and we honor and revere the memory of such an 
 ancestor as Robert Bartlet, who left an unsullied name and 
 who helped as a loyal and worthy citizen to lay the founda- 
 tion of our Commonwealth, and our country. It should be 
 an inspiration to make us mindful of our own obligations, 
 and to pass on to our posterity an unsullied record. 
 
 We regret that we know nothing of our Robert Bartlet's 
 boyhood and youth, but we can imagine that he probably, 
 like the majority of the people of southern England, was 
 greatly attracted by the wonderful narratives of Captain 
 John Smith, Sir Francis Drake, and others, regarding New 
 England and its possibilities. Captain John Smith made a 
 famous map of this country, copies of which, with a list of 
 inducements which the new country offered, were sent to 
 the nobility and gentry of the southern counties of England. 
 There is no question but subsequent emigration was largely 
 induced by this act of Captain John Smith. Among the 
 number were many younger sons who were attracted by the 
 love of adventure, as well as the desire for wealth. Possibly 
 our own Robert may have been a younger son, who was eager 
 for new experiences, with high hopes of a possible fortune 
 besides. Can we not picture a well-favored youth, in the 
 early twenties, with bright and mirthful eyes, full of the vigor 
 of youth, hope, and eager anticipations, nothing daunted by 
 vague stories of the perils and dangers experienced by the 
 Pilgrims at Plymouth during the terrible winter succeeding 
 their arrival in 1620, coming to the new world in search of the 
 unknown? 
 
 With cheerful courage he embarked on the ship Ann, 
 in 1623, for this country, and found himself one of a large 
 and pleasant company, many of whom had similar aims to 
 his own. Among the number was one who afterward dis- 
 tinguished himself as Governor of the Massachusetts Bay 
 Colony, Roger Conant, who, together with his wife and 
 infant son, was seeking a home in New England. It is safe 
 to believe that like young men of every age and clime Robert 
 was not indifferent to the sight of a pretty maiden; certain it 
 is, that when he saw sweet Mary Warren he was captivated 
 by her shy and winsome grace, and she in turn was not insen- 
 sible to the superior attractions and pleasant companionship 
 of her fellow traveler. The long voyage with its many real 
 and fancied perils, furnished him with vast and varied oppor- 
 tunities for a closer acquaintance than would be possible today 
 
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on one of our modern steamships. Great opportunity was 
 furnished Mrs. Warren to estimate Robert's desirable qual- 
 ities. The mother of Mary was on her way to join her hus- 
 band at Plymouth. It would seem that during the daily 
 intercourse of ninety days or more on shipboard, Robert 
 must have made a favorable impression upon Mrs. Warren as 
 well as her daughter, for later on when Robert asked Richard 
 Warren for the hand of his daughter in marriage, his suit was 
 looked upon favorably, as we know. 
 
 Richard Warren's own history is full of interest; he was 
 a man of wealth who had been a successful merchant in Lon- 
 don who upon learning of the proposed departure of the 
 Pilgrims for Plymouth in 1620, set sail with them, without 
 his family, with a view to investment and speculation in the 
 country to be settled. He was a staunch supporter of the 
 English Church, as had been his family for generations. 
 His lineage is of the oldest, identical with the peerage, through 
 royal lines. Although the records of Plymouth Colony, 
 like all records of that period, are very incomplete, Richard 
 Warren it is known, was one of the principal men in the af- 
 fairs of the Colony at that time, and his advice was sought 
 in important financial matters. Just previous to the land- 
 ing of the Pilgrims he was one of the five Commissioners 
 chosen in the cabin of the Mayflower to embark in the small 
 boat, to seek a suitable landing-place, which resulted in their 
 spending the night on Clark's Island. 
 
 The ships Ann and Little James reached Plymouth 
 about the same time, having on board beside the general 
 body those who came on " their particular," meaning those 
 who paid their own expenses for the voyage, which entitled 
 them to being assigned lots of land. Robert Bartlet was 
 without doubt one of this number for, upon his arrival, he 
 was granted an acre of land upon Eel River in Plymouth. 
 The nearest approach to a feast offered to the new arrivals 
 consisted of a piece of fish without bread and a cup of fair 
 spring water. Robert was a cooper by occupation, sometimes 
 called wine cooper in the records, and was evidently a man 
 greatly respected. He served several times as a member of 
 the Grand Jury, also frequently on trial juries, and several 
 times as surveyor of highways. His name appears in the 
 records as a " freeman " in 1633. As a wedding gift, Mrs. 
 Warren presented Robert with a lot of land which, with 
 subsequent additions, was the legacy transmitted to his sec- 
 ond son, Joseph, situated in what is now Manomet. His 
 other children were: Benjamin, Rebecca, William, Mary, 
 Sarah Elizabeth, Lydia, and Mercy. In the records of the 
 town of Plymouth may be seen a copy of his will. 
 
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Where he lies buried is not recorded, but it is generally 
 believed that the space at the side of his son Joseph on Burial 
 Hill was his last resting-place. There is no record of the 
 death of his wife. It is interesting to know that undoubtedly 
 Robert Bartlet was a man of decided views, for it is recorded 
 that he was once summoned to Court for " speaking con- 
 temptuously of the practice of the singing of psalms." He 
 was sharply admonished, and allowed to depart after acknow- 
 ledging his fault. 
 
 It is to be sincerely hoped that one of the results of our 
 honored Society, composed of the descendants of Robert 
 Bartlet, will be the establishing of the proof of the relation- 
 ship, if any, existing between Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, 
 who arrived there in 1623, and the Bartlett family at Stop- 
 ham, County of Sussex, England.* This family dates back 
 to Adam de Barttelot, an esquire, who came from Normandy 
 into England, and was granted lands, and buried at Stopham 
 Church in 1100. John Barttelot, his descendant, captured 
 the castle of Fontenoy in France, in the fourteenth century, 
 and to him was granted the crest of the castle. The family 
 upon being granted the title of knighthood were given the 
 right to keep swans upon the river Avon, a right permitted to 
 but few families. The eldest line of Barttelots have lived at 
 Stopham since the Xorman Conquest, and their remains are 
 buried in the tomb under the church. The complete rec- 
 ords of the Bartlet family since 1300 may be seen in the 
 church. The windows of this church are curious and very hand- 
 some, with coats-of-arms in stained glass and bearing the 
 Barttelot name. The coat-of-arms has eleven quarterings, 
 and there are two family crests. From time immemorial 
 the Barttelot family has held a high position among the 
 landed gentry, having always a Member of Parliament 
 represented by the family. The estate is entailed, the pre- 
 vious owner, Sir Walter Barttelot, was killed in the Boer War. 
 The present members of the family living upon the old estate 
 are most courteous to the representatives of the family in 
 America, who are always hospitably received. The Bart- 
 letts in America, whose claim to the lineage of the Barttelot 
 family at Stopham has been proved, are the descendants of 
 Richard and John who settled at Newbury in 1635, and 
 Thomas at Watertown. It is believed that there is good 
 authority for thinking that Robert Bartlet, our ancestor, 
 was connected with the family at Stopham, f Robert being 
 
 * Editor's Note. — It is generally conceded that all the Bartlets 
 coming to this country previous to 1700, are members of the Bartlett fam- 
 ily of Stopham, Sussex county, England, or its branches. 
 
 t See previous note of Editor on this point. 
 
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a name occurring in the early records. The name of Bart- 
 lett has been honorably borne by Robert's descendants, 
 some of whom have acquired fame and renown. We are 
 honored to claim among them the poet Longfellow, John 
 Bartlett, author of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and Wil- 
 liam Ashmead Bartlett. who married the noted English phil- 
 anthropist, Baroness Burdett Coutts; also many clergymen and 
 a goodly number of true, upright men and women. Standing 
 here today and looking across the green, pleasant fields stretch- 
 ing away from the silver sands to the site of the happy and 
 peaceful home of Robert and Mary Bartlet, what feelings of 
 gratitude fill our hearts that we can thus celebrate their 
 memory without a blot upon the family escutcheon. 
 
 During the past year I have answered forty-eight letters 
 besides writing to many supposed to be descendants of Rob- 
 ert Bartlet, also interviewing many persons, and doing all 
 in my power to help them establish their line of descent by 
 visiting genealogical headquarters, etc., for them. I have 
 sent announcements to thirty-five persons, some of whom 
 have become members. Some who were positive they 
 belonged to this branch of the family have been shown their 
 mistake and found to belong to the line of Richard of New- 
 bury. I have spent much time, most agreeably, in preparing 
 this historical sketch of the life of Robert Bartlet and col- 
 lecting the preceding data. 
 
 The work as historian for the year 1910 was along the 
 same lines, but such was the popularity of the Society that 
 requests similar to the following were more than doubled, 
 increasing the amount of correspondence. Information was 
 desired of Aruna Bartlet, who married Remember Holmes 
 of Plymouth in 1776, or thereabout; this missing link 
 would establish the connection of the inquirer with the line 
 of Robert Bartlet. 
 
 Descendants of. a family of Bartletts living at Thetford, 
 Vt., in 1775, wished particular information that has not 
 been found. It is most encouraging to witness the growth of 
 our Society upon a broad and permanent basis, for which we 
 are gratefully indebted to our honored President, Lucius W. 
 Bartlett. At the close of my second year, owing to illness 
 in my family, I was unable to continue in office as Historian, 
 and was obliged to decline re-election, although urged to 
 retain the office. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet. 
 
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On December 30, 1909, the following Charter was adopted, 
 showing the steady determination of the officers and mem- 
 bers of this Society to rivet closely the household. 
 
 CHARTER AND BY-LAWS 
 
 Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet of 
 Plymouth, Massachusetts 
 
 The first meeting of the subscribers to the Agreement of Association 
 to constitute a corporation by the name of 
 
 Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet of 
 Plymouth, Massachusetts 
 
 was held pursuant to notice in the city of Boston, December 11, 1909. 
 Lucius W. Bartlett was chosen chairman of the meeting. Ermina Bart- 
 lett Suhanek was elected temporary clerk, and after being duly sworn 
 presented to the meeting a set of by-laws which were unanimously adopted. 
 Officers were then elected as proYided for by Article 3, Section 1, of the 
 by-laws, as follows: 
 
 President, Lucius W. Bartlett, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 First Vice-President, Mercer V. Tilson, South Hanson, Mass. 
 
 Second Vice-President, Charles H. Bartlett, Dorchester, Mass. 
 
 Secretary-Treasurer, Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, Holyoke, Mass. 
 
 Historian, Sarah S. Bartlet, Roxbury, Mass. 
 
 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
 
 Be it Known That whereas Lucius W. Bartlett, Ermina D. Bart- 
 lett Suhanek, Mercer V. Tilson, Chas. H. Bartlett, Sarah S. Bartlet, Anna 
 B. Johnson and Warren Tower Bartlett haYe associated themselYes with 
 the intention of forming a corporation under the name of the 
 
 Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet of 
 Plymouth, Massachusetts, 
 
 for the purpose of founding a permanent association of the Society of the 
 Descendants of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and of so 
 perpetuating the memory of a worthy and revered pioneer and founder of 
 the Plymouth Colony, of uniting socially the descendants of said Robert 
 Bartlet of Plymouth, Massachusetts, of holding meetings and reunions of 
 the said descendants, of promoting historical, genealogical, and antiqua- 
 rian research concerning the said Robert Bartlet and his ancestors and de- 
 scendants, of compiling and disseminating, by publication or in any other 
 manner, such knowledge so obtained or otherwise acquired, concerning the 
 said Robert Bartlet and his ancestors and descendants, of obtaining, 
 holding, acquiring by gift, purchase, or otherwise owning, leasing, estab- 
 lishing, maintaining, mortgaging, selling, or otherwise disposing of monu- 
 ments and memorial buildings and memorial tablets to the memory of 
 the said Robert Bartlet, and any of his ancestors or descendants, buildings 
 for museums, buildings of historical interest, buildings adapted to the hold- 
 ing of reunions and meetings, or necessary or desirable for the furtherance 
 of the purposes of the corporation, and land for the erection or location of 
 such monuments, tablets, and buildings, or upon which are situated any 
 such monuments, tablets, or buildings, or which surround the same, and 
 personal property of historical interest, or other property, real, personal, 
 
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or mixed, that may be necessary or desirable in carrying out the purposes 
 of the corporation, and have complied with the provisions of the statutes 
 of this Commonwealth, in such case made and provided, as appears from 
 the certificate of the proper officers of said corporation, duly approved by 
 the Commissioner of Corporations, and recorded in this office: 
 
 Now, therefore, I, William M. Olin, Secretary of the Commonwealth 
 of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that said Lucius VV. Bartlett, Ermina 
 D. Bartlett Suhanek, Mercer V. Tillson, Charles H. Bartlett, Sarah S. 
 Bartlet, Anna B. Johnson, and Warren Tower Bartlett, their associates 
 and successors, are legally organized and established as, and are hereby 
 made, an existing corporation under the name of the 
 
 Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet of 
 Plymouth, Massachusetts, 
 
 with the powers, rights, and privileges, and subject to the limitations, 
 duties, and restrictions, which by law appertain thereto. 
 
 Witness my official signature hereunto subscribed, and 
 the Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, here- 
 (seal) unto affixed, this thirtieth day of December, in the year of 
 our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine. 
 William M. Olin, 
 
 Secretary of the Commonwealth. 
 
 BY-LAWS OF THE 
 
 Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet of 
 Plymouth, Massachusetts 
 
 ARTICLE I 
 
 Principal Office. — The principal office of this Society shall be located 
 at Holyoke, Mass. 
 
 ARTICLE II 
 
 Members. — Any descendant of Robert Bartlet who came from 
 England in 1623 and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, may become a 
 member of this Society by making application therefor to the Secretary, 
 paying the membership fee and proving to the satisfaction of the Execu- 
 tive Board that the applicant for membership is a descendant of the said 
 Robert Bartlet. 
 
 ARTICLE III 
 
 Section 1. Officers. — The officers of the Society shall be a Presi- 
 dent, a First Vice-President, a Second Vice-President, a Secretary-Treas- 
 urer, a Historian, and an Executive Board consisting of the five officers 
 already named. All officers shall be elected by ballot at the annual meet- 
 ing of the Society and shall serve until their successors are elected and qual- 
 ify. Any two offices, except that of the President and First Vice-Presi- 
 dent, may be filled by one and the same member. 
 
 Sec 2. President. — The President shall preside at all meetings of 
 the Society and of the Executive Board and shall be the chief executive 
 officer and head of the Society. He shall perform all such duties as are 
 incident to his office or which may be required of him by the Executive 
 Board. 
 
 Sec 3. Vice-Presidents. — The Vice-Presidents shall have such 
 powers and shall perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the 
 Executive Board. In case of the absence or disability of the President, 
 
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the duties of the office of President shall be performed by the First Vice- 
 President. 
 
 Sec. 4. Secretary. — The Secretary shall keep the minutes of all pro- 
 ceedings and of the meetings of the Society and shall keep a record of all 
 votes. He shall attend to the giving of proper notice of all meetings and 
 shall in general perform all duties incident to his office. He shall be ex- 
 officio Secretary of the Executive Board. 
 
 Sec. 5. Treasurer. — The Treasurer shall collect, receive, and dis- 
 burse the funds of the Society under the direction of the Executive Board. 
 He shall keep regular books containing the accounts of the Society and shall 
 render statements of its financial condition at the annual meeting of the 
 Society and whenever required by the Executive Board. The Treasurer 
 shall give a bond to the Society in such an amount and tenor as the Execu- 
 tive Board may require. 
 
 Sec. 6. Historian. — The Historian shall attend to the correspond- 
 ence of the Society, except the giving of notices of meetings, and shall have 
 the custody of papers, documents, and other similar things of historical 
 interest to the Society, and shall perform such other duties incident to 
 the office as may be assigned to the Historian by the Executive Board. 
 
 Sec. 7. Executive Board. — The Executive Board shall have and 
 exercise full control and management of the affairs and business of the 
 Society, except such as are conferred by law or by these by-laws upon 
 the officers of this Society. The Executive Board may from time to time 
 adopt such rules and regulations not inconsistent with the law, or these 
 by-laws, as they shall determine. It may delegate any of its powers and 
 duties to any officer or committee consisting either of members of the 
 Executive Board or of the Society. It may by resolution appoint com- 
 mittees for furthering the interests of the Society and determine by res- 
 olution the powers and duties of such committees. 
 
 Sec. 8. Vacancies. — In case of vacancy occurring among the officers 
 and members of the Executive Board by reason of death, resignation or 
 otherwise, the remaining members of the Board may elect by majority 
 vote by ballot a successor who shall hold office for the unexpired term. 
 
 ARTICLE IV 
 
 Section 1. Annual Meetings. — The annual meeting of the members 
 of this Society shall be held in the State of Massachusetts at such place, 
 day, and hour as the Executive Board may determine, between the first 
 day of June and the first day of September. Four members shall con- 
 stitute a quorum at all meetings. 
 
 Sec. 2. Special Meetings. — Special meetings of the Society for any 
 purpose shall be held, whenever called by a majority vote of the entire 
 Executive Board, in the State of Massachusetts, at such place, day, and 
 hour as the said Board may determine. The resolution calling a special 
 meeting shall state the object of such meeting and a copy of such resolu- 
 tion shall be included in the notice to members. 
 
 Sec. 3. Notices. — Notice of any meeting stating the time and place 
 of said meeting shall be mailed by the Secretary, at least thirty days prior 
 to the meeting, to each member of the Society at his address as the same 
 appears on the books of the Society. 
 
 Sec. 4. Order of Business. — The order of business at meetings of the 
 Society shall be as follows: 
 
 1. Roll call, a quorum being present. 
 
 2. Reading of minutes of preceding meeting and action thereon. 
 
 3. Reports of officers. 
 
 4. Reports of committees. 
 
 5. Action upon reports of officers and committees. 
 
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6. Unfinished business. 
 
 7. Election of officers. 
 
 8. New business. 
 
 Sec. 5. Adjournment. — If at any meeting duly called a quorum should 
 fail to attend, those present may adjourn the meeting from time to time 
 without further notice until a quorum shall attend, and thereupon any 
 business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meet- 
 ing as originally called, had the same been held. 
 
 Sec. 6. Elections. — At the election of officers the polls shall be 
 opened and closed and all ballots shall be received and counted by two 
 inspectors of election, who shall be appointed by the presiding officer of 
 the meeting, and who shall report to the Secretary of the meeting in writ- 
 ing the result of the ballot. All officers shall be elected by a majority of 
 the members present and voting. The Executive Board may, if it sees 
 fit, appoint a nominating committee whose duty it shall be to report to 
 the meeting a list of candidates nominated for the offices of the Society. 
 
 ARTICLE V 
 
 Section 1. Fiscal Year. — The fiscal year of the Society shall be 
 from June 1 to May 31, except that the first fiscal year shall be from the 
 date of the adoption of these by-laws to May 31, 1910. 
 
 ARTICLE VI 
 
 Section 1. Dues. — The membership fee which each member shall 
 pay on joining the Society shall be fifty cents and thereafter there shall 
 be an annual fee of fifty cents due and payable on the first day of the cal- 
 endar month following the annual meeting. 
 
 ARTICLE VII 
 
 Section 1. Meetings of the Executive Board. — The Executive Board 
 may fix and declare the time and place of holding its meetings. 
 
 Sec 2. Calling of Meetings. — The meetings of the Executive Board 
 shall be held whenever called by the President of the Society and shall be 
 called by him whenever two or more members of the Board shall request 
 in writing that a meeting be held. 
 
 Sec 3. Notices. — Notices of all meetings of the Executive Board 
 stating the time and place shall be mailed by the Secretary at least ten 
 days prior to the meeting to each member of the Board at his address as 
 the same appears on the books of the Society. A quorum of the Execu- 
 tive Board shall consist of a majority of the whole Board for the time 
 being in office. 
 
 Sec 4. May Act Without Meetings. — The Executive Board shall 
 have power to act in the following manner: A resolution in writing signed 
 by a majority of all the members in office shall be deemed to be the action 
 of such Executive Board to the effect therein expressed, with the same force 
 and effect as if the same had been duly passed by the same vote at a duly 
 convened meeting, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary to record such 
 resolution in the minute books of the Society under the proper date, 
 provided that all members of the Board shall have received copies of such 
 resolution and shall have had a reasonable opportunity to communicate 
 with other members concerning the same. 
 
 ARTICLE VII I 
 
 Amendments. — These by-laws may be altered, amended, or repealed 
 at any annual or special meeting of the Society by a two-thirds vote of 
 
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the members present and voting, provided that the proposed alteration, 
 amendment, or resolution of repeal shall have been presented in writing 
 to the Secretary at least sixty days previous to the meeting. And it 
 shall be the duty of the Secretary to include in his notice of the meeting 
 sent to the members of the Society a copy of the proposed alteration, 
 amendment, or resolution of repeal. 
 
 List of Charter Members 
 
 August 13, 1908 to August 27, 1909 
 
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 Mr. Lucius Warren Bartictt 
 
 Mrs. Zilpha J. Bartlett 
 
 Mrs. Ermina D. Bartlett Suhanck 
 
 Mr. David L. Bodfish . 
 
 Mr. Ephraim Diman Bartlett 
 
 Mrs. Edith I. Bartlett Cushing 
 
 Mrs. Eugenia F. B. Lovell . 
 
 Mr. Henry Marshall Bird 
 
 Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet 
 
 Miss Sarah B. Bartlet 
 
 Mr. Charles H. Bartlett 
 
 Mrs. Mary M. Farry . 
 
 Miss Isabelle M. Bartictt 
 
 Miss Edith E. Bartlett 
 
 Miss Marcia J. Bartictt 
 
 Mr. John A. Bartlett . 
 
 Miss Helen A. Bird 
 
 Rev. Ephraim H. Bartlett . 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Bird Mann 
 
 Mr. Horace A. Bird 
 
 Mr. Frederick H. Bird 
 
 Miss Anna E. Bartlett 
 
 Miss Helen L. Bartlett 
 
 Mr. Warren Tower Bartlett 
 
 Mrs. Alice Bartlett Forbes . 
 
 Miss Barbara Hyde Forbes . 
 
 Mr. Arthur Lucius Bartlett 
 
 Mrs. Leota Gray Bartlett 
 
 Mrs. Emma B. Thrall . 
 
 Mr. Oliver J. Thrall . 
 
 Mrs. Flora B. Ulrich . 
 
 Mr. W. Lerov llrich 
 
 *Mrs. Alice P. Burdick 
 
 Mr. Herman Packard 
 
 Mrs. Mary Carr Packard 
 
 Mr. Francis Bartlett, P. O. Box 14 
 
 Mr. Simeon A. Bird 
 
 Mr. Robert W. Bartlett 
 
 *Mrs. Yesta Bartlett Tower 
 
 Mr. Theodore Parker Tower 
 
 *Mr. Mercer V. Tilson 
 
 Mr. John Q. Tillson 
 
 Mr. Francis Bartlett 
 
 Mrs. Acidic Waite Colgan 
 
 Mrs. F. Madelyn B. Hoyt 
 
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 Windsor, Conn. 
 Windsor, Conn. 
 Holyoke, Mass. 
 Palmer, Mass. 
 Plymouth, Mass. 
 Middleboro, Mass 
 Whitman, Mass. 
 Stoughton, Mass. 
 Roxbury, Mass. 
 Roxbury, Mass. 
 Dorchester, Mass. 
 Dorchester, Mass. 
 Brockton, Mass. 
 Brockton, Mass. 
 Brockton, Mass. 
 Brockton, Mass. 
 East Bridgewater, 
 Waterville, Vt. 
 Stoughton, Mass. 
 Brockton, Mass. 
 Brockton, Mass. 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 Salt Lake City, Utah 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 Springfield, Mass. 
 Springfield, Mass. 
 Windsor, Conn. 
 Windsor, Conn. 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 Brockton, Mass. 
 Brockton, Mass. 
 Boston, Mass. 
 Campello, Mass. 
 New Bedford, Mass. 
 Cummington, Mass. 
 Cummington, Mass. 
 South Hanson, Mass. 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 Manomet, Mass. 
 Indianapolis, End. , 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 * Deceased. 
 
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46 Mr. William B. Browne 
 
 47 Mrs. Rebecca C. Boomer 
 
 48 Mr. E. Paran Bartlett 
 
 49 Miss Marguerite Bartlett 
 
 50 Mr. Leroy C. Bartlett 
 
 51 Rev. William P. Bartlett 
 
 52 Miss Mary A. Tower . 
 
 53 Mrs. Angeline T. Haskins 
 
 54 Miss Edith A. Haskins 
 
 55 Mr. Joseph B. White . 
 
 56 Mrs. Susan J. Hopkins 
 
 57 Miss Mary A. Hopkins 
 
 58 Mrs. Amanda B. Soule 
 
 59 Mr. Loring Robbins 
 
 60 Mrs. Polly McFarlin Nauman 
 
 61 Mrs. Elizabeth B. Ames Carver 
 
 62 Miss L. Florence Bartlett 
 
 63 Mrs. Minnie B. Harlow 
 
 64 Miss Florence J. Harlow 
 
 65 Mr. Arthur H. Churchill 
 
 66 Mr. Sampson McFarlin 
 
 67 Mrs. Anna Bartlett Johnson 
 
 Total, 67. 
 
 Blackinton, Mass. 
 Campello, Mass. 
 Manomet, Mass. 
 W'orthington, Mass. 
 Marshfield Center, Mass. 
 Plymouth, N. H. 
 Worthington, Mass. 
 Springfield, Mass. 
 Springfield, Mass. 
 North Hanson, Mass. 
 Weymouth, Mass. 
 W r ey mouth, Mass. 
 Middleboro, Mass. 
 North Auburn, Me. 
 Plymouth, Mass. 
 Elmwood, Mass. 
 Belmont, Mass. 
 Whitman, Mass. 
 W'hitman, Mass. 
 Montclair, N. J. 
 Middleboro, Mass. 
 Dorchester, Mass. 
 
 THE THIRD ANNUAL REUNION 
 
 of the Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet, 
 June 16, 1910 
 
 The Third Annual Reunion of The Society of the Descend- 
 ants of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass., will be held in 
 the chapel of the Methodist Church, corner of Court and 
 Brewster Streets, Plymouth, Mass., on Thursday, June 16, 
 1910. The chapel is only a short walk from the railroad sta- 
 tion and right on the line of the electric cars. It will be 
 open all day for the convenience of those who attend. 
 
 At 10.30 a. m. the meeting will come to order for the 
 transaction of business as follows: 
 
 1. Opening exercises. 
 
 2. Reading of the Secretary's record of the previous 
 meeting. 
 
 3. Reports of officers and committees. 
 
 4. New business. 
 
 5. Election of officers. 
 
 At 12.30 lunch will be served in Wesleyan Hall, by the 
 Ladies' Aid Society of the Methodist Church. Price per 
 plate, fifty cents. 
 
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At the last reunion it was voted that a suitable memorial 
 be placed upon the site of the home of Robert and Mary 
 (Warren) Bartlet. It is with great satisfaction we are able 
 to state that all the detail work has been accomplished and 
 the memorial will be completed by the time of the meeting. 
 
 It also gives us much pleasure to announce that Mrs. 
 Marian Longfellow, a member of our society and a niece of 
 the poet Longfellow, who was himself a descendant of Robert 
 Bartlet, will address the meeting by request, her subject 
 being, " Our Pilgrim Ancestors and the Debt We Owe Them." 
 
 After the lunch will be the address, remarks by members 
 and others, and a visit to the memorial by those who desire. 
 
 All of the Bartletts are invited to come and bring their 
 friends with them. It is hoped that every descendant will 
 make this 16th day of June, the most beautiful month in 
 the year, a real home-coming to the old historic town of Plym- 
 outh, the parent homestead of our Bartlett family. 
 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett, President. 
 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Mrs. Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, 
 
 Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 Holyoke, Mass. 
 
 The President welcomed the Society of the Descendants 
 of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass., at the opening of the 
 exercises in the Methodist Church at Plymouth on June 16, 
 1910, in a few chosen words. 
 
 He also gave reports on the incorporating of the Society 
 and on the privilege of erecting a memorial to our ancestor 
 Robert Bartlet, and Mary Warren his wife, which appear in 
 these proceedings. 
 
 Report of the Secretary 
 
 Secretary's Report of meeting held August 27, 1909, 
 (read by Mrs. Suhanek). 
 
 White Horse Beach, Manomet, was the Mecca for about 
 fourscore descendants of Robert Bartlet. Nature was lav- 
 ish and provided an ideal day for the Second Annual Re- 
 union of the Society which was held at Hotel Crescent. It 
 was a day in which to rejoice, so perfect were the atmospheric 
 conditions. 
 
 The morning was spent in registering, introductions, and 
 renewing acquaintance. Many walked to the old Bartlet 
 House, which was built in 1680 by Robert's son Joseph, and 
 is still owned by the Bartletts. 
 
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At 1.30 the company marched to the dining-room with 
 hearts and steps attune to music. A satisfactory dinner was 
 served, after which a group photograph was taken in front of 
 the hotel. The party returned to the dining-room and the 
 clan was called to order by the president, Mr. Lucius Warren 
 Bartlett. 
 
 In the absence of Mrs. Edith I. Cushing, the Secretary, 
 Mrs. Eugenia F. Bartlett Lovell was appointed Secretary 
 pro tern. 
 
 Prayer was offered by Rev. Walter R. Bartlett of Dighton, 
 Mass. 
 
 An address of welcome by the President followed, in which 
 he extended greeting to his kindred and told of " The Early 
 Days of the Bartlett Family," showing how the descendant 
 had played a noble part in the development of the country. 
 
 Mrs. Anna Bartlett Johnson contributed a poem descrip- 
 tive of Robert the ancestor. 
 
 The address in full, also a newspaper account of the meet- 
 ing, with other items, are appended to this report as they may 
 be of interest in the future. 
 
 The Secretary's record of the previous meeting was read 
 by Mrs. Eugenia F. Bartlett Lovell, and accepted. 
 
 The report of the Historian, Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet, was 
 submitted and accepted. 
 
 The efficiency of the services of the President, Secretary, 
 Treasurer, and Historian was recognized by a vote of thanks. 
 
 The President asked for an expression as to the time and 
 place of the next meeting and after some suggestions it was 
 voted that the matter be left with the executive committee. 
 
 The matter of annual dues was considered. Voted, that 
 the dues remain the same as last year, fifty cents per annum. 
 
 A letter received from Mr. Charles H. Warren of Provi- 
 dence, R. I., a descendant of both Richard Warren and Rob- 
 ert Bartlet, was read, in which he gave the Society permis- 
 sion to place a monument to mark the site of the home of 
 Robert and Mary (Warren) Bartlet which was situated upon 
 Mr. Warren's land. It was voted to accept the offer and that 
 the Society proceed to erect a suitable memorial. 
 
 Xo further business being offered, upon motion a commit- 
 tee was appointed to submit a list of persons for officers for 
 the ensuing year. The following list was submitted and unan- 
 imously elected. 
 
 President, Mr. Lucius Warren Bartlett, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 First Vice-President, Mr. Mercer Y. Tilson, South Hanson, 
 Mass. 
 
 Second Vice-President, Mr. Charles H. Bartlett, Dorches- 
 ter, Mass. 
 
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Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, 
 Holyoke, Mass. 
 
 Historian, Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet, Roxbury, Mass. 
 
 Mrs. Edith I. Bartlett Cushing, the former most efficient 
 Secretary, in a letter to the President, positively declined to be a 
 candidate for re-election on account of her many other duties. 
 
 It was further voted that the officers elected constitute 
 the executive committee and that they be empowered to fill 
 all vacancies on the Board. Voted to adjourn. 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 Eugenia F. Bartlett Lovell, Secretary pro tern. 
 
 Treasurer's Report for 1909-10 
 
 Receipts 
 
 Balance from last report 
 Membership fees 
 Sale of Badges 
 
 Total 
 Balance due Treasurer 
 
 $2.41 
 40 . 00 
 15.95 
 
 $58.36 
 203.63 
 
 $261 .99 
 
 Expenditures 
 
 To Coat-of-Arms and drawing for same 
 " Envelopes and postage 
 " Bill for badges .... 
 " Placard and information at station 
 " 200 Receipts .... 
 
 " 800 Letter-heads 
 " 17 Packages stamped envelopes 
 " 300 Charter and By-Laws 
 " 200 Circular letters 
 " Notary certificate, .50, and Registration fee, .50 
 " Record book .... 
 
 " Expense on Charter 
 " Expenses for Memorial Tablet: 
 Expense to Plymouth, May 5th . 
 Bill to Mr. Mercer V. Tilson 
 
 Clark & Finney 
 
 Tablet .... 
 
 Ellis & Clarke 
 
 Ephraim D. Bartlett 
 
 Smith, Lindsley Co. 
 
 $7 
 
 .00 
 
 3 
 
 .27 
 
 11 
 
 .05 
 
 1 
 
 85 
 
 2 
 
 75 
 
 4 
 
 50 
 
 9 
 
 24 
 
 13 
 
 75 
 
 2 
 
 50 
 
 1 
 
 00 
 
 1 
 
 00 
 
 9 
 
 56 
 
 15 
 
 00 
 
 14 
 
 34 
 
 108 
 
 43 
 
 22 
 
 40 
 
 17 
 
 00 
 
 8 
 
 85 
 
 8 
 
 50 
 
 $261.99 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Ermina B. Suhanek, Treasurer. 
 
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The President called attention to an interesting relic 
 exhibited by Mr. Ephraim D. Bartlett. It was an iron fire- 
 back, bearing the date 1660. A little history concerning it 
 may be of interest. 
 
 This fire-back was imported from England by Joseph 
 Bartlet (2) son of Robert Bartlet (1) who came to Plymouth 
 in the ship Ann in 1623. Joseph (2) married about 1660 
 and went to Manomet Ponds (now, 1880, South Plymouth) 
 and there built a house and settled. In 1680 Joseph (2) 
 
 built another house at Manomet, and years later the original 
 house came into possession of Charles Dana Bartlett (8) and 
 Hosea C. Bartlett (8) sons of Charles Bartlett (7) who lived 
 in the house about fifty years. Years later Hosea C. Bart- 
 lett (8) tore down his half of the house and Charles Dana 
 Bartlett (8) moved his half farther up the road, where it is 
 still standing today (June 16, 1910). In taking down the 
 chimney, this fire-back was discovered and was sold in 1880 
 by Charles Dana Bartlett to A. M. Harrison, United States 
 Coast Survey, and left by him to Miss Sarah Achsah Bartlett, 
 of Plvmouth, Mass. 
 
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Report of Chairman of Committee ox Memorial 
 
 To the officers and members of the Bartlett Society: Your 
 Committee considered that the first and essential thing to be 
 done was to secure the legal right to the use of the land where 
 this memorial was to be placed, with a right of way thereto. 
 
 The first requirement made by the owners of the land 
 was that we should establish to their satisfaction that the 
 spot that we had selected was, as we claimed, the site of the 
 home of Robert and Mary (Warren) Bartlet. 
 
 Mr. Mercer V. Tilson, our Vice-President, at some expense 
 and a great deal of time, looked up all the land records per- 
 taining thereto, made surveys of the land, and a map draw- 
 ing of the same, which upon careful examination by Mr. 
 Warren, was accepted by him as conclusive evidence that we 
 were right in respect to our claim. 
 
 During the progress of this work, Mr. Warren had made a 
 sale of the land whereon this site was located, to Mr. Charles 
 A. Stone, of Plymouth, upon condition that Mr. Stone should 
 carry out the agreement, which he had practically made with 
 the officers of the Bartlet Society. 
 
 On Monday, May 2, 1910, your President and Vice- 
 President met in Boston at the office of Mr. Stone's attorney 
 and an agreement was made whereby a deed has been given 
 and recorded upon the Plymouth Land Records, which gives 
 to the Society the use of a piece of land one hundred feet 
 square, whereon this site is located, with a right of way 
 thereto so long as the Corporation remains in existence. 
 
 Your committee concluded that a boulder with a tablet 
 inscription placed thereon would be most appropriate and 
 least expensive. At this time, May 2d, there remained but 
 a little more than a month in which to complete the work 
 before this meeting. 
 
 It is very gratifying to announce that it is complete in 
 every detail and our artist has an excellent photograph of 
 the memorial here for your inspection. Your committee 
 believe this memorial worthy of those it is intended to com- 
 memorate and of the Society that erected it. 
 
 The total cost, including all expenses connected there- 
 with, has been SI 86. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 L. W. Bartlett, Chairman of the Committee. 
 
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Boulder Erected by the Society 
 
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OUR PILGRIM ANCESTORS AND THE DEBT 
 WE OWE THEM 
 
 Address delivered on June 16, 1910, before the Society of Descendants 
 
 of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass. 
 
 By Marian Longfellow 
 
 We are gathered here today, members of the Bartlett 
 family, descendants of Robert Bartlet and Mary Warren, 
 his wife, to tender them our affectionate remembrance and 
 to renew ties of friendship. 
 
 It matters not what may be our name today or what other 
 blood may run in our veins beside that of the Bartlet- Warren 
 blood, for we are all of Pilgrim stock and we are here on this 
 special day to honor this line. 
 
 For the short time I shall address you I ask you to consider 
 the subject of " Our Pilgrim Ancestors and the Debt We Owe 
 Them." 
 
 It was no hazard that brought the Pilgrim to New Eng- 
 land, but the unerring hand of Providence willing that they, 
 truly the chosen people of that generation, should come to 
 the shores of New England rather than, as was first planned, 
 to that of Virginia. 
 
 Let us consider the Pilgrim collectively before we turn to 
 any one family. 
 
 It has been said, and justly so, that "In the cabin of the 
 Mayflower the Pilgrims created a government founded upon 
 the eternal truth of the divine rights of humanity, and not 
 upon the baseless assumption of the divine rights of kings." 
 
 In the common use of the terms " pilgrim " and " puritan " 
 there has been until within a comparatively recent date, much 
 confusion and a very hazy conception has remained in the 
 minds of many as to wherein that difference lay. 
 
 Defining the term " pilgrim," one author says: 
 
 " The Pilgrims comprised all members of the Separatists' church of 
 Leyden who voted for the migration to America, whether they were able 
 to go there themselves or not; together with such others as joined their 
 church from England. Membership, intended or actual, in the Pilgrim 
 church was the first qualification; emigration to New England was the 
 second. This membership included the Rev. John Robinson and family, 
 who were unable to leave Leyden. Also thirty-five members of the Ley- 
 den church, Leyden, Holland, arriving in Plymouth, New England, in 
 the Fortune in November of 1621 and sixty who arrived in the Ann (of 
 whom our Robert Bartlet was one) and the Little James in August, 1623; 
 the thirty-five with their families who arrived in the Mayflower s second 
 voyage, in August, 1629, and the sixty who arrived in the Handmaid in 
 May, 1630. It excluded all members of the Pilgrim church who had no 
 wish to go to America; all hired men who went out in the Mayflower and 
 did not become members of the church in the Old Colony. So we see 
 that all the Mayflower passengers were not Pilgrims." 
 
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Dr. Alexander Young says: 
 
 "Those who came in the first three ships, the Mayflower, December, 
 1620, the Fortune, November, 1621, the Ann and the Little James, August, 
 1623, are distinctly called the Old Comers or Forefathers, although between 
 1620 and 1640 upward of 22,000 Puritans sailed from the English and 
 Dutch ports." 
 
 Here we find Dr. Young classing them all as Puritans, 
 which is a mistake. 
 
 William Griffis says: 
 
 " The Pilgrims separated from the church and state. They believed 
 in the right and power of Christian people to govern themselves, and 
 they believed this when it was dangerous, even in England, to broach 
 such an idea. They were hunted out of their land into the Dutch 
 Republic." 
 
 Another historian says: 
 
 " Many of them were men of education and rank; eminently free 
 from the low and degrading vices of the statesmen of that day; bowed 
 the knee to none but God." 
 
 It is this selfsame spirit that we see in a marked degree 
 in the better type of the New Englander of today. The 
 courage of his convictions and the strength to assert and main- 
 tain what he believes to be right in the face of every obstacle. 
 It was this unflinching spirit; this placing of right before 
 every other consideration; this self-abnegation that enabled 
 our ancestors to place New England in what is now the fore- 
 front of all that makes for the betterment of this country and 
 this age. 
 
 The president of one of our New England colleges said, 
 at a banquet given by the Society of Mayflower Descend- 
 ants of Massachusetts several years ago, that it is to the 
 descendants of the Pilgrim and the Puritan that New England 
 must look for power to right the political abuses of the day. 
 
 Of the Pilgrim it has been said that " the Log of the May- 
 flower," as many persons persist in calling Bradford's Journal, 
 which was taken from the Old South Meeting-House at 
 Boston, during the Revolution, and carried to England by 
 the British, but restored to us in 1889 by England, was the 
 Book of Genesis in the history of Massachusetts. 
 
 And here let me speak of the belief, so hard to combat, 
 that the Pilgrims came to this new world primarily for the 
 right to worship God as they chose. That might apply to 
 the Puritan; but not to the Pilgrim; but it seems to be a 
 fixed idea in the heads of many. The Pilgrim had religious 
 freedom in Holland; he was not compelled to come to Amer- 
 ica to worship according to his own dictates. 
 
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The Pilgrims had another and a very urgent reason for 
 striking out into a new country and being alone as to race. 
 They saw their daughters and sons intermarrying with the 
 people of Holland; they feared that in time the good old 
 English blood of which they were so justly proud, would 
 dwindle to a mere thread to be swallowed up eventually in 
 that of the foreigner. Therefore, to preserve their nationality 
 pure and unmixed and to bring their children up true to that 
 blood they sought the new world. 
 
 This is the side of the question which is lost sight of often, 
 indeed generally. 
 
 Now that we have considered the stock from which Rob- 
 ert Bartlet and his wife sprung, for I think we should remem- 
 ber the Pilgrim Mothers just as much as the Pilgrim Fathers, 
 let us turn our attention to the Bartlet family and the descend- 
 ants of the man and woman whom we honor today. Their 
 children are we, and across the centuries that spread between, 
 our thoughts turn lovingly today. 
 
 The name of Bartlet now generally, though not always 
 spelled with two t's, has ever been an honored one in his- 
 tory, and that of Warren we know came from the highest 
 rank, being traced back to William I of England, known as 
 William the Conqueror. 
 
 You need no word of mine to testify to the positions of 
 honor and trust held by many of the name of Bartlet. Our 
 first ancestor of the name, who came over in the good ship 
 Ann in August of 1623, has a long line of whom, could he 
 know them, he might well feel proud. To literature, to sci- 
 ence, and to the professions has his blood been given. The 
 great-grandson of Robert Bartlet, Samuel Bartlett, was the 
 great-grandfather of the poet Longfellow, who is as much 
 loved for the beauty and purity of his life as for his 
 genius. The great-great-granddaughter of Robert Bartlet, 
 through another branch of the Bartlets, was Elizabeth Bart- 
 let, wife of General Peleg W T adsworth of Revolutionary fame. 
 She shared his camp life whenever possible, and her first 
 child, a son, died an infant in the camp at Dorchester Heights 
 previous to the evacuation of Boston by the British. The 
 courage and resource of Elizabeth (Bartlet) Wadsworth equalled 
 that of her gallant husband; she was with him when he was 
 captured by the British, after an attack wherein he fought 
 at great odds for his life, but where he was taken prisoner 
 after being wounded and was carried to Fort George at Cas- 
 tine, Me. Her comfort and cheering words upheld him as 
 he was taken from her sight. 
 
 Another notable Bartlet was Dr. Josiah Bartlet, of New 
 Hampshire, a physician of high standing; a signer of the 
 
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Declaration of Independence; a delegate to the Continental 
 Congress, and who had the honor of placing his name just 
 after that of the President to the paper voting in favor of 
 that document. 
 
 A poet has said of him : 
 
 " Amid those picked and chosen men, 
 
 Than his, who here first drew his breath, 
 No firmer fingers held the pen, 
 That wrote for liberty or death." 
 
 Another son of this line was Thomas Bartlet, who died 
 in 1805, who had been a lieutenant-colonel under General 
 Stark and who was at the surrender of Burgoyne. In later 
 days he was speaker of the New Hampshire House of Repre- 
 sentatives. 
 
 There was John Russell Bartlett, born at Providence, 
 R. I., on October 23, 1815, whom President Zachary Taylor 
 appointed to fix the boundary line between the United States 
 and Mexico, and who was Secretary of State of Rhode Island 
 from 1855-1872. 
 
 It is said that in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65, 
 there were eighty-six Bartletts among the commissioned 
 officers. Of these, William Francis Bartlet, the youngest 
 major-general in the Civil War, attained that honor when but 
 twenty-five years of age, rising, we are told, from the ranks. 
 A statue was erected in his memory in 1904. 
 
 Another noted name is that of Truman H. Bartlett, the 
 well-known sculptor; also Samuel Colcord Bartlett, presi- 
 dent of Dartmouth College in 1877. 
 
 It is likely that I have not mentioned one-twentieth of the 
 good men and true who have been an honor to the name. 
 Judge, then, if you have not reason to be proud of the name of 
 Bartlet. 
 
 Our Pilgrim Ancestors ! what do we not owe them ! 
 Their clean, true outlook upon life which should be, and I 
 trust is ours. Their unfailing response to the " duty nearest 
 at hand," without which response the duties that may fol- 
 low can not be adequately or acceptably performed; the 
 throwing into the crucible of the common good of the Col- 
 ony all that duty demanded; the unwavering will that or- 
 dained that all things necessary to the welfare and existence 
 of the colony should be accomplished. 
 
 Theirs was the struggle, the privation, the suffering of 
 the pioneer; ours the harvest that has grown from their 
 efforts. 
 
 It is particularly fitting, then, that those of us present 
 should set apart one day of the year on which to observe 
 
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these exercises of appreciation of our Pilgrim ancestry in 
 general, and of our Robert Bartlet ancestry in particular. 
 
 Many of us represent, doubtless, still other descent from 
 that little band of Mayflower passengers, but today we are 
 all Bartlets. 
 
 John Alden has his Society of " The Alden Kindred of 
 America," in which Priscilla is an honored figure. The 
 Bradford family, the Brewster family, the Winslow family, 
 and others call to their children to come, at least once a year, 
 to their home in Plymouth by the sea. And so we come to 
 Plymouth, Mass., to walk through her quaint streets and to 
 people them in imagination with the men and women who 
 first trod these shores. Yet the Plymouth of today would 
 be a vast and unknown region to the Pilgrims of 1620-30. 
 
 Vivacious Priscilla Molines, the Huguenot damsel, whose 
 birthright has been taken from her in the inscription on the 
 memorial shaft in this town; and fair Mary Chilton; grave 
 John Alden, and fiery Myles Standish; Elder Brewster, 
 with locks of snow, and the good Governor Bradford, all 
 seem to greet us as we wander through the old town. That 
 they were sad or sour of demeanor I deny. Nor did they 
 confine the colors of their garments to blacks and greys and 
 dull browns. 
 
 We know now that the term " sad " as applied to color 
 meant dark and did not mean what we have supposed earlier. 
 It comprised the rich dark purples and red, also. 
 
 We hear, frequently, that this or that article " came over 
 in the Mayflower , " (I know that has a familiar sound to you !) 
 but such articles as our forefathers and foremothers brought 
 with them to the new world were, as a general thing, such as 
 the average emigrant of decent standing would have been 
 likely to bring. The very simplicity of their surroundings 
 and their possessions brought them into closer touch with 
 Nature and God. And so it is well that we should make a 
 pilgrimage to Plymouth by the sea, at least once a year, that 
 we may carry back to our busy lives the memory of that sim- 
 plicity and of something sweeter and truer and purer than 
 comes into our daily lot the rest of the year. 
 
 Particularly is it right that we should seek to honor our 
 Pilgrim ancestors rather than to make cheap capital for our- 
 selves by claims of " uncommon descent " or personal glori- 
 fication, and herein lies our debt. 
 
 Let us remember 
 
 " They that on glorious ancestry enlarge 
 Proclaim their debt instead of their discharge. 
 
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It is not sufficient that we should spread abroad that you, 
 and you, and I have descended from good and noble men and 
 women; we must strive to uphold, as a beacon, the lives of 
 the Pilgrims, that like unto the rays streaming from the 
 lighthouse set upon the rock, pouring their glory over the tur- 
 bulent waves and guiding into safe harbor some storm-tossed 
 passenger, others may profit therby. 
 
 Our good old English ancestry is something of which to 
 be proud. The solid qualities of body and mind inherited 
 therefrom shall stand us in good stead, as they have always 
 done, in time of stress. 
 
 The descendants of Robert Bartlet and Mary Warren, his 
 wife, must not be slaves nor ne'er-do-wells, nor criminal in 
 any respect. Noblesse oblige, that grand old French motto 
 (and Mary Warren also was of French descent) is as incum- 
 bent upon us today as in the days of the early struggles of our 
 Pilgrim ancestors. 
 
 The ermine is said to die if aught soils its fur. The 
 descendants of the Pilgrim should rather welcome death than 
 dishonor of any description. 
 
 I know this may be considered a strained view; that it 
 may be said that we cannot live in this w r orld as if we were 
 already inhabitants of heaven; but, believe me, the paltry 
 concessions to self-gain, self-advancement, self in any of its 
 aspects, is fatal to the spirit of the Pilgrim. His was not to 
 be the " fulness of the earth "; rather was he, the Pilgrim 
 in fact as well as in name, one to whom of necessity must 
 come hardship, endurance, lack of luxury; to whom life was 
 but a sojourn at best, and rest a far-aw T ay goal. 
 
 What is our Debt ? I take it to be that we must not only 
 hold their example and lives up to the emulation of others 
 but that we must so live, ourselves, that we may be worthy 
 of the inestimable gift of our Pilgrim heritage ! 
 
 And especially do we owe a duty toward the " stranger 
 within our gates " ; to those other emigrants to our land, igno- 
 rant, illiterate, stolid, seeking the betterment of their former 
 lot from a selfish viewpoint only; susceptible to influence, 
 however, whether good or bad, and whose children are to 
 bear the responsibilities as well as the joys of American citi- 
 zenship in the future. 
 
 Methinks could Robert Bartlet speak to us in the flesh 
 today he would ask that we, secure in our own honored de- 
 scent from men and women of sterling virtue, should hold out 
 a helping hand to these emigrants of a later day who come to 
 us in poverty and rags; in ignorance, and, alas, ofttimes in 
 vice; he would admonish us to polish the rough stone as does 
 the lapidary until what at first seemed low and vile and use- 
 
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less shall become a jewel worthy the setting in the diadem of 
 our glorious republic. 
 
 Consider well if this be not one way of paying in part the 
 Debt we owe our Pilgrim ancestors? The things of this earth, 
 the things most valued in this day of material objects — 
 wealth, position, consideration, preferment, all sink into 
 insignificance when we look back to the Pilgrim to whom all 
 these things were as dross compared with the dignity, the 
 beauty, the holiness of effort to live an upright life acceptable 
 to his Maker, and to be a helper to well-living rather than to 
 be a cumberer of the earth. 
 
 Through all time that solitary but dignified figure of the 
 Pilgrim stands forth an object of veneration and emulation 
 and shall so stand while this Republic lives. 
 
 He, together with his brother, the Puritan, framed the 
 laws that have made these New England states of ours fa- 
 mous for good government and equity. The country town- 
 meeting, said to be the best form of government in the world, 
 was brought by the Pilgrim from Holland and earlier had 
 flourished in Germany. In the " town-meeting " every abuse 
 is aired and every member present has the opportunity to 
 place his grievance before the tribunal. There was no " one- 
 man power" there, but the right and the power of individual 
 conception of duty, and from that but one step to its enforce- 
 ment. 
 
 One of the most startling features of the day is the sudden 
 rise to power of the foreign element, and the shameless traffic 
 in offices and emoluments. A rise to power brought about by 
 the excess of votes among those who are not fit as yet for the 
 franchise; and, I regret deeply to say, by the supineness of 
 the better class element on " voting day." 
 
 Boston, the heart of the former Puritan settlement, has 
 fallen a prey to the invader and that because of his numbers 
 and his determination to attain power no matter by what 
 means, and to hold it, regardless of the rights and best inter- 
 ests of the whole; a determination all the stronger because 
 balked in his native land. I do not care what his nativity, 
 the uneducated but rapacious emigrant is a menace to Amer- 
 ican interest and American life. 
 
 It becomes us, then, to strive earnestly to educate, in every 
 direction possible, the youthful immigrant in patriotism and 
 love of the new country which has received him, irrespective 
 of ties across the sea. He must be taught and must learn that 
 having chosen the United States as his own he may not 
 scheme and connive and seek the interest of the country he 
 has forsaken, though it be the land of his birth, to the detri- 
 ment of the one he has adopted. That his first loyalty is to 
 
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these United States; that he can not serve two masters; that 
 to antagonize and attempt to embroil this country with others 
 for the benefit of his former country may not and shall not be 
 permitted ; that he must accord to other immigrants the rights 
 he would often reserve for himself alone. To accomplish this, we 
 must reach the children, for the older men and women, who will 
 in time pass away, have come to this country purely for self- 
 aggrandizement and nothing else ; while their offspring may be 
 taught the pure love of country and honor for the flag under 
 which they live, that no other sentiment can equal. This, 
 surely, is a part of the Debt we owe our Pilgrim ancestors. 
 
 But while we are keen to note the plants that should flour- 
 ish in our neighbor's garden we must see to it that we keep 
 our own in order. We must weed out all that is un-American ; 
 we must trim our hedges so that they shall present an orderly 
 appearance, bearing no ill-judged criticisms of others to offend; 
 no preaching to others what w^e do not ourselves follow. 
 
 A pure democracy — "the greatest good for the great- 
 est number," should be our motto, and in this I do not refer 
 to politics, but to ethics. There was no favor shown the 
 rich as against the poor among our Pilgrim ancestors. It was 
 the man, not his worldly possessions that decided their valua- 
 tion of him. But they required that he be a man, a freeman, 
 in order to be a church-member and an office-holder. Thus 
 they differentiated between the mental attainments, and the 
 sodden indifference of the one who had no aim, no incentive 
 but self-gain. They desired no weaklings; no incompetents 
 in their fold; theirs was the gauge of moral endowment, not 
 the possession of temporal wealth. Therefore they never 
 fell into the error of worshipping Baal and never served their 
 God with one hand and the world with the other. 
 
 Many jests are told at the expense of the Pilgrim and Plym- 
 outh Rock. 
 
 " Plymouth Rock " w r as a term cited as a quality which 
 would bear any amount of hard usage and come out intact. 
 Years ago it was adopted by a firm of tailors and was ap- 
 plied to a certain garment which was warranted to stand any 
 amount of wear and tear. The boy who was provided with 
 a pair of " Plymouth Rocks " might defy Fate and, what was 
 more to the point, an irate father with impunity ! 
 
 " Plymouth Rock " was also given to a special breed of 
 fowls. This reminds me of the story of the man who, dining 
 at a certain restaurant in one of our large cities, called the 
 waiter to him and said: 
 
 " What kind of chicken do you call this, waiter? " 
 
 " That, sir," replied the waiter, " is I believe a 'Plymouth 
 Rock'." 
 
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The man said: " Ah, I'm glad it's got some historic inter- 
 est. I thought it was an ordinary cobblestone ! " 
 
 And, again, to that story which ex- Representative Samuel 
 Powers of Massachusetts is so fond of telling, and of which I 
 shall quote only the concluding portion, as you have doubt- 
 less heard it. 
 
 An inquisitive Yankee was asking innumerable questions 
 of a somewhat pompous Southerner who had answered the ques- 
 tions to a considerable extent. After a while the Virginian 
 felt that he had given the Yankee all the data concerning his 
 own private affairs which his questioner had any right to 
 know, if not more, said: 
 
 " And where, sah, may I ask, do you come from? " 
 
 " Plymouth, Massachusetts," was the reply. 
 
 " Well, sah," responded the Southerner w T ith considerable 
 feeling, " if Plymouth Rock had landed upon the Pilgrims, 
 instead of the Pilgrims upon Plymouth Rock, it would have 
 been better for the world in general and for the South in 
 particular." 
 
 Which shows that there are conflicting views both as to 
 the Pilgrim and Plymouth Rock. 
 
 I am not sure of the exact w r ords of this story, as I heard 
 Mr. Powers tell it some years ago, but I have retained a re- 
 membrance of the essential points and I have no doubt that 
 he is telling the anecdote still ! 
 
 If the ever-increasing evils of the age; the sale of offices; 
 the bribery of a legislator; the purchase of a judiciary; the 
 crushing out of the lives of the poor; the speculation in the 
 necessities of life, such as w T heat, milk, and other articles, 
 is to be successfully fought, it must be by the renewed spirit 
 of the Pilgrims; it must be an outgrowth of the ardor of jus- 
 tice that is a large ingredient of the blood of those ancestors of 
 ours now coursing through our veins. No people on the face 
 of the earth ever more fully demonstrated the fact that " Right 
 and one make a Majority," than did our Pilgrim ancestors. 
 They never paused to consider whether any act they con- 
 templated was " politic"; whether they would be in the end 
 a gainer or loser by it. No; their first thought was "is it 
 right?" That proven to their satisfaction all else w r as of 
 little moment. 
 
 You may say, " But they had so little temptation to do 
 wrong. " How may we judge their temptations? Tempta- 
 tion comes from within, not without, and the whole kingdom 
 of evil as well as of good is within each one of us. 
 
 The Pilgrim's safety lay in his determination to do " the 
 duty nearest him," as I have said, and after that all was clear. 
 
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Let us, then, as we gather here, today, resolve each one 
 to study more closely that lovely singleness of purpose evinced 
 by the Pilgrim, and of which our own Robert Bartlet was 
 an example, and we will find life in all its lines easier, simpler, 
 and more satisfying. 
 
 I fear I may have made my little talk more sombre than 
 the occasion deserved; and that where I should " have sung 
 a song," I have "preached a sermon"; but however that 
 may be, I trust that you will believe that I am entirely one with 
 you in your aims and wishes for the due appreciation of our 
 honored ancestors, Robert Bartlet and Mary Warren, his 
 wife, and for the continual well-being and closer friendship 
 of The Society of The Descendants of Robert Bartlet of 
 Plymouth, Mass. 
 
 Marian Longfellow. 
 
 FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING 
 
 Notice is herby given that the Fourth Annual Meeting 
 and Reunion of the Society of the Descendants of Robert 
 and Mary (Warren) Bartlet will be held in the Chapel of 
 the Methodist Church, corner of Court and Brewster Streets, 
 Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Saturday, August 12, 1911. 
 
 The chapel is only a short walk from the railroad station 
 and right on the electric car line, and will be open all day for 
 the convenience of those who attend. 
 
 The meeting will come to order at 10 a. in., for the trans- 
 action of business, as follows: 
 
 1. Opening Exercise. 
 
 2. Song, — " Summer is Here " /. W. Bischoff 
 
 Miss Mary A. Hopkins, Weymouth, Mass. 
 
 (Madame Barlow, of Boston, Accompanist.) 
 
 3. Roll Call of Members. 
 
 4. Reading of Secretary's Record of the Previous Meeting. 
 
 5. Reports of Officers and Committees. 
 
 6. Election of Officers. 
 
 7. New Business. 
 
 At 12 m. lunch will be served in Wesleyan Hall by the 
 Ladies' Aid Society of the Methodist Church — price per plate, 
 fifty cents. 
 
 The afternoon exercises will be held at the Memorial 
 Site, weather permitting; otherwise at the Chapel. Electric 
 cars will leave the Chapel at 1 p. m. 
 
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Program 
 
 Song — " The Golden Pathway " Hamilton Gray 
 
 Miss Mary A. Hopkins 
 A Paper — "The Ancestry of the Warrens," by the President, 
 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett of Hartford, Conn. 
 A Review of the History of the Society by the Historian, 
 
 Mrs. Marian Longfellow of Boston. 
 Short Addresses by — 
 
 Mrs. Flora S. Matthewson, of South Braintree, Mass. 
 Secretary of the Alden Kindred of America. 
 
 Mr. George Warren Tower, of South Boston, Mass. 
 
 President of the Tower Genealogical Society. 
 
 Rev. George A. Smith, of Boston, Mass. 
 
 Secretary of the American Society of Colonial Families. 
 
 Five-Minute Letters by Members. 
 
 Closing Song — " Home, Sweet Home " /. Howard Payne 
 Miss Mary A. Hopkins 
 
 Every descendant of Robert Bartlet, who can possibly 
 do so, is urged to be present this year. 
 
 Our program, both instructive and entertaining, is the 
 most complete of any we have ever been able to offer. 
 
 The place, the occasion, and the literary exercises, all 
 combine as never before to give inspiration to all who may 
 attend and make them feel, we think, that it was good to be 
 there. 
 
 Come. Invite your friends to come, and bring this pro- 
 gram with you. 
 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett, President. 
 
 Mrs. Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, Secretary. 
 
 Address of Welcome by the President 
 
 Members of the Bartlett Family and Friends: — I take pleas- 
 ure in welcoming you to this our Fourth Annual Reunion. 
 The question has recurred to me often during the past year, 
 why do we thus meet, and for what purpose? A very perti- 
 nent question, it seems to me. I do not believe that any of 
 us are here simply " Because we're here." The question, 
 like many others, is more easily asked than answered, there- 
 fore I will not take much of your time in attempting it, for 
 the reason we have others with us today who are much more 
 capable and will address you later. Several different motives 
 have probably actuated most of us present. For those 
 
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who have never before visited this, the most historic spot in 
 this broad land of ours, it is a magnet most powerful; and for 
 those who have been here many times, they do not seem to 
 tire, as witness the hundreds of visitors who annually make 
 their pilgrimage to this Mecca of New England, if not of 
 all America. To many others the social side is the great 
 attraction of this and similar gatherings, where those of kin- 
 dred blood may take a day or two of pleasure and relaxation 
 from the daily round of toil, which is the lot of most of us. 
 To clasp the hand, exchange salutations, and make the 
 acquaintance of those, who having descended from a common 
 ancestry, we meet here for the first time, and, alas, in too 
 many instances, for the last time, until we meet in that other 
 sphere beyond the transition which we call death. 
 
 Especially attractive should these reunions be to those 
 who can lay claim to such a heritage as has descended to us 
 all from the Pilgrims of the Mayflower, the Fortune, and the 
 Ann. But above and beyond and rooted far deeper in the 
 human breast than all the things I have mentioned, is the 
 spirit of patriotism. And, whether fully conscious of it or 
 not, it seems to me that patriotism is the underlying motive 
 that brings us together here, and the rock upon which the 
 foundation of the Bartlett and other kindred societies must 
 be built in order that they may endure. A patriotism that 
 shall preserve and hand down to our posterity that price- 
 less heritage which has been bequeathed to us. What, then, 
 becomes our duty that we may be honored by those who 
 come after us, even as we honor those who have gone before? 
 
 Every age and every generation have their work to do. 
 Superstition, bigotry, injustice, and wrong, still exist. Sel- 
 fishness and greed are yet the ruling passions of the world, 
 so that eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty. If there is 
 a person here who thinks if he had the opportunity, such as 
 came to his sires in the war for Independence, or the Civil 
 war, what a hero and patriot he would become, let me say 
 to that person, there are serious evils existing in this country 
 today that, unless checked, will slowly but surely undermine 
 and destroy this heritage of ours. There never was more 
 need of moral heroes and patriots in this Republic than at 
 the present moment. The opportunity is right at hand and 
 knocking at your door. Remember also that it requires 
 sterner stuff and more undaunted courage to be a moral 
 than a military, hero. The field of activity for military 
 heroes is limited, but for moral heroes it is world-wide. The 
 fields are white unto the harvest, but the reapers are few. 
 
 In conclusion, to impress upon your minds the thought I 
 have been trying to express, I will read a few lines culled 
 
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from one of James Russell Lowell's poems, entitled " A 
 Glance Behind the Curtain." 
 
 " New times demand new measures and new men ! 
 The world advances and in time outgrows 
 The laws that in our father's day were best ! 
 And doubtless after us, some purer scheme 
 Will be shaped out by wiser men than we, 
 Made wiser by the steady growth of truth. 
 
 We cannot hale Utopia on by force ! 
 
 But better almost be at work in sin, 
 
 Than in a brute inaction browse and sleep, 
 
 No man is born into the world whose work 
 
 Is not born with him ! there is always work, 
 
 And tools to work withal, for those who will, 
 
 And blessed are the horny hands of toil! 
 
 The busy world shoves angrily aside 
 
 The man who stands with arms akimbo set, 
 
 Until occasion tells him what to do ! 
 
 And he who waits to have his task marked out, 
 
 Shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled. 
 
 One age moves onward and the next builds up 
 Cities and gorgeous palaces where stood 
 The rude log huts of those who tamed the wild, 
 Rearing from out the forests they had felled, 
 The goodly framework of a fairer state, 
 Let us speak plain ! there is more force in names 
 Than most men dream of ! and a lie may keep 
 Its throne a whole age longer if it skulk 
 Behind the shield of some fair seeming name. 
 Let us call tyrants TYRANTS and maintain 
 That only freedom comes by grace of God, 
 And all that comes not by his grace must fall ! 
 For men in earnest have no time to waste 
 In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth." 
 
 Record of the Third Bartlett Reunion, June 16, 1910 
 
 The Third Annual Reunion of the Society of the Descend- 
 ants of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass., was held in the 
 Chapel of the Methodist Church, corner of Court and Brew- 
 ster Streets, Plymouth, Mass., on Thursday, June 16, 1910. 
 A cloudy sky with a gentle rain part of the day, kept many 
 from attending, but it failed to dampen the enthusiasm of 
 the members who did assemble, nearly fifty in number. 
 
 At 11 a. m. the meeting was called to order, the presi- 
 dent, Mr. Lucius Warren Bartlett, of Hartford, Conn., pre- 
 siding. With a few words of greeting he welcomed members 
 and friends to this our " Home Coming to the old Historic 
 Town of Plymouth; the Parent Homestead of our Bartlett 
 Family." 
 
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Miss Isabelle M. Bartlett was appointed to assist the 
 Secretary, by attending to the registering of members in the 
 Journal and the collection of the yearly dues. 
 
 The Record of the previous meeting, August 27, 1909, by 
 Mrs. Eugenia F. Bartlett Lovell, Secretary, pro tern, was 
 read by your Secretary, Mrs. Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, and 
 accepted. The Treasurer's report was also submitted and 
 accepted. 
 
 Envelopes with blanks were distributed to the members 
 for contributions or pledges toward defraying the expenses 
 of incorporation, securing the Memorial Tablet, etc. The 
 sum of S42.00 was contributed and S5.00 pledged at that time. 
 
 A roll-call of members succeeded these reports, after 
 which the officers for the ensuing year were elected. 
 
 With one exception the officers of the previous year were 
 unanimously re-elected, as follows: 
 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett, Hartford, Conn., President. 
 
 Mercer V. Tilson, South Hanson, Mass., First Vice-Presi- 
 dent. 
 
 Charles H. Bartlett. Dorchester, Mass., Second Vice- 
 President. 
 
 Mrs. Ermina B. Suhanek, of Holyoke, Mass., Secretary 
 and Treasurer. 
 
 Mrs. Marian Longfellow, Brookline, Mass., Historian. 
 
 Reference was made to some important maps executed 
 by Mr. Mercer Y. Tilson, our First Vice-President, showing 
 that portion of the town of Plymouth where Robert Bartlet 
 owned land and lived. 
 
 Mr. D. S. Burrell, of Brockton, Mass., had some fine photo- 
 graphs of the memorial tablet for sale (two styles with a postal 
 card). 
 
 Xo further business being presented at 12.30 the meeting 
 adjourned for dinner, which was served by the Ladies' Aid 
 Association of the Methodist Church, in Wesleyan Hall. 
 After our appetities has been appeased by a bountiful colla- 
 tion and all seemed in good spirits, the clouds were dispelled 
 long enough for our artist to secure a good photograph ol 
 the members present, on the lawn in front of the church. 
 
 At 2 p. m. all were assembled in the church. The Presi- 
 dent introduced Mrs. Marian Longfellow, niece of the poet 
 Longfellow and a descendant of Robert Bartlet, who gave 
 the address of the occasion. Her subject, " Our Pilgrim 
 Ancestors and the Debt We Owe Them," was most thoroughly 
 and skilfully expounded and every one must have felt re- 
 warded for journeying to the meeting by listening to that 
 alone. The manuscript she very kindly presented to the 
 
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Society and the address with newspaper accounts of the Reun 
 ion is appended to this report. 
 
 A report of the President in regard to having the Society 
 incorporated was made as follows: 
 
 " At the Reunion held at Manomet, August 27, 1909, a 
 letter was read from Mr. Charles H. Warren, of Providence, 
 R. I., granting us the privilege of erecting a memorial to mark 
 the site of the home of Robert and Mary (Warren) Bartlet, 
 and it was voted at this meeting to proceed to erect the me- 
 morial. 
 
 In opening the negotiations with Mr. Warren about the 
 land, he requested that the Society be incorporated, preferring 
 to do business with a legally constituted body. In compliance 
 therewith the necessary steps were taken, a form of agreement 
 prepared, and on December 11, 1909, the signers of the agree- 
 ment, upon proper notice, met at the Parker House in Bos- 
 ton, and completed the work by adopting a set of by-laws, 
 electing officers, as required by the Statutes, and on Decem- 
 ber 30, 1909, the charter was granted. Accordingly all that 
 remains to be done is for the Society to vote to dissolve the 
 old Society and accept the Charter." 
 
 This report was accepted and in accordance therewith it 
 was voted to dissolve the old Society and accept the Charter. 
 
 Thanks were extended to Mrs. Longfellow for her very 
 able and interesting paper. 
 
 After the address, remarks were made by the President, 
 Second Vice-President, and others. Before closing a vote of 
 thanks was given to Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet, the retiring Histo- 
 rian, for her faithful research in the interest of the Society, 
 also to the church committee, and the Ladies' Aid for the 
 use of the church and their fine entertainment. The meet- 
 ing adjourned. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Mrs. Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, Secretary. 
 
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Treasurer's Report for 1910-11 
 
 
 Receipts 
 
 
 
 Membership fees, at .50 . 
 
 Contributions toward expense of Memorial Tablet : 
 
 Mr. Lucius Warren Bartlett . $50.00 
 
 Mrs. Lucius Warren Bartlett 
 
 
 
 50.00 
 
 Mrs. Ermina B. Suhanek . 
 
 
 
 50.00 
 
 Mrs. Marian Longfellow- 
 
 
 
 
 5.00 
 
 Mrs. Moses Simmons 
 
 
 
 
 2.00 
 
 Mrs. Martha B. Morton 
 
 
 
 
 1.00 
 
 Mr. Ephraim D. Bartlett 
 
 
 
 
 1.00 
 
 Mrs. Mary Bird Keith 
 
 
 
 
 1.00 
 
 Mrs. Anna B. Johnson 
 
 
 
 
 1.00 
 
 Mr. Roland F. Tillson 
 
 
 
 
 1.00 
 
 Mrs. Flora B. Ulrich 
 
 
 
 
 1.00 
 
 Miss Helen Bird 
 
 
 
 
 1.00 
 
 Mr. W. Ellery Bird . 
 
 
 
 
 .50 
 
 Mr. Henry M. Bird 
 
 
 
 
 .50 
 
 Miss Lucy Kilbourne 
 
 
 
 
 .50 
 
 Mrs. Susan J. Hopkins 
 
 
 
 
 .50 
 
 Miss Mary A. Hopkins 
 
 
 
 
 .50 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth B. Pratt 
 
 
 
 
 .50 
 
 Mrs. Madeline B. Hoyt 
 
 
 
 .50 
 
 A Friend 
 
 
 
 
 .50 
 
 $47.50 
 
 $168.00 $168.00 
 
 $215.50 
 
 91.89 
 
 $307.39 
 
 Total receipts .... 
 
 Balance due Treasury 
 
 Expenditures 
 To Bartlett Engraving Co. 
 
 Smith, Lindsley Co. for 300 circular letters 
 " " 550 copies roster { 
 " " " " 550 notice slips } 
 
 " " 300 letter-heads . 
 " " 600 note circulars 
 " " 600 4-pp. programs 
 Mrs. E. B. Suhanek, envelopes and postage 
 Smith, Lindsley Co., 300 letter-heads 
 L. W. Bartlett for guarantee to Ladies' Aid 
 vice 
 " recording deed 
 " Secretary's supplies . 
 " envelopes and postage 
 " Historian's expenses from 
 
 yoke and return 
 " expense of mailing list 
 " envelopes and postage 
 Total expenses 
 Deficit at last Report 
 
 $307 . 39 
 Itemized bills approved by the Executive Committee accompany this 
 Report. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Ermina B. Suhanek, Treasurer. 
 
 Note.— The greater part of this deficit of $91.89 is due to the sending out of the Ros- 
 ter, with a letter asking for contributions toward the expense of the tablet. From the four 
 hundred sent out we received two responses of fifty cents each. The foregoing contribu- 
 tions were made previous to the sending out of the letters. 
 
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 $2.31 
 
 
 5.00 
 
 
 30.00 
 
 
 3.50 
 
 
 5.00 
 
 
 8.00 
 
 
 3.14 
 
 
 3.50 
 
 and janitor ser- 
 
 
 7.50 
 
 
 .65 
 
 
 6.50 
 
 
 12.82 
 
 Boston to Hol- 
 
 
 
 4.80 
 
 
 1.20 
 
 
 9.84 
 
 
 $103.76 
 
 
 203.63 
 
SOCIETY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF 
 
 ROBERT BARTLET OF 
 
 PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 Historian's Address, August 12, 1911 
 
 History keeps alive the Nation, the State, and the Fam- 
 ily. When a nation declines, History pauses, and when a 
 nation dies, History no longer attends. 
 
 We may, therefore, grasp the power and the worth of a 
 people by what History holds aloft upon its scroll concerning 
 that people. It behooves us, then, as a Society bound 
 together by ties of common ancestry, — Robert Bartlet and 
 Mary Warren, his wife, — to keep ever before our eyes the 
 tale told at fireside hearths and by the softened glow of the 
 candle, in years gone by. History has enrolled the name of 
 Bartelot, later grown into Bartlet and Bartlett, on the annals 
 of glorious deeds. Adam Bartelot, our first ancestor, 
 came into England with William the Conqueror. In the fif- 
 teenth century a castle was added as crest for valor of John 
 Bartelot in capturing the tower of Fontenoy, and he was al- 
 lowed ever after to use that tower as a crest. To this was added 
 another crest, in the sixteenth century — a swan, in token of 
 the right to keep swans, those graceful and beautiful creatures, 
 on the classic and memorable stream, the Avon, by one of 
 the Bartlets. 
 
 The first Bartelot lives in the reflection of brave and gal- 
 lant deeds; the record of the man for whom our Society is 
 named and the Society itself must hold to the hand of His- 
 tory " lest we forget " and, mayhap, be forgotten ! 
 
 The deeds of Robert Bartlet were not heralded like those 
 of his ancestors, John Bartelot, by blare of trumpet or by 
 outburst of applause. Robert Bartlet walked in quieter 
 ways, though not less heroic, for he was one of the " Builders " 
 of a new nation and was destined to mold the opinions of his 
 day. 
 
 We, his descendants, gathered together first on Thursday, 
 August 13, 1908, at 10 a. m., in the town of Brockton, Mass., 
 and the first meeting was called for the " descendants of Ben- 
 jamin Bartlett, who settled in Stoughton, Mass., about 
 1750." 
 
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It was through the instrumentality of a descendant of 
 that Benjamin Bartlet son of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett, that this Society became a living thing. 
 The call to this meeting was issued from Hartford, Conn., on 
 July 10, 1908. 
 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett, of Hartford, Conn., our honored 
 President, and the strong tower of reliance to this Society, 
 was desirous to honor his own line, that of Joseph, and thus 
 he called the meeting in that form. Later he saw that the 
 Society must go back to the fountain head in America, and 
 the Society became not the society of the descendants of this 
 or that son of the original emigrant but the society of the 
 descendants of the man who was the first of his line to come 
 to the new w^orld. 
 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett is a very modest as w T ell as a very 
 energetic man, and it will be a trial to him to be compelled 
 to listen to wmat I shall have to say to you concerning him a 
 little later on, for he shuns encomium and seeks not to vaunt his 
 own good deeds, but rather to cover them from sight. But 
 with the duties and responsibilities of his position as the head 
 of such a Society as this comes a certain publicity that he 
 may not escape. Of him and of his work this paper will 
 contain a record. 
 
 We find him in the picture which bears the following 
 printed explanation underneath it: — "First annual outing 
 at Brockton, Mass., August 13, 1908, of the Society of the 
 Descendants of ROBERT BARTLET, First, of Plymouth, 
 who came over in the Ship Ann in 1623." We find him, not 
 in the foreground of this picture, but modestly at one side, 
 and the only " prominent " feature that shows what he has 
 done for the Society is his hands] good, firm, capable hands 
 that have held the rudder of the good ship " Robert Bartlet " 
 in its voyage so far, and which w r e hope may continue to so 
 hold it for many a year to come. 
 
 The photographer who shows up all our defects, or all 
 our points, with cruel distinctness has emphasized those 
 hands to an appalling extent physically; metaphorically 
 those hands have been large indeed in their power and help- 
 fulness toward the Society of the Descendants of Robert 
 Bartlet of Plymouth. 
 
 It becomes my duty to speak a little more of Manomet 
 than to merely mention it as the place where the Bartletts 
 held their second reunion. 
 
 Manomet is a charming seaside village in the historic old 
 town of Plymouth, one of the journals of the day tells us, and 
 White Horse Beach the finest of Plymouth's beaches, and but 
 a minute's walk from Hotel Crescent. 
 
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In 1628 Robert Bartlet married Mary Warren, a daughter 
 of the emigrant, Richard Warren, one of the signers of the 
 " Mayflower Compact," and thus two old families, both of 
 which entered England under the standard of William the 
 Conqueror, were united. Robert Bartlet lived at Mano- 
 met; here he held property and here he died. Only a short 
 walk across the fields, the paper goes on to relate, is the sec- 
 ond Bartlet house built by Robert's son, Joseph, in 1680. 
 It was at this meeting that the descendants of Robert Bartlet 
 voted to erect a suitable memorial on the spot where the 
 original Bartlet home once stood, at the foot of the Pine 
 Hills, near Eel River. I wonder how many persons who have 
 for years turned to " Bartlett's Familiar Quotations " for 
 information, know that its author, John Bartlett, was a 
 descendant of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth. John Bartlett 
 was of the eighth generation. 
 
 James Russell Lowell has written most beautifully of 
 June. He says, " What is so rare as a day in June ! " We 
 hope such days as June 16 and 17 of the year of Our Lord, 
 1910, wmen the third reunion was held, are rare ! In fact, 
 they may be said to have been positively raw ! Those of us 
 who did not get soaked with rain on June 16 at the Reunion 
 of the Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet of 
 Plymouth, finished the job at Hingham the next day at the 
 Reunion of the Tower Genealogical Society, with a devotion 
 to detail that was nothing short of pathetic ! Those who 
 attended both meetings, last year, will, I am sure, bear me out 
 in this statement. 
 
 Among the objects of interest seen at the third reunion 
 was an iron " fire-back," bearing the date of 1660. This 
 was imported from England, originallv by Joseph Bartlet 
 (2) son of Robert (1). 
 
 Joseph, who married in 1660, went to Manomet Ponds, 
 now South Plymouth, built a home, and settled there. In 
 1680 he built another home at Manomet, a view of which has 
 already been shown in this report, under the second reunion. 
 Sometime later the original house fell into the hands of Charles 
 Dana Bartlett (8) and Hosea C. Bartlett (8) sons of Charles 
 Bartlett (7) who lived in this house for fifty years. Sometime 
 later Hosea C. Bartlett tore down his half of the old home- 
 Stead, and Charles Dana Bartlett removed his half further 
 up the road, and it was still standing in June of 1910. It 
 was while removing the chimney that the fire-back was dis- 
 covered, and in 1880 sold by Charles Dana Bartlett to A. M. 
 Harrison, of the United States Coast Survey, and by him 
 bequeathed to Miss Sarah Achsah Bartlett of Plymouth. 
 
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In connection with Mr. Tilson's work it should be stated 
 that he contributed some important maps showing that por- 
 tion of Plymouth which Robert Bartlet owned when he 
 lived there. 
 
 The following is a copy of the letter which the Secretary- 
 Treasurer of the Society of the Descendants of Robert Bart- 
 let of Plymouth was instructed to write to Mr. Charles H. 
 Warren and Mr. Charles A. Stone. 
 
 Dear Sir: — The Secretary of the Society of the Descendants of Rob- 
 ert Bartlet, of Plymouth, Mass., has been instructed to write you a letter 
 of appreciation and thanks for conveying to them the right to erect a 
 Boulder with a suitable tablet thereon, on a lot of land one hundred feet 
 square, comprising the site of the home of Robert and Mary (Warren) 
 Bartlet, together with the " right of way " to and from said lot to the 
 Manomet road. 
 
 Such Memorial has been erected and a copy of this letter of acknowl- 
 edgement ordered placed upon the records of the Society. 
 Respectfully yours, 
 
 (Mrs.) Ermina Bartlett Suhanek. 
 
 In closing what may have been a long and somewhat 
 tedious report, let me voice the hope that we may so wield 
 the influence that is ours, and so cherish and amplify the com- 
 mendable virtues displayed in the lives of our ancestors that 
 our children's children, and their children's children in turn, 
 may point to this Society of the Descendants of Robert 
 Bartlet and Mary Warren, his wife, as having been a potent 
 factor in the preservation and conservation of all that should 
 be the true American's proudest boast — descent from honor- 
 able men and women; life that shall preserve the integrity 
 of that descent, and a hopeful looking forward to that work 
 being carried on by a posterity that shall in no whit lack the 
 virtues, the ideals, and the achievements of their Pilgrim, 
 their Puritan, and their Huguenot ancestry. 
 
 Marian Longfellow. 
 
 The Historian's address was followed by a paper by the 
 President, entitled: 
 
 THE WARRENS 
 
 By Lucius Warren Bartlett 
 
 Reviewing an article on Richard Warren, Twelfth Signer, 
 in a work entitled, " The Mayflower Signers," by Annie 
 Arnoux Haxtun. Reprinted from the Mail and Express, 
 New York, 1896. 
 
 Mrs. Haxtun's article is founded. I think, mainly (for no 
 authorities are quoted) on a chart of the Harlerian Society of 
 
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Visitations of the county of Devonshire, England, dated 1620, 
 which she has incorporated in her article. 
 
 She commences as follows: " Stern facts must be accepted 
 in writing history." This is a statement to which we will 
 all agree, therefore I will incorporate here the same chart of 
 the Harlerian Society. 
 
 Mrs. Haxtun proceeds thus: " Willing or otherwise the 
 records prove that Richard Warren the Pilgrim cannot be 
 placed in any certainty in regard to his family relations, 
 before his advent in the colonies as one of the Mayflower 
 Pilgrims. Certain it is " (please note what she says is cer- 
 tain) " that he came in this ship and was followed later on 
 by his wife Elizabeth and his daughters." 
 
 Mrs. Haxtun further says, " The confusion in regard to 
 him arises from the fact that there was another Warren in 
 the colonies and w r ho had the honor of being the son of Chris- 
 topher Warren, and the pleasure of having Elizabeth Jouat, 
 widow of ■ Marsh for his wife. 
 
 " There the story as told us of the Pilgrim ends, their 
 children being John and Richard." 
 
 Before proceeding further let us see what this chart of 
 Visitations says. Richard Warren (22) of Greenwich, in Kent, 
 son of Christopher (21) and Alice (Webb) Warren, married 
 
 Elizabeth Jouat relict of Marsh and had Richard and- 
 
 John. 
 
 Now, if stern facts must be accepted, as Mrs. Haxtun says, 
 it occurs to me that if Richard Warren the Pilgrim was not 
 the son of Christopher and Alice (Webb) Warren who as she 
 says " W r as followed later on by his wife Elizabeth and his 
 daughters," then his wife Elizabeth who came in the Ann 
 was not Elizabeth Jouat, widow of Marsh, who, accord- 
 ing to the chart, married Richard Warren (22) son of Chris- 
 topher, and further that the Richard Warren (22) w r ho did 
 marry Elizabeth Jouat must have been the other Warren in 
 the colonies, who had the honor of being the son of Christo- 
 pher and of having Elizabeth Jouat Marsh for his wife. 
 
 Mrs. Haxtun has thus created two families, Richard the 
 Pilgrim and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of somebody, who 
 came in the Ann with her daughters, and Richard Warren, 
 son of Christopher, who did marry Elizabeth Jouat relict 
 of Marsh and came to the colonies sometime and somewhere 
 and had two sons in England, John and Richard. 
 
 To quote further she says, " Richard and Joseph repeat 
 themselves in both families," (referring, I suppose, to the fam- 
 ilies just mentioned) " then there is Nathaniel's." 
 
 Again she says, " Why should he not have been Richard 
 W T arren recorded as sheriff of Coventry, 1610, having five 
 
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daughters to come out with their mother in the Ann, fits 
 into the necessary maturity." 
 
 It seems to me there is no maturity into which to fit, except 
 that of her own creation, which was wholly unnecessary. 
 
 Mrs. Haxtun says, " The two families of Warren unite 
 very naturally in the fact that the Pilgrim descendant, 
 General James Warren the Revolutionary officer and Presi- 
 dent of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, succeeded 
 General Joseph Warren of Bunker Hill fame, a member of 
 the other family in office. 
 
 Who were the two families of General James Warren and 
 General Joseph Warren? Davis's " Landmarks of Plym- 
 outh," gives the ancestry of James Warren (5) born in Plym- 
 outh, Mass., September 28, 1726, and married in 1754 Mercy 
 Otis, sister of James Otis, as James Warren (4), James Warren 
 (3), Nathaniel Warren (2), Richard Warren (1). The "His- 
 tory of Roxbury, Massachusetts," by Francis S. Drake, pub- 
 lished in 1878, gives the ancestry of General Joseph Warren 
 (5) of Bunker Hill fame as Joseph Warren (4), Joseph War- 
 ren (3), Peter Warren (2), John Warren (1), of Boston, who 
 came with Governor Winthrop in the Arbella and arrived in 
 Salem 12th June, 1630. 
 
 Mrs. Haxtun in conclusion says, " That the Warrens lead 
 straight to the Mayflower, though repetition of names in the 
 two families makes the title a very puzzling one, but there need 
 be no doubt of the claim presented by those bearing the name 
 of Otis, Winslow, Walker, Doty, Bradford, and many others 
 scattered the world over. Again the matter must be left to 
 the Society of Mayflower Descendants. Their good work 
 is progressing, fed by the knowledge gained from each seeker 
 for enrolment on the list of members." Mrs. Haxtun thus 
 practically admits she knew but little about it and leaves the 
 matter for others to settle. 
 
 Upon inquiring of a correspondent what the name of this 
 other Warren was who came to the colonies and had the 
 pleasure of having Widow Elizabeth Jouat Marsh for his 
 wife I received the following reply: " The name of the other 
 Warren was Richard. The authority states that he did not 
 come in the Mayflower, that he was the son of Christopher, 
 and strange to relate he and his wife died about the same 
 time and were of the same age as Richard the Pilgrim and 
 his wife." 
 
 To my mind it is a preposterous story that there were 
 two Richard Warrens of the same generation, who came to 
 the colonies about 1620, who had wives both of whose names 
 were Elizabeth, that the two Richards and the two Eliza- 
 beths died about the same time, and that Richard, the son 
 
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of Christopher and his wife, and Richard the Pilgirm and 
 his wife, were the same age when they died. 
 
 The coincidence, if it did happen, I predict never had its 
 parallel before and never will again in the history of the 
 world. 
 
 I desire now briefly to call your attention to what geneal- 
 ogists and others have written in relation to the Warrens to 
 show that there was not another Richard Warren named of 
 that generation except the Mayflower Pilgrim. The next 
 one mentioned was Richard, son of Nathaniel, who was son 
 of Richard the Pilgrim. We do not find another Richard 
 Warren until we come to the seventh generation from the 
 Mayflower; so much in relation to the confusion of names. 
 
 I quote first from a book entitled " The Wheelers and 
 The Warrens," compiled by Henry Warren Wheeler, Joel 
 Munson's Sons, publishers, Albany, N. Y., 1892: John War- 
 ren, Boston, Mass., 1630, through Ebenezer Warren, Leices- 
 ter, Mass., 1744. Emigrants of this name settled in Plym- 
 outh, Watertown, and Boston, but no proof has been dis- 
 covered of a connection between these families. 
 
 Richard was the first of the name to settle in America. 
 He came in the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth. John 
 came from England to Watertown in 1630 and another John 
 settled in Boston the same year. Among the Virginia col- 
 onists also there were two Warrens, Joseph, who came from 
 England in the ship Alice in 1635 and afterwards settled in 
 New England, and John, who came in 1635 in the Plaine 
 Joan. John Warren of Boston came with Governor Win- 
 throp in the Arbella and arrived in Salem 12th June, 1630. 
 The name John Warren appears in the first list of those who 
 took the Freeman's oath 18th of May, 1631. 
 
 This John was doubtless the father of Peter, whose eld- 
 est son was named John. Peter Warren, born in 1628, pur- 
 chased land in Boston 8th March, 1659 and is there styled 
 Mariner. He married Sarah, daughter of Robert Tucker 
 of Dorchester, 1st August, 1660. Children of Sarah and 
 Peter Warren: John, Joseph, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Robert, 
 Ebenezer, and Peter. Children of Peter and Hannah War- 
 ren (2d wife) : Hannah, Mary, Robert. Not a Richard in this 
 list! 
 
 " History of Roxbury, Massachusetts," by Francis S. 
 Drake, published 1878, page 212: The Warren estate was 
 bought in 1687 by Joseph Warren (3), Peter (2), John (1). 
 The W T arren homestead was built by Joseph Warren (3) in 
 1720. In November, 1805, it came into the possession of 
 Dr. John C. Warren (5), Joseph (4), Joseph (3), Peter (2), 
 John (1). 
 
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Joseph Warren (4) and Mary (Stevens) Warren had four 
 sons: Joseph (5), Samuel (5), Ebenezer (5), John (5). Three 
 of these sons, Joseph, Ebenezer, and John were in the battle 
 of Lexington. 
 
 Ebenezer W. Pierce in his book published 1874, " Histor- 
 ical, Genealogical, and Biographical," gives an account of the 
 genealogy of the Warrens, for which he says he was mainly 
 indebted to Dr. John C. Warren (5), being the result of his 
 labors while in Europe in 1851. Dr. John stated that John 
 Warren (22 on the chart), brother of Richard and son of 
 Christopher (21)- came to America. Referring to the book 
 " The Warrens and The Wheelers," we find three Johns men- 
 tioned: John came from England to Watertown in 1630 and 
 another John settled in Boston the same year, and John who 
 came in 1635 in the ship Plaine Joan and settled in Virginia. 
 I leave it for others to decide which of the three Johns, if 
 either, was John Warren (22) son of Christopher (21), who 
 Dr. John Warren (5) says came to America. 
 
 What I wish you in particular to observe is that in all 
 the history not a Warren by the name of Richard appears 
 except the Mayflower Pilgrim. 
 
 In conclusion, first let me call your attention to the 
 Richard and John on the chart, sons of Richard Warren and 
 Widow Elizabeth (Jouat) Marsh. Elizabeth Warren, wife of 
 Richard, died in Plymouth in 1673, aged ninety years, mak- 
 ing her forty years old when she came in the Ann with her 
 five daughters. The father came alone and three years later 
 the mother came with the five daughters. The sons Richard 
 and John must have been nearly twenty years old and re- 
 mained in England so far as any records show. 
 
 Therefore, I believe, not finding any record whatever to 
 the contrary that Richard Warren (22), the Mayflower Pil- 
 grim, was the son of Christopher Warren (21) and his wife 
 was Widow Elizabeth (Jouat) Marsh, and their children were 
 Richard, John, Mary, Ann, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Abigail, 
 born in England, and Nathaniel and Joseph, born in Plym- 
 outh, Mass. Nathaniel was married in 1645, and Joseph 
 was married in 1651. There is nothing to militate against this 
 statement. On the contrary all the circumstances and records 
 so far as I have been able to discover substantiate in the 
 most convincing manner the conclusion to which I have 
 arrived. 
 
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CHART 
 
 Copied from the Chart of the Harlerian Society of Visitations of the 
 county of Devonshire, England, date of 1620. 
 
 18 John Warren of Hedbury in the parish of Ashburton. 
 
 19 Christopher Warren son and heir. 
 
 20 William Warren married Ann daughter of Thomas Mable of 
 
 Carlstooke in Cornwall. 
 
 Children 
 
 21 Christopher Warren son and heir, married Alice, daughter of 
 
 Thomas Webb of Sidnam. 
 
 Children 
 
 22 Robert W T arren 1st son. Parson of Rame in Cornwall married 
 
 Margaret daughter of Peter Burgis of Peter Tavy in Corn- 
 wall. 
 
 22 John Warren. 
 
 22 Richard Warren of Greenwich in Kent. Merchant married 
 
 Elizabeth Jouatt and relict of Marsh, and had Richard 
 
 and John. 
 
 22 Christopher Warren of London married Sarah daughter of Nich. 
 Opie of Plymouth, England. 
 
 22 Thomas Warren. 
 
 22 William Warren of London merchant married Mary daughter of 
 Will Culling of Woodland. _ 
 
 22 Ann Warren married John Richards. 
 
 Ann, wife of William Warren (20) married (2d) W r ill Culling and had 
 
 children: 
 William Culling 
 John " 
 
 Richard " 
 
 Thomas " of London 
 22 Rev. Robert Warren 1st son Parson of Rame in Cornwall married 
 
 Mary daughter of Peter Burgis of Peter Tavy in Cornwall. 
 
 
 
 
 Children 
 
 Christopher 
 
 W 
 
 arren 
 
 1st son. 
 
 Robert 
 
 
 " 
 
 2d " 
 
 Thomas 
 
 
 " 
 
 3d " 
 
 Peter 
 
 
 " 
 
 4th " 
 
 Nathaniel 
 
 
 " 
 
 5th " 
 
 Margaret 
 
 
 " 
 
 1st daughter. 
 
 Anne 
 
 
 " 
 
 2d 
 
 According to the foregoing chart William Warren (22,) 
 grandson of William W 7 arren (20) and Ann, married Mary 
 Culling, granddaughter of Ann by her second husband, 
 Will Culling. 
 
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Mercer V. Tilson 
 
 OPEN LETTER OF MERCER V. TILSON 
 
 South Hanson, Mass., September 23, 1911. 
 
 After working for more than twenty years in compiling 
 the genealogy of the Tilson family, I am pleased to announce 
 to you that the Tilson genealogy has been published in book 
 form, 610 pages, size 6 l A inches by 9/4 inches, with thir- 
 teen half-tone illustrations and the family coat-of-arms, 
 and the family name embossed in gold on the front cover. 
 
 The book is bound in cloth and makes a volume which, 
 I think, will be a treasure to every Tilson who takes pride 
 in the men and women who have been their ancestors, and to 
 every descendant of the Tilsons whose lives are epitomized 
 therein. 
 
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The book contains an account of the family in England 
 back to the year 1066 and of Edmond Tilson who resided in 
 Plymouth, Mass., in 1638. 
 
 Three hundred volumes have been printed and I do not 
 expect that any subsequent edition will be issued. These 
 volumes I am offering for sale for four dollars, with the 
 postage of twenty-four cents, and on receipt of this amount, 
 $4.24, I shall be pleased to mail the volumes published until 
 the edition is exhausted. 
 
 Kindly remit at once, as I should be pleased, on account 
 of the condition of my health, to be able to dispose of these 
 volumes without delay. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 M. V. Tilson. 
 
 S N 
 
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 Roland F Fall River, Mass. 
 
 Tower, Theodore P Cummington, Mass. 
 
 Taintor, Mrs. Bessie B Brookline, Mass. 
 
 Tillson, Edward H Naperville, 111. 
 
 Miss Mabel Naperville, 111. 
 
 Harold Naperville, 111. 
 
 Arthur Naperville, 111. 
 
 Earl Naperville, 111. 
 
 Fred H Rockford, 111. 
 
 Miss Marian Rockford, 111. 
 
 Town, Mrs. Mabel T Earlville, 111. 
 
 Tillson, Byron W Bracebridge, Canada 
 
 Lawrence B Bracebridge, Canada 
 
 Miss A. Lenora Bracebridge, Canada 
 
 Miss Dorothy F Bracebridge, Canada 
 
 Thrall, Mrs. Emma B Windsor, Conn. 
 
 Miss Alice Windsor, Conn. 
 
 Oliver Windsor, Conn. 
 
 Joseph B Windsor, Conn. 
 
 Tillson, John Q New Haven, Conn. 
 
 Cyrus M Hamilton, N. Y. 
 
 U 
 
 Ulrich, Mrs. Flora B Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Miss Olive E Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Leroy Manchester, Conn. 
 
 W 
 
 Wellman, Mrs. Mary E Walpole, Mass. 
 
 Miss Fanny Walpole, Mass. 
 
 Miss Louise Walpole, Mass. 
 
 Edward C Walpole, Mass. 
 
 Charles Walpole, Mass. 
 
 ♦Since Deceased. 
 
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Wood, Mrs. Helen K Cheshire, Mass. 
 
 Miss Winifred B Cheshire, Conn. 
 
 Fred L Cheshire, Mass. 
 
 Wilson, J. Edward Holyoke, Mass. 
 
 Mrs. Kate B Holyoke, Mass. 
 
 Weatherbee, Miss Blanche G Marshfield Hills, Mass. 
 
 Miss Clara G Braintree, Mass. 
 
 White, J. Bartlett N. Hanson, Mass. 
 
 Miss Eliza B Brant Rock, Mass. 
 
 Wood, Mrs. Harriet B Plymouth, Mass. 
 
 Williamson, Mrs. Flora B Campello, Mass. 
 
 Waterman, Mrs. Amanda B Kingston, Mass. 
 
 White, Miss Mabel M N. Easton, Mass. 
 
 Wheaton, Earl Springfield, Mass. 
 
 White, Mrs. Emma B Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Miss Flora Toledo, Ohio 
 
 Warren, Charles H Providence, R. I. 
 
 Weyman, Wesley New York, N. Y. 
 
 Whitty, Mrs. Mabel H Norfolk, Va. 
 
 Y 
 
 Young, Mrs. Carrie B Bryantville, Mass. 
 
 Miss Grace M Newark, N. J. 
 
 Youmans, Mrs. Theodora W Waureka, Wis. 
 
 NOTICE OF THE FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING 
 
 The Fifth Annual Meeting and Reunion of the Society 
 of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet (1) of Plymouth, 
 Mass., Inc., will be held at Mountain Park Pavilion, Mt. 
 Tom, Holyoke, Mass., on Saturday, July 27, 1912. A short 
 business session at 11 o'clock a. m. 
 
 Accommodations for a fifty cent dinner will be provided 
 from 1 to 2 p. m. at the Pavilion. Families or parties who 
 desire to provide themselves with a basket lunch will find 
 tables for their accommodation in the park. 
 
 Trolley cars from Springfield and Holyoke to Mountain 
 Park every ten minutes. Good hotel accommodations can 
 be obtained in Springfield or Holyoke for those who wish 
 to spend more than the day in the vicinity. 
 
 Mt. Tom and Mountain Park furnish special attrac- 
 tions for an all-day's pleasure trip. Come early and stay 
 late and let us enjoy the day together. 
 
 Descendants, with Friends, All Welcome. 
 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett, President. 
 Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, Secretary. 
 
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ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY THE PRESIDENT 
 Fifth Annual Reunion, July 27, 1912 
 
 Members of the Robert Bartlet Society, Brethren and Friends: 
 
 It is with much pleasure that I greet you again today and 
 extend to you a hearty welcome to this our fifth annual 
 meeting and reunion. 
 
 The sign at the entrance is not as clean and spotless as 
 are the characters of those assembled here, but it has the 
 distinction of having reported for duty at every meeting from 
 the beginning. We have no extended program of exercises 
 this year, thinking it better to give the time aside from the 
 business meeting, to sociability, making the acquaintance of 
 the members of our family and enjoying the pleasures of this 
 beautiful mountain resort. For this reason I will occupy 
 but a few minutes of your time. There is another reason, 
 but never mind that. 
 
 During the past year we have lost three members by 
 death, Mrs. Amanda B. Waterman, of Kingston, Mrs. 
 Alice P. Burdick, sister of the President, and Mr. Mercer V. 
 Tilson, First Vice-President of the Society. Mention of 
 them will be made in the Historian's report. You will par- 
 don me, however, if I say a word in regard to Mr. Tilson. 
 
 Our acquaintance began in 1905, when I engaged him to 
 trace out my ancestral line, which I did not know back of 
 the fifth generation from Robert. In 1908 I spent a week's 
 vacation at his home in South Hanson and together we trav- 
 eled over the roads of Stoughton, Halifax, and Plymouth 
 and learned many things which were invaluable to me and 
 the Bartlett Society also. He loved the work and gave freely 
 of his time in searching for the Boulder and superintending 
 the work of erecting our memorial to Robert and Mary (War- 
 ren) Bartlet. He was of great assistance to your President 
 and I feel his loss a personal one. 
 
 It is with regret I have to state that our Historian, 
 Mrs. Marian Longfellow, of Brookline, Mass., who is recov- 
 ering from a very severe illness, is not able to be present with 
 us today. She writes that her enforced absence is a bitter 
 disappointment to her. 
 
 We have with us here today some officers and members 
 of the Tower Genealogical Society of Hingham, Mass. 
 The Towers, the Tillsons, and the Bartletts are so blended 
 together on genealogical lines in this western part of Mass- 
 achusetts, I trust you will pardon me if I again inflict upon 
 you a little of their history. 
 
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Peter Tower (5) married Deborah Stowell, in Hingham, 
 Mass., November 25, 1746. Peter Tower removed from 
 Hingham to Cummington, Mass., near the close of the Revo- 
 lutionary War. At this time or soon after his several children 
 (there were ten of them) went there also. His oldest child 
 and daughter Leah (6) who had married Nathaniel Tower (5) 
 was among the number. Nathaniel Tower (5) married Leah 
 Tower (6) in Hingham, October 18, 1770. He was a soldier 
 in the War of the Revolution, and here I wish to quote you 
 from the Tower Genealogy: 
 
 " A Pension of $66.66 per Annum was granted to his 
 widow Leah Tower, Dec. 9, 1845 with arrears to Sept. 1845 
 of $966.57. At the date of the Certificate she had entered 
 upon the 99th year of her age. In her affidavit Leah Tower 
 says, ' W r e were extremely poor and his wages would not sup- 
 port our family, and he was advised to remove to the west- 
 ern part of the state. Have heard my mother say they 
 moved with an ox team and were weeks on the way and his 
 pay as a soldier, $15.00 per month in Continental money, 
 would buy just five quarts of milk at that time.' He seems to 
 have removed about 1780 and near this time a number of his 
 relations by the name of Tower and many others of other 
 names who were relatives removed from Hingham, Cohasset, 
 W 7 ey mouth, and the vicinity, to the hill towns west of the 
 Connecticut River, then for the most part unoccupied, where 
 they became important factors in converting this wilderness 
 into well cultivated and flourishing farms, rearing large fam- 
 ilies of sons and daughters, who in their turn have repeated 
 the lessons of enterprise and industry so thoroughly learned 
 upon those hill-tops and have gone out through successive 
 generations in other fields to reclaim the wilderness until 
 the waves of the Pacific Ocean bar any further progress." 
 
 Leah Tower died in Cummington, January 23, 1847, aged 
 ninety-nine years, two months, nine days. I was nearly 
 six years old when she died. I remember going with my 
 parents once to visit her, probably from the circumstance that 
 she gave me a silver five-cent piece at the time. 
 
 The Tilsons removed from Halifax to Cummington and 
 Edward Bartlett with his family of twelve children removed 
 from Stoughton to Cummington in 1795. Seth Ames and Isaac 
 Bird of Stoughton followed tw T o of the daughters, Elizabeth 
 and Zilpha, and took them back to Stoughton. The rest of 
 the family remained in Cummington. 
 
 The Towers, Tilsons, and Bartletts owned farms adjoin- 
 ing each other and their homes w T ere less than a mile apart. 
 Steven Tower (6), son of Peter (5), married Anna Bowker 
 of Scituate, April 21, 1776. They had 13 children and 84 
 
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grandchildren. Four of the children of Edward Bartlett 
 married Towers, and two of them married Tilsons. 
 
 Welcome Tilson, brother of Edmund (who owned and lived 
 on the Bryant place for many years) married Leah Tower (7), 
 whose mother was a Bartlett. From the foregoing four fam- 
 ilies, one Bartlett, one Tower, and two Tilsons, have descended 
 about 400 of the 600 Bartlett descendants we have on our 
 mailing list, and more than 100 of them live within a radius 
 of twenty-five miles of Springfield, Springfield being the 
 banner town in the state. What more fitting, then, than 
 this our fifth annual meeting and reunion should be held at 
 this beautiful park under the shadow of Mt. Tom and, on 
 the other side of the Connecticut, Mt. Holyoke, standing as 
 sentinels to watch and guard over those beautiful valleys 
 which were the ancestral homes of so many of us. 
 
 The roster which we have here, that was issued January, 
 1911, containing 450 names, has 168 names who are descendants 
 of Robert Bartlet (1) and John Tower (1), 136 descendants of 
 Robert Bartlet (1) and Edmund Tillson (1), and 84 who are 
 descendants of all three of them. 
 
 I received a letter from one member saying he was plan- 
 ning to come all the way from Chicago for the purpose of 
 seeing what there is to the Bartlett-Tower-Tillson combina- 
 tion. I trust you all may receive both pleasure and profit 
 in this coming together and carry away with you to your 
 homes such pleasant memories of the occasion that you will 
 resolve to come again next year. 
 
 SECRETARY'S REPORT 
 
 (For Preceding Year) 
 
 Aug. 12, 1911. 
 
 Report of the Fourth Annual Reunion of the Bart- 
 lett Society 
 
 The Fourth Annual Reunion of the descendants of Robert 
 (1) and Mary (Warren) Bartlet, was held in Plymouth, Mass., 
 on Saturday, August 12, 1911. 
 
 The morning session held in the Chapel of the Methodist 
 Church, for the transaction of business, opened at 10.30 
 with a few words of welcome by the President, Mr. Lucius 
 Warren Bartlett, of Hartford, Conn., and a song " Summer is 
 Here," by Miss Mary A. Hopkins, of Weymouth, Mass. 
 
 The roll-call of members proved thirty-two present at 
 that hour to answer to their names, and fifty-seven names in- 
 
eluding visitors were registered in the Journal as attending 
 the morning session. 
 
 The Secretary's report of the previous meeting was read 
 and accepted. The Treasurer's report and that of work for 
 the year, were also read and accepted. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet moved a rising vote of thanks to 
 the Secretary for the work she had done during the year. 
 This was cheerfully given and later a very hearty vote of 
 thanks was accorded to the President for his faithful services 
 in the interest of the Society. 
 
 The elections of officers for the coming year followed 
 these reports. The officers of the previous year were unani- 
 mously elected, the votes being cast by the Secretary, and were 
 as follows: 
 
 President, Mr. Lucius Warren Bartlett, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 First Vice-President, Mr. Mercer V. Tilson, South Hanson, 
 Mass. 
 
 Second Vice-President, Mr. Charles H. Bartlett, Dorches- 
 ter, Mass. 
 
 Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, 
 Holyoke, Mass. 
 
 Historian, Mrs. Marian Longfellow, Brookline, Mass. 
 
 Under the head of new business, the committee on by- 
 laws presented three amendments for consideration, notice 
 of which had been previously sent to all members of the 
 Society. 
 
 First. To see if the Society will repeal Section 1 of Article V of the 
 By-Laws, and insert in place thereof the words: " Section 1. Fiscal 
 Year. — The Fiscal Year of the Society shall be from January 1st to 
 December 31st. New members who join the Society between October 
 1st and December 31st of any given year, and paying the membership 
 fee, shall be considered as having paid their annual dues for the next suc- 
 ceeding fiscal year. 
 
 Second. To see if the Society will amend Section 1 of Article VI of 
 the By-Laws to read as follows: ''Dues. — The membership fee which each 
 member shall pay on joining the Society shall be one dollar ($1.00), and 
 thereafter there shall be an annual fee of one dollar ($1.00), due and pay- 
 able to the Treasurer on the first of January each year." 
 
 Third. To see if the Society will amend the By-Laws by adding the 
 following words to be designated as Section 2, Article 11: "Associate 
 Members. — The officers and members of other societies of similar charac- 
 ter and objects and other interested persons upon application, paying the 
 membership fee and being approved by the Executive Committee, may be 
 enrolled as associate members entitled to all the privileges of the Society 
 except voting and holding office. The husband or wife of a descendant, 
 who is not in his or her own right a descendant of Robert Bartlet, of 
 Plymouth, may be eligible as an associate member under this clause." 
 
 Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, Secretary. 
 
 L. W. Bartlett, President. 
 
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These three amendments were acted upon separately 
 and each passed by unanimous vote. 
 
 Owing to the change in the date of the fiscal year from 
 January 1 to December 31, instead of as formerly from June 
 1 to May 31, it was voted that all who had paid one dollar 
 membership fee at this meeting be given receipt in full for 
 dues to December 31, 1912, and that all who had paid fifty 
 cents since May 31, 1911, should also, upon the payment of 
 another fifty cents, be given receipt in full to December 31, 
 1912. 
 
 The matter of some permanent badge for the members of 
 the Society was brought up by your President. A sample 
 design was exhibited which seemed pleasing to the members. 
 Several expressed a wish for such a badge and wanted to 
 order more than one. No further action was taken. 
 
 The Secretary was ably assisted during this session by 
 Miss Anna E. Bartlett, of Hartford, Conn., who received and 
 made record of dues paid and of contributions to the Memorial 
 Fund, also by Miss Alice M. Thrall, of Windsor, Conn., 
 who registered the name and address of each member and 
 guest attending. 
 
 There being no further business at 12.30 the meeting 
 adjourned for lunch served in Wesleyan Hall by the Ladies' 
 Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It was 
 cause for much regret that such an enjoyable dinner must 
 be hastened that we might take the 1.15 car for the site of 
 the Memorial Tablet, where the afternoon exercises were to 
 be held. The day was a perfect one and the privilege of 
 sitting in the open air, in the shade of the near trees, to dedi- 
 cate the beautiful Memorial Tablet right before us was a 
 happy diversion from the business session of the morning. 
 The memory of the occasion will linger long in the minds 
 of those so fortunate as to be present. 
 
 Mr. Charles H. Bartlett, our Second Vice-President, 
 was presiding officer for the afternoon. The exercises opened 
 with a song, "The Golden Pathway," by Miss Mary A. Hop- 
 kins. The songs rendered by Miss Hopkins were very pleas- 
 ing additions to our program and we felt proud I am sure of 
 so fine a singer in our family. 
 
 The next treat for the afternoon was a paper on " The 
 Ancestry of the Warrens," by our President, Mr. Lucius 
 Warren Bartlett. Following this was a very interesting 
 review of the history of the Society from its organization to 
 the present time by our Historian, Mrs. Marian Longfellow. 
 She included in her review some historical notes of its officers, 
 especially of the President and in her happy way held and 
 charmed her audience to the last. 
 
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Unfortunately Mrs. Flora S. Matthewson, of South 
 Braintree, Mass., Secretary of the Alden Kindred of America, 
 whose name was on the program, could not be present. 
 
 Mr. George Warren Tower, of South Boston, President 
 of the Tower Genealogical Society, preached us a little ser- 
 mon, as he called it, from the text, Faith, Hope, and Charity. 
 He emphasized the teaching of the fifth commandment, 
 honor, love, and reverence for our ancestors and urged upon 
 his audience the advisability of keeping a record or history 
 of their lives, assuring them that it would be esteemed a most 
 choice possession by their descendants. 
 
 Rev. George A. Smith, of Boston, Secretary of the Amer- 
 ican Society of Colonial Families, gave us a fine talk, his 
 theme being " Getting Together." I think he almost per- 
 suaded us to join the Society he represented and be in name 
 as we are in truth, one of the Colonial Families of America. 
 
 Remarks were made by Mr. Charles H. Bartlett, and other 
 members of the Society. 
 
 After all this fine entertainment, the sun was sinking 
 behind the trees and with the song " Home, Sweet Home," 
 by Miss Hopkins, and the benediction by Rev. George A. 
 Smith, the Bartlett Family separated hoping to meet again 
 next year. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, Secretary. 
 
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Treasurer's Report, 1911-12 
 
 Receipts 
 
 Membership fees at $1.00 for 1911 
 " " " . " 1912 
 » » << " 1913 
 
 Total .... 
 
 Contributions for Memorial Tablet 
 Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet 
 Mrs. Hattie R. Bartlett 
 Mr. W. Ellery Bird . 
 Mr. C. H. Bartlett . 
 Mr. William H. Bartlett 
 Miss L. Florence Bartlett 
 Mrs. Edith Carman Hay 
 Mr. Horace Bird 
 
 Total 
 
 Total Receipts 
 
 Cash in Treasury at last Report 
 
 Grand Total 
 
 $2.00 
 
 105.00 
 
 2.00 
 
 $109.00 
 
 $2.00 
 
 1.00 
 
 1.00 
 
 1.00 
 
 2.00 
 
 1.00 
 
 1.00 
 
 .50 
 
 $9.50 
 
 $109.00 
 
 $9.50 
 
 $118.50 
 1.50 
 
 $120. CO 
 
 Expenditures 
 
 To rent of chairs, August 12, 1911 
 
 " Delivery and return of chairs 
 
 " Dinner tickets for guests 
 
 " Janitor service 
 
 11 Floral emblem for the late Mr. Mercer V. Tilson 
 
 " Call for 1912 reunion 
 
 " Printing of same 
 
 " 4 packages of stamped envelopes 
 
 " Badges for 1912 reunion 
 Paid on deficit of last report 
 
 Total Expenses 
 Balance in Treasury 
 
 Grand Total 
 
 $2.00 
 5.00 
 3.00 
 1.00 
 5.00 
 9.00 
 3.75 
 2.16 
 4.82 
 
 80.89 
 
 $116.62 
 3.3S 
 
 $120.00 
 
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HISTORIAN'S REPORT 
 
 Annual Report of the Historian, July 27, 1912 
 
 Descendants of Robert Bartlet and Mary Warren his 
 wife, place another milestone today in the history of this 
 Society. The Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Ermina Bart- 
 lett Suhanek, has given you the statistics of the Society as 
 to numbers and membership, finances, etc. It is my province 
 to endeavor to give a history of the work of the past year. 
 
 As ever, we owe to the untiring zeal, the steady purpose, 
 and generous response of our President, Lucius W. Bartlett, 
 most, if not all, of our success and progress. At the last 
 regular meeting or reunion of the Society it was voted to 
 raise the " dues " to the rate of $1.00 per annum instead of 
 the manifestly inadequate sum of fifty cents. This has been 
 a wise step. The Society has this year called the reunion 
 at another place than Plymouth, thus giving recognition to 
 the central portion of the state. An insignia, embodying the 
 Bartlet coat-of-arms, has been definitely adopted this year. 
 It is beautiful in design ; is modest in proportions, and is 
 well worthy a place in the finest collection of insignia of 
 patriotic and genealogical bodies. 
 
 Insignia of the Society 
 
 The Society has become a part of the American Society of 
 Colonial Families, thus adding to its usefulness and extend- 
 ing its influence. At two of the large banquets of the Ameri- 
 can Society of Colonial Families, held in Boston, the Society 
 of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass., 
 was represented; the first one being on October, 1911, at 
 Ford Building, Beacon Hill, where your Historian had the 
 honor to deliver, by request, an address, and the other in 
 April of 1912, at Park Street Church, Boston, when your 
 President, Lucius Warren Bartlett, gave a paper on " The 
 Origin and Progress of the Society of the Descendants of Rob- 
 ert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass.," which was listened to with 
 marked interest. 
 
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Necrology 
 
 Death has taken from our midst our First Vice-President, 
 Mercer V. Tilson, of South Hanson, Mass., who passed from 
 our midst on May 28, 1912. He was ever an earnest worker 
 for the welfare of the Society, ably seconding the efforts of 
 our President. One of the local papers published an interest- 
 ing account of Mr. Tilson, as soldier, genealogist, and author. 
 His " Tilson Genealogy " has been published since our reunion 
 of last year, and was the result of much careful investigation, 
 and is a book of value to genealogists. He was a member 
 of the Old Bridgewater Historical Society. Mr. Tilson's 
 funeral was held in the Congregational Church at South 
 Hanson, June 2, 1912, where his favorite hymns, " Nearer, 
 my God, to Thee," " Abide with Me," and that beautiful 
 one, " One Sweetly Solemn Thought," were sung by a quar- 
 tette. We miss him from our midst and it is due his memory 
 that we should today express our appreciation of him as a 
 man and a valued officer of the Society. 
 
 Death has also taken a member of the Society this year. 
 Mrs. Alice P. Burdick, a sister of our President, died January 
 4, 1912, at the home of her son, Mr. Edwin P. Burdick, in 
 Millburn, N.J. Mrs. Burdick had been in failing health for a 
 long time. 
 
 In closing this report, your Historian regrets that a long 
 and severe illness prevents her attendance at the reunion 
 of the " Society of Descendants of Robert Bartlet, of Plym- 
 outh, Mass.," and to wish every member of it Godspeed. 
 
 Marian Longfellow, Historian. 
 
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CALL FOR THE SIXTH ANNUAL REUNION 
 
 Notice is hereby given that the Sixth Annual Meeting 
 and Reunion of the Society of the Descendants of Robert 
 Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass., Inc., will be held in the vestry 
 of the Porter Church, North Main Street, Brockton, Mass., 
 on Saturday, August 16, 1913. The vestry will be open 
 all day for the accommodation of those who attend. The 
 Porter Church is about three minutes' walk from the railroad 
 station. For those who want hotel accommodations would 
 recommend the Fraser house, No. 148 Main Street; rooms 
 75 cents per day for single person, $1.00 for two. 
 
 Program 
 
 The morning will be devoted to becoming acquainted with 
 the members of our family who are present. At 11.30 a. m. 
 the meeting will come to order for the business session. At 
 1.30 p. m. there will be a recess for dinner, which will be 
 served at the " Bon-Ton " restaurant, 24 West Elm Street. 
 Price, 50 cents per plate. After the dinner there will be 
 voluntary speaking and music from members and others for 
 the remainder of the day. 
 
 Rev. George A. Smith, secretary of the American Soci- 
 ety of Colonial Families has accepted an invitation to be 
 present. The American Society of Colonial Families in 
 which the . Bartlet Society holds membership, publishes 
 a magazine called " The Colonial," issued quarterly. Sub- 
 scription price fifty cents per year. Each society has one 
 page, each issue, for its exclusive use, and the descendants 
 of such society are requested to send fifty cents to their sec- 
 retary as a subscription and thereby keep in touch with what 
 their own and other societies are doing. 
 
 The Historian is compiling a complete report of our Soci- 
 ety's work from its organization in 1908. The meeting of 
 August 16, 1913, will be included therein. It will be pub- 
 lished in pamphlet form by the Society and sold to members 
 and others at cost of publication, thus preserving, in perma- 
 nent form, these valuable records for those who come after 
 us. It is also proposed to place a certain number of copies of 
 this report in the larger libraries. We earnestly request all 
 members who would like a copy for self or friends to notify 
 the Secretary to that effect. 
 
 The insignia of the society is a pin in white and black 
 enamel and gold, a facsimile of which you will find on the 
 corner of the envelope. Upon receipt of 75 cents by the sec- 
 retary one of these pins will be mailed to you. 
 
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Extracts from the By-Laws 
 
 Article II, Section 1. Membership: Any person by making 
 application to the Secretary and proving to the satisfaction 
 of the executive board that the applicant is a descendant of 
 Robert (1) and Mary (Warren) Bartlet and paying a mem- 
 bership fee of SI. 00 may become a member of the Society. 
 
 Article II, Sec. 2. Associate Members: The officers or 
 members of other societies of similar character and other in- 
 terested persons upon application, paying the membership fee 
 and being approved by the Executive Committee, may be en- 
 rolled as associate members, entitled to all the privileges of 
 the Society except voting or holding office. The husband 
 or wife of a descendant who is not in his or her own right a 
 descendant of Robert of Plymouth, may be eligible as an 
 associate member under this clause. 
 
 Article V, Sec. 1. The fiscal year of the Society shall 
 be from January 1 to December 31, inclusive. Members who 
 join the Society between October 1 and December 31 of any 
 given year, and pay the membership fee, shall be considered 
 as having paid their annual dues for the next succeeding 
 fiscal year. 
 
 Article VI, Sec. 1. The dues which each member shall 
 pay on joining the Society shall be $1.00, and thereafter there 
 shall be an annual fee of SI. 00, payable to the Treasurer on 
 the first day of January each year. 
 
 Mrs. Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, Secretary. 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett, President. 
 
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President's Address of Welcome 
 Sixth Annual Reunion 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen, Members and Friends of the Society 
 of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet, of Plymouth, Mass: It 
 gives me great pleasure to again welcome you to this, our 
 sixth reunion and fifth anniversary. 
 
 The persons bearing the name of Bartlett in this country 
 are legion. Thomas Edward Bartlett in his book, published 
 in 1892, gives on page 88 the names of twenty-three Bartlets, 
 original settlers, who came to these New England colonies 
 previous to 1700 (nearly all of whom are known to have had 
 descendants), Robert of Plymouth being the first. Thomas 
 Edward's book, and one other somewhat smaller, by Levi 
 Bartlett of Warner, N. H., are the only genealogical books of 
 the Bartlets that I am aware of and these contain only their 
 own direct ancestral lines. Thomas Edward from John 
 Bartlet of Weymouth and Cumberland, 1666, Levi Bart- 
 lett from Richard Bartlet of Newbury, 1635. 
 
 Of the Bartlett Societies I know of but one other, that of 
 Robert Bartlet, of Hartford, Conn., 1640, said to have 
 been of Cambridge, Mass. in 1632, removed to Northampton 
 in 1665 and was killed there by the Indians in 1676. Octav- 
 ius W 7 . Bartlett, of Meriden, Conn., is Secretary. 
 
 In the short time to which I must confine my remarks, 
 perhaps a brief account of how this Bartlet Society came 
 into existence might be of interest. Soon after the close of 
 the war of the Revolution, four families removed from this 
 section of Massachusetts to Cummington, which at that 
 time was nearly an unbroken forest. They were: 
 
 Peter Tower (5), 10 children, from Hingham; Edward 
 Bartlett (5), 12 children, from Stoughton; Edmund Tilson 
 (7), 13 children, from Halifax; Welcome Tilson (7), 5 children, 
 from Halifax. 
 
 They settled on land adjoining each other. This colony 
 of forty persons naturally intermarried more or less, as the 
 result of which we have on our mailing list about four hundred 
 living descendants of these four families. 
 
 Some time previous to the publication of the Tower 
 Genealogy in 1891, a representative of Charlemagne Tower 
 came to Cummington and stopped at the home of Luther B. 
 Tower, a son of Stephen and Milly (Bartlett) Tower. He 
 was there several weeks collecting data for the Tower Geneal- 
 ogy. 
 
 It was at that time I became interested to know who my 
 Bartlett ancestors were. In the family Bible of Stephen 
 
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and Milly (Bartlett) Tower was this record: Benjamin Bart- 
 let, died April 23, 1786, age 77; Hannah Bartlet, died 
 December 17, 1799, age 86. Millie (Bartlett) Tower said these 
 were her grandparents, father and mother of Edward Bart- 
 lett, who came from Stoughton. Beyond this record no 
 one of the descendants there could give me any information. 
 Time went on, and in 1905 a notice came into my hands 
 from Mercer V. Tilson of South Hanson, that the Tilson 
 Genealogy was ready for publication, and asking for sub- 
 scriptions for the book. 
 
 My grandmother being a Tilson, I subscribed for a copy. 
 It came to my mind then that Mr. Tilson would be just the 
 person to trace my ancestral line in the eastern part of the 
 state. Correspondence followed, and with this clue from 
 the family Bible he found on the Plymouth records the mar- 
 riage of Benjamin Bartlet and Hannah Stevens, April 8, 
 1737. They were born in Plymouth and the date of their 
 birth corresponded with the age and date in this Bible rec- 
 ord. The line from this Benjamin (4) to Robert (1) w T as eas- 
 ily traced. They had a son born in Plymouth May 7, 1739. 
 From that date this family completely disappeared from the 
 Plymouth records. Where did they go? When did they 
 arrive in Stoughton? I went to South Hanson, and with 
 Mr. Tilson we canvassed Stoughton and adjoining places 
 to find some person who could locate the Bartlet place. 
 
 Isaac Bird of Stoughton married one of Edward Bart- 
 let's daughters and one of his descendants said he would 
 show me the old Bartlett place, for he had hunted through- 
 out the neighborhood when a boy. He went with me and 
 we found the three cellars, which were near together, where 
 Benjamin Bartlet, Sr., and his two sons, Benjamin, Jr., 
 and Edward lived. Mr. Tilson in searching the records 
 for names of those who owned land adjoining the Bartlet 
 place, found the name of Jeremiah Beal, who lived in North 
 Parish of Bridgewater (now Brockton) on North Pearl Street. 
 The clerk told him that a grandmother of Mr. Beal was living 
 in Brockton (since deceased). He called on her and found 
 that she had her grandfather's account book, where were 
 recorded dealings with Benjamin and Hannah, his wife, and 
 the sons Benjamin and Edward. It seems they were in 
 Stoughton about 1760. Later I found in the Mayflower 
 Descendants Magazine, April, 1910, vital statistics of Dux- 
 bury: Births, Benjamin Bartlet, son of Benjamin and Han- 
 nah, his w T ife, born August 17, 1741. Edward Bartlet, son 
 of Benjamin and Hannah, his wife, born February 18, 1744, 
 which shows that they removed from Plymouth to Stoughton 
 by way of Duxbury. There is little more to tell. 
 
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In making this canvass in search of the Bartlet place, 
 I met Mrs. Eugenie F. Lovell of Whitman, Mrs. Edith I. 
 Cushing of Middleboro, our first Secretary, the Birds of 
 Stoughton, the Packards of Brockton, and others, whose 
 acquaintance I did not wish to summarily drop. Later I 
 suggested to Mr. Tilson that he find a place in Brockton 
 where I could invite them for a day, have a dinner and social 
 visit together, not having the remotest idea of forming a Bart- 
 lett Family Association. Mr. Tilson suggested that I in- 
 clude any descendants of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth. I 
 prepared a circular and mailed it to all Bartletts whose name 
 and address I could obtain. In a room in the Y. M. C. A. 
 building in the city of Brockton, on August 13, 1908, the 
 meeting was held. Mr. Tilson, my very efficient colleague 
 since 1905, was not aware all this time that he was in any 
 manner a Bartlett descendant. In the fall of 1908 he dis- 
 covered in the Duxbury records that through Ruth Bart- 
 let (4), Benjamin (3), Benjamin (2), Robert (1), that he was, 
 and had four Mayflower ancestors. 
 
 At this 1908 meeting the number in attendance and the 
 interest manifested was such that it was decided to form an 
 organization, which is now five years old, and as I look over 
 this company gathered here today it seems to be quite a healthy, 
 growing child. I hope it may attain to many years of life 
 and usefulness. 
 
 Report of the Secretary 
 Mrs. Ermina B. Suhanek 
 
 Report of the Fifth Annual Reunion of the 
 Bartlett Society 
 
 The Fifth Annual Meeting and Reunion of the Society 
 of the Descendants of Robert (1) and Mary (Warren) Bart- 
 let, of Plymouth, Mass., was held at Mountain Park, Mt. 
 Tom, Holyoke, Mass., July 27, 1912. 
 
 The business meeting was called to order at 12 m. by the 
 President, Lucius Warren Bartlett, of Hartford, Conn., 
 and was opened with a song entitled, " Promised," by Miss 
 Mary A. Hopkins, of Weymouth, Mass. 
 
 The President gave a hearty and cordial welcome to all 
 present, followed by a short address. No literary program 
 was planned for the occasion as it was desired to give the time 
 to sociability and getting acquainted with our Bartlett 
 family. 
 
 The President in his address made mention of the death 
 of two members of our family during the year: Mrs. Alice 
 
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P. Burdick, of Hartford, Conn., who passed to the higher life 
 January 4, 1912, and Mr. Mercer V. Tilson, of South Hanson, 
 Mass., May 28, 1912, paying a beautiful and most fitting 
 tribute to our late First Vice-President, Mr. Tilson. He also 
 gave some very interesting facts and reminiscences of the 
 descendants of Robert Bartlet (1) in relation to their con- 
 nection with the Towers and Tilsons of Western Mass- 
 achusetts. 
 
 The Secretary's report of the fourth annual reunion, 
 held August 12, 1911, was read and accepted. The Treas- 
 urer's report for the year was read and accepted. In it 
 
 mention was made of nine addit 
 the expense of the Memorial, viz 
 
 Mrs. Sarah S. Bartlet 
 Mrs. Hattie R. Bartlett . 
 Mr. W. Ellery Bird 
 Mr. Charles H. Bartlett 
 Mr. William H. Bartlett 
 Miss L. Florence Bartlett 
 Mrs. Edith Carman Hay 
 Mr. Horace Bird 
 
 Total 
 
 onal contributions toward 
 
 $2.00 
 1.00 
 1.00 
 1.00 
 2.00 
 1.00 
 1.00 
 .50 
 
 $9.50 
 
 Our Historian, Mrs. Marian Longfellow, being absent 
 on account of illness, her interesting paper was read by 
 your Secretary. 
 
 The following were then elected officers for the ensuing 
 year: 
 
 President, Mr. Lucius Warren Bartlett, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 First Vice-President, Mr. Charles L. Bartlett, Dorchester, 
 Mass. 
 
 Second Vice-President, Mr. John A. Bartlett, Brockton, 
 Mass. 
 
 Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Ermina B. Suhanek, Hol- 
 yoke, Mass. 
 
 Historian, Mrs. Marian Longfellow, Brookline, Mass. 
 
 Under the head of new business, suggestions were called 
 for as to the time and place of the next reunion. 
 
 No further business being presented, at 1.15 the meeting 
 adjourned for dinner. 
 
 Following the dinner a group picture was taken of those 
 present at the meeting, some fifty or more in number, after 
 which they separated for the mountain and other places of 
 interest. 
 
 Your Secretary was ably assisted during the business 
 session by Miss Alice M. Thrall, of Windsor, Conn., and by 
 Mrs. Arthur L. Bartlett, of Springfield, Mass. There were 
 on sale in the hall, photo-engravings of the Bartlet coat-of- 
 
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arms, executed by the Bartlett Engraving Co., of Springfield, 
 Mass. There are more of them for sale, together with a 
 short history of the coat-of-arms, price twenty-five cents. 
 
 Much credit and thanks are due the Mountain Park and 
 Mt. Tom management, for their excellent dinner, free use of 
 the hall for our gathering and most considerate and kindly 
 attention throughout the day. It will be a long time before 
 we find a more convenient and enjoyable place for our re- 
 union. We only regretted that more of our members were not 
 present to enjoy the day with us. 
 
 The President's address and the Historian's paper are 
 appended to this report. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, Secretary. 
 
 Treasurer's Report 
 From July 27, 1912 to August 16, 1913 
 
 Receipts 
 
 Dues for 1911 
 " " 1912 
 " " 1913 
 " " 1914 
 
 Total dues 
 For sale of sixty badge pins 
 For sale of cards at reunion 
 Subscriptions to Colonial Magazine 
 Cash on hand at last report 
 
 Total Receipts 
 
 $0.50 
 
 2.00 
 
 104.00 
 
 1.00 
 
 $107.50 
 
 $107.50 
 45.00 
 
 .40 
 
 11.50 
 
 3.38 
 
 $167.78 
 
 Expenditures 
 
 Paid balance of deficit for 1911 
 Janitor service at reunion, 1912 
 Newspaper reports with cost of mailing 
 Sixty badge pins with boxes for mailing 
 Expressage on record books 
 
 Traveling expenses of Historian from Boston 
 return ...... 
 
 Stationery and printing .... 
 
 First and second issues of Colonial Magazine 
 
 Total expenses .... 
 
 Balance in Treasury .... 
 
 to Holvoke and 
 
 $11 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 41 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 37 
 
 9 
 
 00 
 00 
 50 
 
 90 
 25 
 
 05 
 44 
 50 
 
 $110.64 
 57.14 
 
 $167.78 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Ermina B. Suhanek, Treasurer. 
 
 Note. — Reports of the Treasurer have been made out from the date 
 of one annual meeting to the next, although since the change in the By- 
 Laws, the Fiscal Year for membership fees is the calendar year from 
 January to January. 
 
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REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1913 
 
 The work of the year has been mainly of correspondence, 
 no small part of it in relation to ancestry falling to the lot of 
 your President. We have kept no record of the number of 
 letters or addressed envelopes mailed. The records neces- 
 sary to be kept and letters compelling our attention being 
 quite sufficient to consume all the spare time at our command. 
 
 In the month of December, 1912, the following call was 
 issued : 
 
 Holyoke, Mass., December 13, 1912. 
 
 There will be a meeting of the Executive Board of the Robert Bart- 
 let (1) Society, Inc., at the Committee Room of the Park Street Church, 
 Boston, on Thursday, January 9, 1913, at 2.30 p. m. for the transaction of 
 any business proper to come before the meeting. 
 
 Per order, 
 
 Ermina B. Suhanek, Secretary. 
 L. W. Bartlett, President. 
 
 Following is the report of the meeting: 
 
 Board meeting of the Society of the Descendants of 
 Robert Bartlet (1) of Plymouth. 
 
 A meeting of the Executive Board of the Society of the 
 Descendants of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth was held at 
 the Park Street Church, Boston, at 2.30 p. m. on January 9, 
 1913, the President, Lucius Warren Bartlett in the chair. 
 
 In the unavoidable absence of the Secretary and Treas- 
 urer, Mrs. Ermina B. Suhanek, of Holyoke, Mass., the His- 
 torian, Mrs. Marian Longfellow, served as Secretary pro 
 tern. 
 
 The first report was that of the Treasurer, and was as 
 follows: 
 
 Receipts $75.78 
 
 Disbursements . . . . . . . 60.24 
 
 Balance $15.54 
 
 This report was accepted and filed. 
 
 The next order of business was the choice of time and 
 place for the next annual reunion. It was moved by Mrs. 
 Marian Longfellow, and seconded by Mr. Charles H. Bartlett, 
 that the place be Brockton, Mass. This was done because 
 Brockton was the scene of the first meeting at time of organ- 
 ization, and because a number of members resided in and 
 about Brockton. The motion was unanimously carried. 
 
 It was moved by Mr. Charles H. Bartlett, and seconded 
 by Mr. John A. Bartlett, that the time be Saturday, August 
 16, 1913. This was carried. 
 
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The President submitted a plan for printed matter rel- 
 ative to this reunion, and also relative to bills to be issued for 
 clues to be sent out at an early date. Mrs. Marian Long- 
 fellow moved, and Mr. John A. Bartlett seconded the motion 
 that the President be authorized to have such printing done. 
 This was carried. 
 
 The President stated that all badges of the Society which 
 he had had on hand had been sold to members, and it was 
 moved by Mrs. Marian Longfellow and seconded by Mr. 
 Charles H. Bartlett, that the President be authorized to pur- 
 chase ten more pins to supply demands that might be made 
 therefor. This was also carried. 
 
 The President submitted a proposition relative to print- 
 ing and having ready for sale after the next annual reunion on 
 August 16, 1913, a report that should cover the history of the 
 Society's inception, August 13, 1908, down to, and including 
 the annual meeting of 1913, should funds warrant the Society 
 so doing. It w T as moved by the President, who resigned the 
 chair for that purpose, that such report be printed, subject 
 to the condition imposed. This motion was seconded by 
 Mr. John A. Bartlett and carried. The President then 
 resumed the chair. 
 
 The proposition submitted by the American Society of 
 Colonial Families that a publication be printed for the uses 
 and benefit of that Society and the affiliated families, was 
 presented to the Board, and the offer of the American Soci- 
 ety of Colonial Families to assign one hundred copies per year, 
 at an annual cost to the Family Association of $16.00, each 
 family of the Association to have one page of said publi- 
 cation for its exclusive use, was accepted, Mr. John A. Bart- 
 lett making said motion, which was seconded by Mr. Charles 
 H. Bartlett. 
 
 Mrs. Marian Longfellow was appointed as editor of such 
 a page in the general publication. 
 
 There being no further business the Board adjourned 
 and later took part in the reception and dinner of the Ameri- 
 can Society of Colonial Families. 
 
 Marian Longfellow, Secretary pro tern-. 
 
 We have on file one hundred and forty-five names, of 
 persons who are, or have been members of the Bartlett Society, 
 representing fourteen different states, viz.: Massachusetts, 
 Connecticut, Maine, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 
 Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Utah, Ari- 
 zona, Florida, and Texas. 
 
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From this number of members, five have signified during 
 the past year their desire for different reasons to give up 
 their membership. 
 
 We have lost since organization five of our members by 
 death, two during the past year, of whom your Historian will 
 make mention. 
 
 We have gained seven new members during the year, 
 and have beside ten associate members. 
 
 We are extremely pleased to be able to say that from a 
 present membership of one hundred and fifty-five, one hun- 
 dred and four have greatly encouraged and aided the work of 
 the Society by promptly paying their dues. 
 
 The outlook for the Society is gratifying, and we bespeak 
 for it a happy and prosperous future. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Ermina B. Suhanek, Secretary. 
 
 In the absence of Mrs. Marian Longfellow, the Histo- 
 rian, her report was read by Mrs. Ermina D. Suhanek, the 
 Secretary, and was as follows: 
 
 " Again I am obliged to send you my greetings instead 
 of bearing them in person ; but far from having lost my inter- 
 est in this organization of which I have the honor to be His- 
 torian, I find that this Society, its objects, its work, and its 
 bond of good fellowship, tightens its grip upon me as the days 
 go on, and that while I have been compelled to give up some 
 activities among the clubs, I cannot let my interest in this 
 organization wane. Whether I continue to serve you in 
 my present capacity or to work in the ranks, I shall ever give 
 my best efforts for its purposes. 
 
 ' The work of an historian must look backward and make 
 record of the past. The future is unknown, but the past is 
 written in indelible characters. 
 
 " What a nation, a state, an organization, or an individ- 
 ual does is forever done; no power, no desire may erase it 
 from the annals of time. Therefore is the office one of re- 
 sponsibility and one to be carefully and thoughtfully entered 
 upon, and faithfully carried out. To fail you even in one 
 instance would be dishonorable. The work of your Society 
 is growing rapidly; there is steady advancement and the Soci- 
 ety has taken its place, and a place of no mean proportions, 
 in that galaxy of ' The American Society of Colonial Fam- 
 ilies,' whose able Secretary, Rev. George A. Smith, is with 
 you today. He is an optimist of the optimists, and his greet- 
 ing to you today will be full of cheer and achievement. 
 
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11 During the past year the membership of this Society 
 has grown to 150. Your founder and President, Lucius 
 Warren Bartlett, has given freely, as is his custom, of his 
 time, strength, and watchful interest to the Society, which 
 owes so much already to him. Your Secretary's long, faith- 
 ful, and efficient service is well known to you, and Mrs. 
 Ermina B. Suhanek needs no praise from me. ' Young blood,' 
 the slogan of the times, is represented amply in your two Vice- 
 Presidents, Charles W. Bartlett and John A. Bartlett, who 
 may be trusted to put their shoulder to the wheel and get us 
 out of dangerous ' ruts,' should we show an inclination to 
 subside into such. 
 
 ' You meet today in a bustling, typical New England 
 city, a city of accomplishment. In this neighborhood, 
 though far from realizing the dimensions to which it was to 
 grow, came Bartlets of the old stock. It is to honor them, 
 second only to the honor paid to their progenitor, that we 
 have chosen this place for our pilgrimage, this year. 
 
 '.' On that great pilgrimage, in which their steps turned 
 generations ago, have also entered the feet of some of our own 
 beloved membership in this Society and on the scroll of that 
 vast army have been inscribed the names of Mrs. Amanda B. 
 Waterman of Kingston, Mass., who died in June, 1912, but 
 the notice of whose death had not been sent in to our Sec- 
 retary previous to the meeting at Mountain Park, Mt. Tom, 
 in July of 1912. 
 
 " We have also to record the passing on of Mrs. Emily 
 Bartlett, of Worthington, Mass., who was with you but one 
 short year ago. Let us stand for a minute in silent memorial 
 to those who have preceded us into the ' great beyond.' 
 
 :< There is a higher light, a broader outlook granted to 
 them, but for us all remains the opportunity to make our 
 life now of real benefit to our kind. 
 
 ' There is an old hymn beginning with these words: 
 ' God be with us till we meet again,' and it is with this 
 wish that I subscribe myself as your Historian, 
 
 Marian Longfellow." 
 
 An interesting report of the work of the past year was then 
 read by Mrs. Suhanek and was followed by her report as 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Secretary's Report 
 
 There is a membership of one hundred and fifty, and a 
 mailing list of six hundred persons who are connected with 
 the Society by ties of blood. 
 
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Miss Isabelle M. Bartlett moved that the Secretary be in- 
 structed to write a letter of sympathy to the Historian upon 
 the death of her brother, Mr. William Pitt Preble Longfellow, 
 of Cambridge, Mass. The motion was seconded by Miss 
 Mary A. Hopkins, and was carried. 
 
 The re-election of the present officers was unanimous, 
 and the vote of the Society was cast for the following: 
 
 President, Lucius Warren Bartlett, Windsor, Conn. 
 
 First Vice-President, Charles H. Bartlett, Dorchester, 
 Mass. 
 
 Second Vice-President, John A. Bartlett, Brockton, Mass. 
 
 Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Ermina D. B. Suhanek, Hol- 
 yoke, Mass. 
 
 Historian, Mrs. Marian Longfellow, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Mrs. Suhanek showed the Bartlet coat-of-arms, and the 
 President exhibited a mortar and pestle which Mrs. Sarah 
 Achsah Bartlett of Plymouth had forwarded to the Society 
 through him as a gift, in October, 1910, of Charles Holmes, 
 whose ancestress, Betsey Bartlett, the wife of Amasa 
 Holmes, was said to have brought over in the good ship Ann 
 in 1623. 
 
 This mortar and pestle had been kept in the family all 
 these years. It is a precious addition to the other relics in the 
 possession of the Society. 
 
 The place of meeting of the next reunion is left to the selec- 
 tion of the Executive Board. Suggestions, however, were 
 called for by the President in order to ascertain the prefer- 
 ence of the members. 
 
 At 1.15 the meeting adjourned and the members were 
 photographed in a group in the grounds of the Porter Church. 
 Luncheon followed, the blessing being asked by the Rev. 
 William P. Bartlett. 
 
 At 2.30 p. m. the afternoon session was called to order by 
 the President. Social enjoyment was the order of this meet- 
 ing. There were brief addresses by Rev. George A. Smith, 
 Secretary of the American Society of Colonial Families, who 
 has been an honored guest at several of the reunions, and 
 who spoke in his usual forceful and interesting vein. An- 
 other speaker w T as Rev. William P. Bartlett whose remarks 
 were listened to with interest. 
 
 The simple and straightforward manner and earnest 
 words of the President met with the usual warm response 
 from those present. 
 
 Miss Mary A. Hopkins of Weymouth, Mass., a regular 
 and enthusiastic member of the Society, was the vocalist of 
 the day, singing at the morning session the reunion song of 
 this year, words by herself. It was entitled, " Again Do 
 
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We Greet You," and was sung to the air of " Fair Har- 
 vard," or, to be more exact, to that to which Tom Moore's 
 words, "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms," 
 is sung. 
 
 The exercises of the day came to a musical close by the 
 singing, by Miss Hopkins, of the anthem of the " Old North 
 Chapter, D. A. R., the music being " America," and the words, 
 Flag of Our Native Land," by its Regent. 
 
 A general history of the Society of the Descendants of 
 Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Inc., is being compiled by its 
 Historian, and will be published in the near future by the 
 Society. Copies may be purchased at cost upon application 
 to the Secretary. 
 
 Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Lucius W. 
 Bartlett, of Windsor; Mrs. Ermina Bartlett Suhanek, of Hol- 
 yoke; Mrs. Emma Bartlett Thrall, of Windsor; Miss Alice M. 
 Thrall, of Windsor; Charles H. Bartlett, of Dorchester; Mr. 
 and Mrs. Edward H. Tillson, of Naperville, 111.; Rev. William 
 P. Bartlett of Canaan, N. H.; Miss Lucy E. Aver, of Need- 
 ham; Elisha A very Tillson, of South Hanson; R. F. Tillson, 
 of Fall River; Mrs. John M. Rice, of Waltham; Mrs. D. R. 
 Puffer, of West Newton; John A Bartlett; Miss Elizabeth D. 
 Barclay, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Flora A. Williamson; H. A. 
 Bird; Charles Wesley Tower, of Springfield; George Warren 
 Tower, of Hingham; Mr. and Mrs. James E. Bartlett, of Plym- 
 outh; Leroy C. Bartlett, of Marshfield; Mrs. Mary Bird Keith, 
 of East Bridgewater; Mrs. Anna Johnson, of Dorchester; Miss 
 Helen Bird, of East Bridgewater; Mr. and Mrs David T. 
 Burrill; Miss Mary A. Hopkins, of Weymouth; Herman 
 Packard, Mrs. Susan M. Hopkins, of Weymouth; Mrs. 
 E. J. Eager, of Milton; Henry Marshall Bird, of Stoughton; 
 Mrs. Rebecca C. W. Boomer; Miss Mary F. Harlow, of 
 North Easton; Miss Mary L. Bartlett, of Rancocas, N. J.; 
 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Bartlett of Springfield; Mrs. Mary 
 M. Farry, of Dorchester; Miss Isabelle M. Bartlett; Mrs. 
 Jessie Bartlett Sheibley, of Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. 
 George A. Smith, of Boston; Paul W. Conant, of Dorchester; 
 Miss Mary A. Stevens, of Lewiston, Me.; Harold E. E. 
 Stevens, of Lewiston, Me. 
 
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AGAIN DO WE GREET YOU UPON THIS GLAD DAY 
 
 Sung at the Sixth Reunion of the " Society of Descendants of 
 
 Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Massachusetts,' 1 Brockton, 
 
 August 16, 1913 
 
 Tune, " Fair Harvard." 
 
 Words by 
 Miss Mary A. Hopkins, of Weymouth, Mass. 
 
 Again do we greet you upon this glad day, 
 And renew our firm friendship once more; 
 
 And welcome with pleasure fond memory's sway 
 In the hearts that are now brimming o'er. 
 
 In the Home where our ancestors' story is told, 
 
 Which we cherish with fondest delight, 
 In hearts that are strengthened, and friendships enrolled, 
 
 This Reunion now sheds its bright light ! 
 
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IHUS have the years glided by since the 
 Society of the Descendants of Robert Bart- 
 let of Plymouth was launched, and the Socie- 
 ty has grown in strength and in numbers as 
 should be the case. 
 
 What it has accomplished so far is small 
 in view of what its founder and charter 
 members, and the general body hope it may attain. It has 
 grown from the tiny acorn to the stately tree and bids fair 
 to last. 
 
 The motto of the Bartlet coat-of-arms is Mature — in 
 good time, and so we, not without justification, venture to 
 hope and look forward to that "good time" when it shall 
 have arrived at its perfection. 
 
 There remains now but to include the biographical sketches 
 of its officers. 
 
 The Historian feels a most natural reluctance to include 
 in a history compiled by herself, so very flattering a sketch 
 as has been written about her; but she has been warned that 
 her " superior officers " have so ruled and that her respon- 
 sibility ceases when she becomes the subject of the sketch. 
 
 Editor's Note. — Concerning some repetition, it must be borne in 
 mind that mention of the same facts have been necessarily made on sev- 
 eral occasions. 
 
 This is also noticeable in giving the history of the Bartletts of America 
 when different officers or ex-officers treat of the subject. 
 
 There is an old saying, " You cannot have too much of a good thing," 
 and however some of us may be inclined to endorse the statement, and 
 some not, we fall back upon the leniency of our readers and trust to their 
 mercy. 
 
 It has been said also that all poets are mad. I am quite of the opinion 
 that many genealogists are so, or in a fair way of becoming so ! 
 
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BIOGRAPHY 
 
 No. 1 
 LUCIUS WARREN BARTLETT, President 
 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett, the founder and President of 
 the Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet of Plym- 
 outh, Mass., since its organization in August, 1908, was born 
 in Cummington, Mass., April 3, 1841. Cummington was 
 the home town of the poet William Cullen Bryant. Mr. 
 Bartlett was the third child and only son in a family of eight 
 children. His father dying when he was sixteen years old, 
 his education was that which could be obtained in the public 
 schools at that time. He carried on the small farm left by 
 his father, taught school winters, until in April, 1867, at the 
 age of twenty-six he went to Hartford, Conn., and entered the 
 Bryant & Stratton Commercial School as a pupil; received 
 his diploma in three months' time, being engaged to fill the 
 position of Professor of Mathematics in the Bryant & Strat- 
 ton Commercial School, and took up bookkeeping and work 
 of expert accountant as a profession and Hartford has been 
 his residence since, with the exception of ten years, 1872-1882, 
 when he resided just across the Connecticut River, in East 
 Hartford. He built a house in Windsor in 1912, six miles 
 north of Hartford, where he now resides. 
 
 Mr. Bartlett's ancestors are as follows: 
 
 Robert Bartlet (1), Joseph (2), Benjamin (3), Benja- 
 min (4), Edward (5), Ephraim (6), Ephraim T. (7), Lucius 
 Warren Bartlett (8). His mother was Salome Tower, 
 daughter of Warren and Rhoda (Tower) Tower. Warren and 
 Rhoda were descendants in two separate Tower lines from 
 John Tower (1) of Hingham, Mass., 1637, the original 
 ancestor of the Tower Genealogical Society. On the pater- 
 nal side his grandmother was Elizabeth Tillson (7), a direct 
 descendant of Edmund Tillson (1) of Plymouth, 1638. Ben- 
 jamin (4) removed from Plymouth to Duxbury about 1740, 
 where Edward (5) was born. After 1750 Benjamin (4) and 
 his sons Benjamin (5) and Edward (5) were in Stoughton, 
 Mass. Their three houses were only a few rods apart and 
 the cellars were plainly marked at this date. The farm was 
 widely known as the Bartlett farm. The picture of the first 
 annual outing at Brockton, Mass., August 13, 1908, was taken 
 at this Bartlett farm. Edward Bartlett (5) removed with 
 
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his family of twelve children from Stoughton to Cumming- 
 ton, Mass., in 1795. 
 
 Peter Tower (5) removed from Hingham to Cumming- 
 ton near the close of the Revolutionary War. At this time 
 his several children (ten) went there also. Stephen Tower 
 (6), one of the ten, married Anna Bowker of Scituate, April 
 2, 1776. Stephen (6) and Anna (Bowker) Tower had thir- 
 teen children born in Hingham and Cummington. Rhoda 
 Tower (7), mother of Salome was the thirteenth child. The 
 Tillsons, Elizabeth (7), Edmund (7), and Welcome (7), chil- 
 dren of Ephraim (6) and Fear (Waterman) Tilson, born in 
 Halifax, Mass., were in Cummington, Mass., about 1810. 
 Elizabeth Tilson (7) married Ephraim Bartlett (6) son of 
 Edward (5), of Cummington, Mass., October 15, 1812. 
 Edmund Tilson (7) married, November 7, 1807, Phebe Bart- 
 lett (6). She was sister of Ephraim (6). Edmund and 
 Phebe had thirteen children. Welcome Tilson (7) married, 
 August 27, 1820, Leah Tower. Leah Tower's mother was 
 Rachel Bartlett (6), a sister of Ephraim (6). Welcome Til- 
 son (7) purchased the Bryant farm in Cummington in 1834 
 of Austin Bryant, a son of Dr. Bryant, and brother of 
 William Cullen Bryant. He sold the place to William Cul- 
 len Bryant in 1865, having resided there thirty-one years. 
 The parents of Salome Tower died when she, the eldest child, 
 was sixteen years of age. She went to live with Welcome and 
 Leah (Tower) Tilson, and was married in the Bryant home, 
 June 1, 1837, to Ephraim T. Bartlett (7). 
 
 These three families, Edward Bartlett (5), twelve children; 
 Stephen Tower (6), thirteen children; Edmund Tilson (7), 
 thirteen children, owned farms adjoining each other and their 
 homes were less than a mile apart. Four of the children of 
 Edward (5) married Towers, and two of them married Til- 
 sons. From the foregoing four families, one Bartlett, one 
 Tower, and two Tilsons, have descended about four hundred 
 of the Bartlett descendants we have on our mailing list. 
 
 The father of Lucius Warren Bartlett was one of the 
 original " free soil " men, voting in 1840, and who had be- 
 come a Garrison Abolitionist as the term was known then. 
 His farm sheltered the fugitive slave in more than one instance. 
 He was also a leading member in the church which had a 
 free platform. 
 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett was a teacher in the district 
 schools of Hinsdale, Worthington, and other towns, begin- 
 ning his work along these lines when but eighteen years of 
 age. In 1860 he went to New York City and entered the em- 
 ploy of Cutter and Tower, stationers, remaining there one 
 year; his health breaking down, however, he returned to 
 
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Cummington and carried on the farm until it was sold. Be- 
 fore he left New York he saw the steamer that had been sent 
 to reinforce Fort Sumter, and saw the cannon ball mark in 
 her side. He was also fortunate enough to hear Abraham 
 Lincoln's great speech at Cooper Institute at that time. 
 
 A man of strong convictions, of which he has the cour- 
 age, and a close follower of duty, he went in the spring of 
 1866 to Florence and then to Northampton, where he worked 
 for Samuel L. Hill, who owned and operated the mills of the 
 Nonotuck Silk Company. In 1867 Mr. Bartlett went to 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Mr. Bartlett has remained in Hartford, Conn., since 1867. 
 He is now the factory manager of the Sterling Manufactur- 
 ing Company. 
 
 In 1871 he married Mary Chalmers, of Scotch birth, at 
 Thompsonville, Conn., and had six children by her, of whom 
 five are living. His wife died in 1900, and in 1902 Mr. Bart- 
 lett married Mrs. Zilpha (Bartlett) Crozier, she being of Bart- 
 let descent herself. 
 
 Always interested in politics, Lucius Warren Bartlett, 
 in 1884, declared himself on the side of the Prohibition Ticket, 
 and has been interested in the subject of prohibition ever since. 
 He was the treasurer, and has been on the Executive Board 
 of the State Council for several years. He joined the Put- 
 nam Phalanx and was its secretary, compiling its history in 
 a very attractive form, and has been a captain in its veteran 
 corps. He is " Past Grand " of the I. O. O. F. and a trustee 
 in this organization for the past fifteen years. 
 
 Those of us who are privileged to know him as a private 
 individual know his worth and the many acts of helpfulness 
 and kindness which are a marked characteristic of his daily life. 
 
 He has been untiring and most generous in his work for 
 this Society and has filled the position of President with wis- 
 dom and ability. 
 
 The line of Lucius Warren Bartlett is as follows: 
 
 j Robert Bartlet (1) 
 
 ( Mary Warren 
 
 j Joseph Bartlet (2) 
 
 ( Hannah Pope 
 
 \ Benjamin Bartlet (3) 
 
 } Sarah Barnes 
 
 \ Benjamin Bartlet (4) 
 
 1 Hannah Stephens 
 
 i Edward Bartlett (5) 
 
 / Zilpah Cole 
 
 \ Ephraim Bartlett (6) 
 
 I Elizabeth Tilson 
 
 S Ephraim T. Bartlett (7) 
 
 ) Salome Tower 
 
 •j Lucius Warren Bartlett (8) 
 
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Bryant House at Cummington, Mass. 
 
 It is evident that this was a very attractive spot, and was dear 
 
 to the heart of the poet, as is shown by his 
 
 repurchasing it 
 
 Many years ago the poet Bryant presented Mrs. Salome (Tower), 
 wife of Ephraim Tilson Bartlett, the mother of Lucius Warren Bartlett, 
 with an autograph copy of his poem entitled " The Rivulet." It is a 
 matter of deep concern, not only to her family, but to the Society, that so 
 valuable a gift should have been lost in the passage of years. 
 
 THE RIVULET 
 
 This little rill, that from the springs 
 Of yonder grove its current brings, 
 Plays on the slope awhile, and then 
 Goes prattling into groves again, 
 Oft to its warbling waters drew 
 My little feet, when life was new. 
 
 When woods in early green were dressed, 
 And from the chambers of the west 
 The warm breezes, travelling out, 
 Breathed the new scent of flowers about, 
 My truant steps from home would stray, 
 Upon its grassy side to play, 
 List the brown thrasher's vernal hymn, 
 And crop the violet on its brim, 
 With blooming cheek and open brow, 
 As young and gay, sweet rill, as thou. 
 
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And when the days of boyhood came, 
 And I had grown in love with fame, 
 Duly I sought thy banks, and tried 
 My first rude numbers by thy side. 
 Words cannot tell how bright and gay 
 The scenes of life before me lay. 
 Then glorious hopes, that now to speak 
 Would bring the blood into my cheek, 
 Passed o'er me; and I wrote, on high. 
 A name I deemed should never die. 
 
 Years change thee not. Upon yon hill 
 The tall, old maples, verdant still, 
 Yet tell, in grandeur of decay, 
 How swift the years have passed away, 
 Since first, a child, and half afraid, 
 I wandered in the forest shade. 
 Thou, ever-joyous rivulet, 
 Dost dimple, leap, and prattle yet; 
 And sporting, with the sands that pave 
 The windings of thy silvery wave, 
 And dancing to thy own wild chime, 
 Thou laughest at the lapse of time 
 The same sweet sounds are in my ear 
 My early childhood loved to hear; 
 As pure thy limpid waters run; 
 As bright they sparkle to the sun; 
 As fresh and thick the bending ranks 
 Of herbs that line thy oozy banks; 
 The violet there, in soft May dew, 
 Comes up, as modest and as blue; 
 As green amid thy current's stress, 
 Floats the scarce-rooted watercress; 
 And the brown ground-bird, in thy glen, 
 Still chirps as merrily as then. 
 
 Thou changest not — but I am changed 
 Since first thy pleasant banks I ranged; 
 And the grave stranger, came to see 
 The play-place of his infancy, 
 Has scarce a single trace of him 
 Who sported once upon thy brim. 
 The visions of my youth are past 
 Too bright, too beautiful to last, 
 I've tried the world — it wears no more 
 The coloring of romance it wore. 
 Yet well has Nature kept the truth 
 She promised in my earliest youth. 
 The radiant beauty shed abroad 
 On all the glorious works of God, 
 Shows freshly, to my sobered eye, 
 Each charm it wore in days gone by. 
 
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Yet a few years shall pass away, 
 And I, all trembling, weak, and gray, 
 Bowed to the earth, which waits to fold 
 My ashes in the embracing mould, 
 (If haply the dark will of Fate 
 Indulge my life so long a date), 
 May come for the last time to look 
 Upon my childhood's favorite brook. 
 Then dimly on my eye shall gleam 
 The sparkle of thy dancing stream; 
 And faintly on my ear shall fall 
 Thy prattling current's merry call; 
 Yet shalt thou flow, as glad and bright 
 As when thou met'st my infant sight. 
 
 And I shall sleep — and on thy side, 
 
 As ages after ages glide, 
 
 Children their early sports shall try, 
 
 And pass to hoary age and die, 
 
 But thou, unchanged from year to year, 
 
 Gayly shalt play, and glitter here; 
 
 Amid young flowers and tender grass 
 
 Thy endless infancy shall pass; 
 
 And, singing down thy narrow glen, 
 
 Shall mock the fading race of men. 
 
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No. 2. 
 CHARLES H. BARTLETT 1st V. P. 
 
 Mr. Bartlett was born in Boston, educated in the public 
 schools of that city, and is a young man of pleasing person- 
 ality and of an earnest devotion to the Society and all it rep- 
 resents. 
 
 He has been one of its workers since the early days, and 
 his bright optimism is a potent factor in the questions that 
 arise at times, as to the best method to be followed on some 
 given point. 
 
 Where the Bartletts congregate one is sure to see Charles 
 H. Bartlett, ever willing and helpful. 
 
 Mr. Bartlett's home is in Dorchester and his business is 
 connected with the engineering department of the N. E. Tel. 
 and Tel. Co. While this is his occupation he is deeply inter- 
 ested in music, being a composer of song and other melodies. 
 He is also an excellent pianist, and is generally chosen to 
 act as chairman of the committees on music for the several 
 reunions. 
 
 He fills his office to satisfaction and is not afflicted with 
 that most troublesome of creatures, the " presidential bee," 
 but stands ever ready to support the present incumbent. 
 
 Charles H. Bartlett's line of descent from Robert Bart- 
 let and Mary Warren, his wife: 
 
 j Robert Bartlet 
 / Mary Warren 
 f Joseph Bartlet 
 — I Hannah Pope 
 j Robert Bartlet 
 / Sarah Cook 
 j Lemuel Bartlet 
 / Mary Doty 
 
 William Bartlett 
 
 Mary Holmes 
 
 Clement Bartlett 
 
 Frances T. Whittemore 
 j Henry L. Bartlett 
 / Elvina F. Russell 
 
 - Charles H. Bartlett 
 
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No. 3 
 JOHN ALBERT BARTLETT, 2d V. P. 
 
 Young blood among the officers of this Society is repre- 
 sented by the two Vice-Presidents. 
 
 John Albert Bartlett is in his second year of office as second 
 Vice-President. 
 
 He was born in Brockton, where he has lived always, and 
 was educated in the public schools of that city. He was 
 connected with one of the local newspapers and was at one 
 time a clerk in one of Brockton's drug stores. 
 
 His present business is in automobile lines. He is a 
 member of the Porter Congregational Church of Brockton, 
 and is connected with a number of societies and clubs. 
 
 Mr. John A. Bartlett is always ready to act with the 
 First Vice-President in work for the Society, and among the 
 various clubs to which he belongs, the Society of Descend- 
 ants of Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, Mass., stands very 
 high in his regard. 
 
 He is ninth in descent from Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, 
 Mass., as follows: 
 
 John Albert Bartlett's line of descent from Robert Bart- 
 let and Mary Warren, his wife: 
 
 \ Robert Bartlet 
 1 Mary Warren 
 j Joseph Bartlet 
 / Hannah Pope 
 ^ \ Benjamin Bartlet 
 / Sarah Barnes 
 \ Benjamin Bartlet 
 / Hannah Stephens 
 \ Benjamin Bartlet 
 / Susannah Hayden 
 \ Ebenezer Bartlett 
 1 Martha Manley 
 \ George Washington Bartlett 
 ) Harriet Newell Foster 
 { John M. Bartlett 
 ) Martha E. McMillen 
 
 - John Albert Bartlett 
 
 It is the policy of the Society to recognize the younger 
 members of its family and to bestow office upon such, rather 
 than to confine all the honors to its veterans. 
 
 We look for conspicuous service from these two young- 
 men, in years to come; meanwhile they are taking up the 
 work of the Society and are showing commendable interest 
 therein. 
 
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No. 4 
 
 MRS. ERMINA (BARTLETT) SUHANEK 
 
 Secretary-Treasurer 
 
 Mrs. Suhanek has filled the office of Secretary-Treasurer 
 with satisfaction to the Society and has been untiring in her 
 efforts for its welfare. 
 
 Like her brother, Lucius Warren Bartlett, she was born 
 in Cummington, Mass. She was but thirteen years of age 
 when her father died, and at fifteen she began to teach in a 
 summer school. In the spring of 1861 she went to Oneida Sem- 
 inary for one year. In 1863 she taught school at Brookfield, 
 and remained in that work for one year. In 1864 she en- 
 tered the Westfield Normal School, from which she gradu- 
 ated in 1866. She taught at Hadley in that same year and 
 followed the profession of teaching until 1889, when she mar- 
 ried Joseph Suhanek, an Austrian by birth, but a natural- 
 ized citizen of the United States. In 1894 Mr. Suhanek 
 died, and in 1907 his widow removed to Holyoke where she 
 has since resided. It has been an exceedingly difficult 
 matter to obtain data about the Secretary, because of her 
 great modesty in speaking of herself. 
 
 It would be unfair to close this moclest biography of a 
 woman whose work has been so important to the Society, 
 without adding a word as to her personal character. 
 
 Endowed with a peculiarly lovable nature, with a heart 
 open to the needs of all with whom she comes in contact, a 
 writer of very sweet verse and a well-read woman, Mrs. 
 Suhanek goes on in her quiet way, filling a place in this world's 
 economy that is far more important than that of many a more 
 showy person. 
 
 Mrs. Suhanek is the author of a volume of original verse 
 entitled " Songs of Friendship," 1913. 
 
 Mrs. Suhanek's line is: 
 
 j Robert Bartlet (1) 
 
 ) Mary Warren 
 
 j Joseph Bartlet (2 ) 
 
 \ Hannah Pope 
 
 j Benjamin Bartlet (3) 
 
 ( Sarah Barnes 
 
 j Benjamin Bartlet (4) 
 
 / Hannah Stephens 
 
 \ Edward Bartlett (5) 
 
 / Zilpah Cole 
 
 j Ephraim Bartlett (6) 
 
 } Elizabeth Tilson 
 
 j Ephraim T. Bartlett (7) 
 
 / Salome Tower 
 
 j Ermina Bartlett (8) 
 
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No. 5 
 MRS. MARIAN LONGFELLOW, HISTORIAN 
 
 At the Fourth Annual Reunion of the Society of the 
 Descendants of Robert Bartlett (1) of Plymouth, Mass., our 
 Historian gave us a history of the Society from its organiza- 
 tion to that time, August 12, 1911. In that historical paper 
 she included a brief account of the life of its President and 
 other officers not including herself. 
 
 The life of our Historian has been one of such unusual 
 activity in her special line of work that I gladly append to 
 the record of the Society this brief account of it. 
 
 Marian Adele Longfellow was born in Portland, Me., 
 and is a niece of the poet Longfellow, whom we can also 
 claim as a distinguished descendant of our own Robert Bart- 
 let (1). Her father was Stephen Longfellow (5), elder 
 brother of the poet Henry W. Longfellow. Her mother was 
 Marianne Preble, daughter of Hon. William Pitt Preble, 
 Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine and at one time Envoy 
 Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court 
 of the Netherlands. 
 
 Marian Longfellow was educated in and near Boston. 
 She spent sixteen years in Washington, D. C, when she 
 was one of the press correspondents on the White House 
 lists, during the administration of President Theodore Roose- 
 velt. She founded the League of American Pen Women in 
 1897, an organization of newspaper women and authors. 
 She is a charter member, being No. 203, of the National 
 Society Daughters of The American Revolution; a member 
 of the Society of Mayflower Descendants; of the National 
 Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America; 
 of the National Society of New England Women; President 
 of the Daughters of Maine, and is a member of the "Founders 
 Society " of the Massachusetts D. A. R. 
 
 Marian Longfellow founded the Old North Chapter of Bos- 
 ton D. A. R., November 25, 1911, and is its Regent. She is 
 also a member of the Hereditary Orders of Americans of Armo- 
 rial Ancestry and of the Descendants of Colonial Governors; 
 a member of the Alden Kindred of America; Historian of 
 the Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlett (1) of 
 Plymouth, Mass.; former chairman of the Board of Assist- 
 ants of the American Society of Colonial Families; member 
 of the National Geographical and of the National Genealog- 
 ical Societies of Washington, D. C. 
 
 Marian Longfellow married first, William Francis Morris. 
 May 7, 1876, by whom she had three children: William 
 
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Longfellow Morris, a lawyer in New York City; Madeline 
 Preble Morris, now Mrs. Paul Scharf of Washington, D. C, 
 and Henry Wadsworth Morris, of Nevada, who is interested 
 in mining. 
 
 On December 15, 1891, she married second, Michael 
 Francis O'Donoghue, a lawyer in the Patent Office Branch of 
 the Government Service. There are no children by her 
 second marriage. 
 
 At the time of the third annual reunion of the Bartlet 
 Society, June 16, 1910, in Plymouth, Mass., she was invited 
 to make the address, and chose for her subject " Our Pilgrim 
 Ancestors and the Debt We Owe Them." 
 
 As an author, Marian Longfellow has written of the ques- 
 tions of the day, especially along lines of reform ; she has pub- 
 lished a volume of poems entitled " Contrasted Songs," 
 and translated from the French and published " A Romance 
 of the West Indies"; has translated other French works, 
 and has written short stories for adults and children. 
 
 As a lecturer, she has a wide range of subjects, historical, 
 literary, and otherwise, which have won for her much praise 
 throughout New England, New York, and Washington, 
 D. C. She has been of great service to the Bartlet Society 
 during her membership and we hope to claim her for long years 
 to come as our gifted and beloved Historian. 
 
 Sketches of her are to be found in the publication 
 " Woman's Who's Who of America," by The American Com- 
 monwealth Company, and The National Encyclopedia of 
 American Biography, published by James F. White Co., 
 also of New York, besides other books and magazines. 
 
 Ermina B. Suhaxek. 
 
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Lines of Descent 
 
 from Robert and Mary (Warren) Bartlet of 
 
 Mrs. Marian Longfellow 
 
 Historian 
 
 1st line 2d line 
 
 j Robert Bartlet 
 
 J Mary Warren 
 
 j Benjamin Bartlet 
 
 \ Sarah Brewster 
 
 i Benjamin, Bartlet Jr. 
 
 1 Ruth Pabodie 
 
 j John Samson 
 
 } Priscilla Bartlet 
 
 f Peleg Wadsworth 
 
 \ Lusannah Samson 
 
 ( Gen. Peleg Wadsworth 
 
 ) Elizabeth Bartlett 
 
 ( Stephen Longfellow 
 
 j Zilpah Wadsworth 
 
 i Stephen Longfellow 
 
 ^ Marianne Preble 
 
 ■j Marian Adele Longfellow 
 
 Robert Bartlet 
 
 Mary Warren 
 
 Joseph Bartlet 
 
 Hannah Pope 
 
 Joseph Bartlet 
 
 Lydia Griswold 
 
 Samuel Bartlet 
 
 (Mrs.) Elizabeth (Lothrop) Wetherel 
 
 Gen. Peleg W'adsworth 
 
 Elizabeth Bartlett 
 
 Stephen Longfellow 
 
 Zilpah Wadsworth 
 
 Stephen Longfellow 
 
 Marianne Preble 
 
 Marian Adele Longfellow 
 
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MERCER V. TILSON 
 
 Late Vice-President of the Society 1842 — 1912 
 
 Mercer V. Tilson might well have been surnamed " the 
 Honest," for if one quality dominated his other characteris- 
 tics, honesty was that quality. 
 
 Honesty of word, thought, and deed, and no tampering 
 with the truth. He was born October 19, 1837, in Pembroke, 
 Mass., but in 1840 his parents removed to Kingston, Mass. 
 In 1843 they again removed, this time to Hanover, Mass. 
 His parents, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Louisa 
 Alcott, appear to have moved from place to place, doubt- 
 less to better their condition. At fourteen years of age, the 
 boy was apprenticed at the trade of shoe-making, but in 
 1854 was sent to learn the trade of iron-moulding. When 
 President Lincoln called for troops April 16, 1861, Mercer 
 Tilson, who was a member of Co. E., 4th Regt. of the State 
 Militia, was one of the early men sent to Fortress Monroe, 
 Va. He served faithfully through the Civil War, returning 
 to his home in Massachusetts in January of 1866. 
 
 Mr. Tilson, carrying through life the inspiring thought of 
 his Pilgrim ancestors, turned his attention to colonial history 
 and genealogy. He was an earnest worker in these fields. 
 He did notable work in both this Society and that of the 
 Tower Genealogical Society, and gave freely of his time, 
 strength and advice to the descendants of Robert Bartlet of 
 Plymouth. He took a special interest in the erection of 
 the Boulder at Manomet. His enduring memorial is his 
 book, " The Tilson Genealogy," upon which work he devoted 
 many years, and of which mention is made earlier in this 
 report. 
 
 His later days were spent at South Hanson, Mass., and 
 he leaves behind him a record of duties well performed and 
 the grateful recognition of his merit on the part of his 
 associates. 
 
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Ku JHcmorfaro 
 
 In all times and among all nations its dead have been 
 enshrined and preserved from forgetfulness. 
 
 The Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet of Plym- 
 outh, Mass., holds in loving remembrance and places upon 
 its memorial page the following members: 
 
 Mrs. Vesta Bartlett Tower, May 11, 1910. 
 
 Mrs. Alice Bartlett Burdick, January 4, 1912. 
 
 Mercer V. Tilson, Vice-President of the Society, May 29, 1912. 
 
 Mrs. Amanda B. Waterman. June 10, 1912. 
 
 Mrs. Emily Bartlett, March 20, 1913. 
 
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An invitation to attend the Panama-Pacific Universal 
 Exposition at San Francisco, in 1915, has been extended to 
 the Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlet, as follows: 
 
 The President and Directors of the Panama-Pacific Universal Exposi- 
 tion to be held in San Francisco in 1915 have the honor to extend to the 
 Bartlett Family a cordial invitation to hold its 1915 meeting in San Fran- 
 cisco. 
 
 The city has been selected by Congress with the approval of the 
 President of the United States, as the official site for celebrating the unit- 
 ing of the waters of the Pacific and the Atlantic through the Panama Canal, 
 the greatest physical accomplishment achieved by man. The Exposition 
 will not only attempt to show that which is most advanced in invention, 
 most interesting in Art, and of greatest scientific value, embracing all that 
 is most important in the material progress of the world, but it will be the 
 aim of the Directors to make this rank in intellectual interest above all 
 previous Expositions; .to bring together so much of Wisdom, so much of 
 Practical, Scientific Thought and so much of Broad Grasp of the World's 
 important Problems, that the progress of mankind shall be advanced a 
 quarter of a century. 
 
 To assist in achieving this aim, we invite your presence in the City of 
 San Francisco the year Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen. 
 
 Chas. A. Wood, President. 
 
 Rudolph J. Taussig, Secretary. 
 
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INDEX 
 
 Abington (Mass.), 73. 
 Abolitionists see Garrison. 
 Adams, Elizabeth (Bartlett), wife of 
 Seth, 77. 
 Seth, 77. 
 Addresses: — 
 
 President's, 33-34, 48-49, 58-62, 
 
 76, 80, 87-89, 91. 
 Historian's, 38-47, 54-58, 80, 83- 
 84, 91. 
 Akron (Ohio), 71. 
 Albany (N. Y.), 61. 
 Alcott, Louisa, 112. 
 Alden, John, 42. 
 
 Priscilla (Molines), wife of, 42. 
 " Alden Kindred of America," 42, 81, 
 109. 
 Secretary of the, 48, 81. 
 (See also Societies.) 
 Alexandria (Ind.), 72. 
 Alice, the (ship), 61. 
 
 (See also Ships.) 
 Allen, Miss Blanche, 66. 
 Madolin, 66. 
 Mrs. Mary P., 66. 
 Allstine, Mrs. Myra B., 66. 
 America, 38, 61. 
 
 " America," tune of, Miss Mary A. 
 Hopkins sings anthem of 
 
 "Old 
 
 North 
 
 chapter, 
 
 D. A. R., 97. 
 American Biography, National En- 
 cyclopedia of, 110. 
 Colleges, 12. 
 
 Commonwealth Company, The, 110. 
 Society of Colonial Families, 10, 81, 
 83, 96, 97. 
 Secretary of, 48, 81, 96, 97. 
 Board of Assistants, 109. 
 (See also Societies.) 
 " Americans of Armorial Ancestry," 
 Order of, 109. 
 (See also Orders.) 
 Ancestral lines: — 
 
 Charles H. Bartlett, 106. 
 Ermina (Bartlett) Suhanek, 108. 
 John Albert Bartlett, 107. 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett, 100-101, 
 
 102. 
 Marian Longfellow, 111. 
 
 Ancestry see Ancestral lines. 
 Ann, the (ship), 9, 11, 15, 19, 22, 23, 
 35, 38, 39, 40, 49, 55, 59, 60, 
 62, 96. 
 (See also Ships.) 
 Antiquarian research, 26. 
 
 (See also Research.) 
 Arbella, the (ship), 60, 61. 
 
 (See also Ships.) 
 Arizona, 67, 71, 73, 93. 
 Arlington (Cal.), 74. 
 Army, Bartletts in the, 12, 41. 
 
 official register of volunteers in, 12. 
 (See also Professions.) 
 Art: — 
 
 Sculpture, 41. 
 
 noted sculptor, 41. 
 (See also Sculpture.) 
 Articles of Incorporation see Societies. 
 Ashburton (parish of), 63. 
 Ashley, Mrs. Daisy M., 66. 
 
 Miss Sarah M., 66. 
 Associate members of Society of 
 Descendants of Robert Bart- 
 let of Plymouth, rules gov- 
 erning, 10. 
 (See also Societies.) 
 Athens (Ohio), 70. 
 Aurora (111.), 68. 
 Austria, native of, 108. 
 Autograph poem given Mrs. Salome 
 Bartlett by William Cullen 
 Bryant, lost, 103-105. 
 Avon, river (England), 24, 54. 
 swans kept on, 24, 54. 
 (See also Rivers.) 
 Aver, Miss Lucy E., 97. 
 
 B 
 
 Badge, permanent, of Society see 
 Insignia. 
 
 (See also Societies.) 
 Barclay, Mrs. Elizabeth D., 68, 97. 
 Barnard, Mrs. Mabel E., 68. 
 
 Miss Sarah, 68. 
 Barnes, Sarah, 102, 108. 
 Barrington (R. I.), 67. 
 Bartelot, 7, 13, 34. 
 
 Adam, 34. 
 
 (See also Barttelot.) 
 
 i] 
 
Bartlet coat-of-arms, 8, 24, 34, 54, 
 64, 90, 96. 
 heraldic terms of, 8. 
 
 (See also Heraldry.) 
 name of, 9, 12, 13, 54. 
 
 conspicuous in law, divinity, med- 
 icine, army and navy, 9. 
 in later years spelled with double 
 
 t, 40. 
 one hundred and thirty of, on 
 
 rolls of American colleges, 9. 
 previous to 1700, 13. 
 twentv-three original settlers by, 
 87. 
 Bartlet, name of, 
 {See also Bartlett.) 
 Aruna, 25. 
 Benjamin (2), 111. 
 
 Sarah (Brewster), wife of, 111. 
 Benjamin (3), 10, 11, 23, 55, 88. 100, 
 102, 107, 108, 111. 
 record of birth, 88. 
 marriage, 88. 
 death, 87. 
 Ruth (Pabodie), wife of, 111. 
 Benjamin (4), 102, 107, 108. 
 Benjamin (5), 107. 
 Edward, 10, 11, 88. 
 Elizabeth, 40. 
 
 Ephraim (6) see Bartlett, Ephraim. 
 Ephraim (7) see Bartlett, Ephraim. 
 Hannah, 10, 88. 
 
 record of death of, 88. 
 John, 9, 13, 24. 
 
 John, of Weymouth (Mass.), 87. 
 Joseph (2), 2, 11, 35, 55, 57, 100, 
 102, 106, 107, 108, 111. 
 house builded by (1680), 15, 
 16, 32. 
 cradle in, 16. 
 inheritance of, 23. 
 fire-back in house of (1660), 
 
 35, 57. 
 burial place of, 24. 
 Hannah (Pope), wife of, 111. 
 Joseph (3), 111. 
 
 Lydia (Griswold), wife of, 111. 
 Dr. Josiah, Signer of the Declara- 
 tion of Independence, 40, 41. 
 delegate to the Continental Con- 
 gress, 41. 
 Lemuel (4), 106. 
 Lydia, 23. 
 Mary (Warren), 5, 25, 32, 47, 52, 
 
 54, 58, 76, 78, 86. 
 Mercy, 23. 
 Milly, 10. 
 
 Priscilla, wife of John Samson, 111. 
 Rebecca, 23. 
 
 Richard, 9, 13, 24, 25. 
 Robert (1), of Plymouth (Mass.), 
 lines of descent from: 
 
 Joseph (2), Benjamin (3), Ben- 
 jamin (4), Edward (5), Eph- 
 raim (6), Ephraim T. (7), 
 Lucius Warren (8), Ermina 
 (8). 
 
 Joseph (2), Robert (3), Lemuel 
 (4), William (5), Clement (6), 
 Henry L. (7), Charles H. (8). 
 
 Joseph (2), Benjamin (3), Ben- 
 jamin (4), Benjamin (5), 
 Ebenezer (6), George Wash- 
 ington (7), John (8), John 
 Albert (9). 
 
 Benjamin (2), Benjamin (3), 
 Priscilla (4), Susannah Sam- 
 son (5), Gen. Peleg Wadsworth 
 (6), Zilpah Wadsworth (7), 
 Stephen Longfellow (8), Mar- 
 ian Adele Longfellow (9) (1st 
 line). 
 
 Joseph (2), Joseph (3), Samuel 
 (4), Elizabeth (5), Zilpah 
 Wadsworth (6), Stephen 
 Longfellow (7), Marian Adele 
 Longfellow (8) (2d line.) 
 Robert (1), 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17, 
 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 31, 
 
 32, 33, 38, 40, 42, 43, .47, 
 48, 50, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 
 66, 75, 78, 83, 86, 87, 89, 99, 
 100, 102, 106, 107, 112. 
 
 probable burial place of, 24. 
 will of, 23. 
 
 lines of descent from, 100-111. 
 admonished by Court, 24. 
 descendants of, 10, 19, 24, 54, 
 
 90. 
 group pictures of, 14, 56, 90. 
 {See also Societies.) 
 Society to erect memorial on site 
 
 of original house of, 17, 32, 
 
 33, 52, 57. 
 great-great granddaughter, 40. 
 great-grandson, 40. 
 
 maps of site of home of, 51, 58. 
 Robert (3), 106. 
 Robert of Hartford (Conn.), 87. 
 Samuel (4), 111. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth (Lothrop) Wether- 
 ell, wife of, 111. 
 Miss Sarah B., 30, 67. 
 Sarah Elizabeth, 23. 
 Mrs. Sarah S., 17, 20, 21-25, 26, 
 27, 30, 33, 34, 67. 
 vote of thanks to, for valuable 
 services, 52. 
 
Bartlet, Thomas, 13, 24, 41. 
 William, 23. 
 William Francis, 41. 
 Bartlett, name of, 8, 12, 13, 24, 25, 76. 
 
 reason to be proud of the, 41. 
 (See also Bartlet.) 
 descendants, 78. 
 Miss Alice, 66. 
 
 Anna E., 30, 67, 80. 
 Arthur Lucius, 66, 97. 
 
 Mrs. (Leota Grey), 90, 97. 
 Miss Beatrice, 66. 
 Byram, 67. 
 Cecil, 67. 
 Cephas H., 67. 
 Charles, 35. 
 Charles C, 66. 
 Charles Dana, 35, 57. 
 Charles H., 6, 26, 27, 30, 33, 51, 
 67, 79, 80, 81, 82, 90, 92, 96, 
 97, 106. 
 
 ancestral line of, from Robert 
 (1), 106. 
 
 birthplace of, 106. 
 Clement (6), 106, 107. 
 Clyde, 67. 
 Cornelius, 66. 
 Cornelius, Jr., 66. 
 David W., 67. 
 Miss Dorothy R., 66. 
 Earl R., 66. 
 Miss Edith E., 30, 66. 
 Edward, immigration of (1795), 77. 
 
 children of, 78. 
 Edward (5), 100, 102, 108. 
 Edward, 15, 87, 88. 
 Edward M., 67. 
 Edward O., 67. 
 Miss Elsie, 66. 
 Mrs. Emily B., 66, 95, 113. 
 Ephraim (6), 100, 102, 108. 
 Ephraim D., 20, 30, 34, 35, 53, 66. 
 Rev. Ephraim H., 30, 67. 
 Ephraim T. (Tillson), 11, 17, 100, 
 102, 103, 108. 
 
 Salome (Tower), wife of, 100, 101, 
 102, 108. 
 E. Paran, 31, 67. 
 Miss Evelyn A., 67. 
 ^ Faith, 67. 
 Francis, 30, 67. 
 Francis K., 66. 
 Frank K., 66. 
 Frederick W., 67. 
 George E., 66. 
 George Washington, 107. 
 Miss Gertrude, 67. 
 Guy, 66. 
 Harold, 67. 
 
 Mrs. Hattie D., 66. 
 Hattie R., 82, 90. 
 Miss Helen L., 30, 67. 
 
 Helen R., 66. 
 Henry L. (7), 106. 
 Herbert L., 66. 
 Homer, 66. 
 Horace, 66. 
 Hosea C., 35, 57. 
 Howard, 67. 
 Miss Ida B., 66. 
 Irving C, 67. 
 Irving L., Jr., 67. 
 Miss Isabelle M., 30, 51, 67, 96. 
 
 motion made by, 96. 
 James E., 66, 97. 
 John, 6, 12, 17, 19, 20, 57. 
 John (author), 25. 
 John (8), 107. 
 
 John Albert, 30, 66, 90, 92, 95, 96, 
 97. 
 birthplace of, 107. 
 ancestral line of, 107. 
 John Russell, 41. 
 Joseph W., 67. 
 Miss Julia A., 67. 
 Miss Katherine G., 66. 
 Kenneth, 66. 
 
 Miss L. Florence, 31, 67, 82, 90. 
 Mrs. Leota (Grey), 30, 66, 90, 97. 
 Leroy C, 31, 67, 97. 
 Levi, 13. 
 
 book written by, 87. 
 (See also Genealogies.) 
 Mrs. Lillian F., 66. 
 Lucius Warren, 4, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 
 20, 25, 26, 27, 30, 33, 36, 50, 
 51, 53, 55, 58, 62, 67, 75, 78, 
 79, 80, 83, 86, 89, 90, 95, 96, 
 97, 108. 
 biography of, 100-102. 
 ancestral line, 100-101, 102. 
 birthplace, 100. 
 
 bookkeeper and expert account- 
 ant, 100. 
 professor of mathematics, 100. 
 past officer in I. O. O. F., 102. 
 first wife of, 102. 
 
 second wife of, 30, 53, 67, 97, 102. 
 interest in politics, 102. 
 Putnam Phalanx, Secretary of, 
 102. 
 wrote history of, 102. 
 Captain in veteran ranks of, 
 102. 
 founder Society of Descendants 
 of Robert Bartlet of Plym- 
 outh, 100. 
 work for the Society, 102. 
 
addresses before the Society, 17- 
 19, 33, 34, 48, 49, 58-62, 76. 
 80, 83, 87-89, 91. 
 report as chairman of committee 
 
 on memorial, 36. 
 report on Insignia, 85. 
 Miss Mabel M., 66. 
 Marcia J., 30, 66. 
 Marguerite, 31, 66. 
 Mrs. Maria G., 67. 
 Miss Marian, 66. 
 Mary J., 66. 
 Mary L., 97. 
 Matthew H., 67. 
 Mildred, 66. 
 Mildred A., 66. 
 Octavius W., 87. 
 Otis B., 67. 
 Peter, 67. 
 Richard H., 67. 
 Richard S., 67. 
 Richard W., 66, 67. 
 Robert (1), one hundred and sixty- 
 eight descendants of, on ros- 
 ter, 78. 
 Robert A., 66. 
 Robert W., 66, 67. 
 Miss Ruth, 67. 
 Ruth T., 67. 
 Samuel, 40. 
 Samuel Colcord, 41. 
 Miss Thelma, 66. 
 Thomas Edward, 12, 87. 
 Tilson, 66. 
 Truman H., 44. 
 Virgil, 67. 
 
 Colonel Walter B., 13. 
 Rev. Walter R., 33, 67. 
 Warren Tower, 26, 27, 30, 67. 
 Wesley L., 67. 
 William (5), 106 
 William Ashmead, 25. 
 William H., 67, 82, 90. 
 Rev. William P., 67, 96, 97. 
 W 7 . Russell, 67. 
 
 Mrs. Zilpah (wife of Lucius War- 
 ren), 102. 
 Bartlett Engraving Co., 53, 91. 
 
 photo-engravings of the Bartlet 
 coat-of-arms, 90, 91. 
 Bartlett-Tower-Tillson combination, 
 78. 
 intermarriages, 101. 
 " Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," 25, 
 
 57. 
 Barttelot, 7. 
 
 Adam, 8, 13, 24, 54. 
 
 Edmund, 13. 
 
 John, 8, 13, 24, 54. 
 
 Richard, 13. 
 
 Thomas, 13. 
 
 Sir Walter, 24. 
 Bates, Mrs. Amanda B., 68. 
 
 David M., 68. 
 
 Frank, 68. 
 Beacon Hill (Boston), 83. 
 Beal, Jeremiah, 88. 
 Bearce, George H., 67. 
 Belmont (Mass.), 31, 67. 
 Benjamin, Mrs. Melissa, 68. 
 Bible, family, record, 10. 
 
 of Stephen Bartlett Tower, 87-88. 
 
 {See also Records.) 
 
 record of deaths, 88. 
 Bickford, Miss Amy G., 68. 
 
 Lucille G., 68. 
 
 Marshall, 68. 
 Biographies of officers of the Society: — 
 
 Lucius Warren Bartlett, President, 
 100-102. 
 
 Charles H. Bartlett, First Vice- 
 President, 106. 
 
 John Albert Bartlett, Second Vice- 
 President, 107. 
 
 Ermina (Bartlett) Suhanek, Secre- 
 tary-Treasurer, 108. 
 
 Marian Adele Longfellow, Histor- 
 ian, 109-111. 
 
 Mercer V. Tilson, late First Vice- 
 ' President, 112. 
 Biography, genealogy and history, 62. 
 
 (See also Genealogies.) 
 Bird, Frederick H., 30, 67. 
 
 H. A., 97. 
 
 Miss Helen, 17, 20, 30, 53, 67, 97. 
 
 Henry Marshall, 30, 53, 68, 97. 
 
 Henry W., 67. 
 
 Horace A., 67, 82, 90. 
 
 Isaac, 88. 
 
 Luther O., 68. 
 
 Simeon A., 30, 67. 
 
 W. Ellery, 67, 82, 89, 90. 
 
 Zilpha Bartlett, wife of Isaac, 77. 
 Births: — 
 
 in vital statistics of Duxbury 
 (Mass.), 88. 
 
 (See also Duxbury \ 
 Blackinton (Mass.), 30, 68. 
 Blackman, Mrs. Mary E., 68. 
 
 Miss Willmay, 68. 
 Board of Assistants, American Soci- 
 ety of Colonial Families, 109. 
 
 (See also Societies.) 
 Bodfish, David L., 17, 19, 30, 68. 
 Boer War, 24. 
 
 (See also Wars.) 
 
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Bookkeeping and expert accounting, 
 100. 
 (See also Professions.) 
 Books, see genealogies, histories, and 
 
 biographies. 
 Boomer, Mrs. Rebecca C, 31, 67, 97. 
 Boston (Mass.), 36, 39, 44, 61, 67, 68, 
 71. 83, 92, 96, 97, 106. 
 evacuation of, by the British, 40. 
 land in, bought by Peter Warren, 61. 
 John Warren who settled in, 62. 
 Boulder, erected on site of Bartlet 
 home, Manomet, 9. 
 to erect, 36. 
 picture of, 37, 51. 
 list of contributors toward, expense 
 
 of, 53, 82, 90. 
 Secretary of Society writes letter 
 of acknowledgment for per- 
 mission to erect, 58. 
 work of Mercer V. Tilson, relative 
 to the, 76, 112. 
 Boundary line between the United 
 States and Mexico, John 
 Russell Bartlett appointed to 
 set, 41. 
 Bowker, Anna, 77, 101. 
 Bracebridge (Can.), 74. 
 Bradford, Governor, of Plymouth Col- 
 ony, journal of, 39. 
 name of, 60. 
 Family, 42. 
 
 (See also Societies.) 
 Braintree (Mass.), 75. 
 Brant Rock (Mass.), 67, 75. 
 Brewster, Elder William, 42. 
 Street, 31, 47, 50. 
 
 (See also Streets.) 
 Family, 42. 
 
 (See also Societies.) 
 Miss Ada A., 67. 
 Sarah, 111. 
 Brian (a knight), 8, 13. 
 Bridgewater (Mass.), 72. 
 
 once north parish of, now Brockton, 
 88. 
 (See also Brockton.) 
 Brockton (Mass.), 10, 11, 18, 19, 20, 
 30, 54, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 72, 
 90, 92, 96, 100. 
 once north parish of Bridgewater, 
 
 88. 
 " Times," 11. 
 
 photograph group of first annual 
 outing, 55. 
 Brookfield (Conn.), 70. 
 
 (Mass.), 108. 
 Brookline (Mass.), 51, 74, 76, 79, 90. 
 Brooks, Mrs. Nina, 68. 
 
 Brown, Mrs. Mabel, 68. 
 Brooklvn (N. Y.), 69. 
 Brown, William B., 30, 68. 
 Brvant and Stratton Commercial 
 Schools, 100. 
 bookkeeper and accountant at, 10Q. 
 Professor of mathematics at, 100. 
 
 (See also Schools.) 
 Austin, 101. 
 Miss Edith E., 68. 
 Mrs. Sarah W., 68. 
 Bryant estate, 78, 100. 
 
 purchase of, 101. 
 picture of the Bryant home at 
 
 Cummington (Mass.), 103. 
 William Cullen (the poet), 100, 101. 
 home, mother of Lucius Warren 
 Bartlett and Ermina (Bart- 
 lett) Suhanek, married in 
 house afterward the, 101. 
 autograph poem given Mrs. Sa- 
 lome Bartlett by, unfortu- 
 nately lost, 102. 
 Bryantville (Mass.), 75. 
 Builders of the Nation, 54. 
 Bunker Hill, 60. 
 Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, 25. 
 Burdick, Mrs. Alice P., 30, 68. 
 death of, 76, 84, 113. 
 (See also Necrology.) 
 Edwin P., 68, 84. 
 Burgis, Peter, 63. 
 
 Mary, daughter of, 63. 
 Burns, Emily Longfellow, 68. 
 Mrs. John J., 68. 
 Silvia W T adsworth, 68. 
 Burrell, D. S., 51. 
 Burrill, David T., 97. 
 
 wife of, 97. 
 Burton, Charles P., 68. 
 By-Laws of Society of Descendants of 
 Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, 
 to prepare, 20, 26, 30. 
 amendments, 79, 91. 
 extracts from, 86. 
 (See also Societies.) 
 
 C. 
 
 California, 68, 72, 74, 93, 113. 
 Cambridge (Mass.), 87, 96. 
 Campello (Mass.), 30, 31, 67, 75. 
 Canaan (N. H.), 97. 
 Canada, 67, 74. 
 Canton, 11. 
 
 Carlstook (Cornwall), 63. 
 Carver, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Ames, 31. 
 Elizabeth A., 68. 
 Horace A., 68. 
 
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Castine (Me.), fort at, 40. 
 
 (See also Forts.) 
 Castle of Fontenoy see Fontenoy. 
 Cedar Rapids (la.), 73. 
 Chalmers, Mary, 102. 
 Chart of the Harlerian Society of 
 Visitations of Devonshire 
 (Eng.), date of 1620, 63. 
 Charter of the Society of the Descend- 
 ants of Robert Bartlet of 
 Plymouth, 26-30, 34. 
 members, 26-30. 
 list of, 30-31. 
 expenses for, 34. 
 (See also Societies.) 
 Charts see Harlerian Society. 
 (See also Lands.) 
 (See also Maps and Charts.) 
 Cheshire (Mass.), 75. 
 Cheyenne (Wyo.), 67. 
 Chicago (111.), 78. 
 Chilton, Mary, 42. 
 Chiltonville (Mass.), 71. 
 Churchill, Arthur H., 68. 
 Churches: 
 
 Second Congregational Church of 
 
 Plymouth (Mass.), 9, 21. 
 Methodist Church at Plymouth 
 
 (Mass.), 10, 31, 32, 47. 
 Old South meeting-house at Bos- 
 ton (Mass.), 39. 
 Park Street Church at Boston 
 
 (Mass.), S3, 92. 
 Porter Church at Brockton (Mass.), 
 
 85. 
 England, Church of (Established), 
 
 23, 39. 
 Stopham Church in England, 24. 
 Church at Leyden (Holland.), 38. 
 Separatists' Church, 38. 
 Cincinnati (Ohio), 72. 
 Civil War (1861-65), 18, 49, 112. 
 Bartletts in the, 9, 12. 
 commissioned officers by name of 
 
 Bartlett in the, 41. 
 youngest Major-General in the, 41. 
 Clark and Finnev, 34. 
 Mrs. Catherine B., 68. 
 Clinton L., 68. 
 George W., 68. 
 Clark's Island, 23. 
 
 first landing near Plymouth, 23. 
 (See also Islands.) 
 Clerks, town, 9. 
 
 Cleveland, Mrs. Elizabeth M., 68. 
 Kilbourne, 68. 
 Raymond M., 68. 
 Cleveland (Ohio), 73. 
 Coates, Mrs. Anna G., 68. 
 
 Coats-of-Arms, 8, 34, 54. 
 
 description of the Bartlet, 8. 
 eleven quarterings in, 24. 
 crests, 8, 24, 54. 
 motto, 8, 99. 
 photo-engravings of, 90. 
 of the Tilsons (Tillsons), 64. 
 Cohasset (Mass.), 77. 
 
 exodus from, 77. 
 Cole, Zilpah, 102, 108. 
 Colgan, Mrs. Addie Waite, 30, 68. 
 Colleges: — 
 Dartmouth, 41. 
 
 President oi (1877), 41. 
 Cooper Institute (New York City), 
 102. 
 " Colonial," The, 85. 
 subscriptions to, 91. 
 (See also Magazines.) 
 Colonial Governors, Order of Descend- 
 ants of, 109. 
 History and Genealogy, 112. 
 Committees of Society of Descend- 
 ants of Robert Bartlet of 
 Plymouth, on incorporation 
 of Society, 10, 52. 
 music for annual reunions, 106. 
 on place of meeting, 28. 
 Commissioners signing Mayflower 
 Compact, 23. 
 (See also Mayfloiver.) 
 of Corporations, 27. 
 
 (See also Corporations.) 
 Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
 
 see Massachusetts. 
 Composer of music see Music. 
 
 (See also Professions.) 
 Conant, Paul W., 97. 
 
 Roger, 22. 
 Congresses: — 
 Provincial, 60. 
 
 President of the, 60. 
 Continental, 41. 
 Conn, Mrs. Marv M., 68. 
 Connecticut (State of), 12, 19, 26, 30, 
 32, 33, 50, 51, 54, 67, 68, 69, 
 70, 71, 74, 78, 79, 80, 89, 90, 
 93, 97, 100, 102. 
 State Council, executive board of, 
 
 102. 
 Robert Bartlet of Hartford, 87. 
 river, 78. 
 
 across the, 100. 
 towns west of the, 77. 
 Constitution and By-Laws of the Soci- 
 ety of Descendants of Rob- 
 ert Bartlet of Plymouth, to 
 prepare, 20, 26, 30. 
 (See also By-Laws.) 
 
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(See also Societies.) 
 Continental Congress, 41. 
 
 Dr. Josiah Bartlet, a delegate to 
 
 the, 41. 
 value of money issued by, 77. 
 " Contrasted Songs," verse, 110. 
 Cook, Sarah, 106. 
 Cooper, Mrs. Mary D. 
 Cooper see Trades, 
 wine see Trades. 
 Cooper Institute (New York City), 
 102. 
 (See also Colleges.) 
 Cornwall (Eng.), 63. 
 
 Rame in, 63. 
 Corporation see Society Descendants 
 of Robert Bartlet of Plym- 
 outh, 
 articles of incorporation, 26-27. 
 Corporations, Commissioner of, Com- 
 monwealth of Massachusetts, 
 27. 
 (See also Massachusetts.) 
 Correspondent, newspaper, see News- 
 paper Correspondent. 
 Counties: — 
 
 Cornwall (Eng.), 63. 
 Devonshire (Eng.), 59. 
 Kent (Eng.), 59, 63. 
 Sussex (Eng.), 13. 
 (See also England.) 
 Court Street, Plymouth (Mass.), 31, 
 47, 50. 
 (See also Plymouth.) 
 (See also Streets.) 
 Coventry (Eng.), one Richard War- 
 ren, said to have been sheriff 
 of, in 1620, 59, 60. 
 Cradle belonging to Joseph Bartlet, 16. 
 Crests: — 
 
 tower, 8, 24, 54. 
 swan, 8, 24, 54. 
 Cross, William B., 68. 
 
 William W., 68. 
 Crozier, Mrs. Zilpha (Bartlett) see 
 
 Bartlett, Zilpha. 
 Culling, Will, 63. 
 
 Alary, daughter of, 63. 
 William, son of Ann (Warren), 63. 
 John, 63. 
 Richard, 63. 
 
 Thomas (of London, Eng.), 63. 
 Cumberland, 12. 
 
 Cummington (Mass.), 10, 13, 30, 70, 
 73, 74, 77, 100, 101, 102 : 108. 
 house at, 102. 
 
 soon after Revolutionary War, 13 
 Edward (5) Bartlett settles in (1795) 
 77. 
 
 names of other settlers, 87. 
 
 Bryant home at, 103. 
 Cushing, Mrs. Edith I., 16, 17, 19, 
 
 20, 21, 30, 33, 34, 68, 89. 
 Cutter and Tower, 101. 
 
 D 
 
 Dallas (Tex.), 67. 
 Dalton (Mass.), 66, 69, 71, 72. 
 Dartmouth College, 41. 
 President of (1877), 41. 
 (See also Colleges.) 
 Daughters of the American Revolu- 
 tion, National Society, 109. 
 Massachusetts, 109. 
 Founders and Patriots of America, 
 
 National Society of, 109. 
 (See also Societies.) 
 (See also National.) 
 Davis' " Landmarks of Plymouth," 
 60. 
 data taken from, 60. 
 Dean, Mrs. Marian C, 69. 
 Declaration of Independence, 40. 
 
 a signer of the, 40, 41. 
 Deed recorded in Plymouth Land 
 Records, of piece of land one 
 hundred feet square, granted 
 to the Society, 36. 
 (See also Plymouth Land Records.) 
 Descendants of Robert Bartlet of 
 Plymouth, 10, 25, 33. 
 Society of see Society. 
 (See also Societies.) 
 of Colonial Governors, 109. 
 (See also Orders.) 
 Desoe, Harlan J., 68. 
 Harlan T., 68. 
 Miss Madoline T., 68. 
 Devonshire County (Eng.), 59, 63. 
 
 (See also England.) 
 Dewey, Mrs. Carrie K., 68. 
 Dighton (Mass.), 33. 
 Dill, Wallace, 69. 
 Diplomat, 109. 
 Diplomats see Professions. 
 Divinity, 12. 
 
 (See also Professions.) 
 Dorchester (Mass.), 26, 30, 31, 33, 51, 
 67, 69, 72, 79, 90, 97, 106. 
 Heights, camp at, during the Revo- 
 lution, 40. 
 Dotv, name of, 60. 
 
 Mary, 106. 
 Drake, Sir Francis, 22. 
 Francis S., 60. 
 
 " History of Roxbury, Massa- 
 chusetts," 60, 61. 
 
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Dues of the Society Descendants of 
 Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, 
 20, 29. 
 (See also Societies.) 
 Dutch Republic, the, 39. 
 Duxbury (Mass.), 88, 100. 
 
 vital statistics, reference from, 88. 
 births, 88. 
 records of, 89. 
 
 E. 
 
 Eager, John, 69. 
 
 Miss Katherine L., 69. 
 
 Lucy, 69. 
 Mrs. E. J., 97. 
 Earlville (111.), 74. 
 East Bridgewater (Mass.), 20, 30, 67, 
 
 70, 97. 
 Easthampton (Mass.), 68, 69. 
 East Hartford (Conn.), 67, 100. 
 Eddv, Albert, 69. 
 Miss Beulah, 69. 
 Carroll B., 69. 
 Charles A., 69. 
 Miss Ethel, 69. 
 Frank B., 69. 
 George, 69. 
 Miss Grace, 69. 
 Miss Virginia Fraye, 69. 
 Education: — 
 
 of the immigrant imperative, 44. 
 Edward, the Black Prince, 8. 
 Eel River, Plymouth (Mass.), 23. 
 Election of Officers see Officers of 
 Society of Descendants Rob- 
 ert Bartlet of Plymouth. 
 Ellis and Clark, 34. 
 Elmwood (Mass.), 31, 66, 68. 
 Ely (Nev.), 69. 
 
 Emigrants, duty toward, coming to 
 our country, 43. 
 uneducated, a menace to the coun- 
 
 . try, 44. 
 (See also Immigration.) 
 by name of Warren settled in Plym- 
 outh, Watertown and Bos- 
 ton, 61. 
 Enfield (Mass.), 73. 
 England, 8, 13, 22, 24, 35, 38, 39, 57, 
 61, 62, 63, 64, 65. 
 Church of, supporter of the, 23. 
 (See also Churches.) 
 county of Cornwall, 63. 
 Devonshire, 59, 63. 
 Kent, 63. 
 Sussex, 13. 
 
 English blood, intermingling of, with 
 
 that of Holland, incentive to 
 
 Pilgrims to come to the new 
 
 world, 40. 
 
 ancestry should be a matter for 
 
 pride, 43. 
 Bartletts in Parliament, 24. 
 
 Ernley (Sussex county, England), 13. 
 
 Europe, 62. 
 
 Executive Committee, see Officers, 
 election of, Society of De- 
 scendants of Robert Bartlet 
 of Plymouth. 
 
 Exposition, Universal, at San Fran- 
 cisco, 114. 
 
 F. 
 
 Fall River (Mass.), 74, 97. 
 Families: — 
 
 Alden Kindred of America, 42. 
 American Society of Colonial Fam- 
 ilies, 42. 
 Bradford family, 42. 
 Brewster family, 42. 
 Winslow family, 42. 
 Farry, Mrs. Mary M., 30, 69, 97. 
 Ferguson, Mrs. Jane T., 69. 
 Fire-back (1660), 35, 57. 
 Flag, the 
 
 immigrants to honor, 45. 
 " Flag of Our Native Land," sung at 
 
 sixth annual reunion, 97. 
 Florence (Mass.), 67, 102. 
 Florida, 93. 
 Fontenoy, battle of, 24. 
 
 capture of tower of, 8, 24. 
 Forbes, Mrs. Alice Bartlett, 30, 69. 
 Miss Barbara Hyde, 30, 69. 
 George B., 69. 
 Ford Building, 83. 
 Fort " Ethan Allen " (Vt.), 70. 
 " George," Castine (Me.), 40. 
 capture, imprisonment at, and 
 escape from, of General Peleg 
 Wadsworth, second in com- 
 mand of the Penobscot Ex- 
 pedition, 40. 
 " Sumter," 102. 
 
 steamer sent to reinforce, 102. 
 mark of cannon-ball in, 102. 
 " Fortress Monroe," 112. 
 
 (See also Forts.) 
 " Fortress Monroe" see Forts. 
 Forts: — 
 
 " Ethan Allen," 70. 
 " George," 40. 
 " Sumter," 102. 
 
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Fortune, the {ship), 38, 49. 
 
 (See also Ships.) 
 Foster, Harriet Newell, 107. 
 Founder of the Society of Descend- 
 ants of Robert Bart let of 
 Plymouth, 100. 
 (See also Societies.) 
 " Founders Society" see Massachu- 
 sett " Founders " Daughters 
 of the American Revolution. 
 (See also Societies.) 
 Fourth Regiment Massachusetts State 
 Militia, 112. 
 (See also Troops.) 
 (See also Massachusetts.) 
 France, 8, 24. 
 Franklin, Irwin, 69. 
 
 Mrs. Mabel B., 69. 
 Fraser House, Brockton (Mass.), 85. 
 French Ancestry, 42, 43. 
 Freeman's Oath, on list of those 
 
 taking, 61. 
 Freemen, 9, 61. 
 " Free Soil " men, 101. 
 
 (See also Politics.) 
 Fuller, Mrs. Cornelia P., 69. 
 Mary E., 69. 
 Sylvanus, 69. 
 Fugitive slaves sheltered, 101. 
 
 G. 
 
 Garfield (Utah), 68. 
 Garlinger, Mrs. Emeline, 69. 
 
 Miss Ida, 69. 
 Garments of the Pilgrims not confined 
 in color to black and grey 
 only, 42. 
 Garrison Abolitionists, 101. 
 
 (See also Politics.) 
 Garter King of Arms, grants by, 8. 
 Genealogical Societies, 7. 
 (See also Societies.) 
 research, 26. 
 lines, 76, 77, 78. 
 Genealogies: — 
 
 Bartlett, 77, 78, 87. 
 
 Colonial history and Genealogy, 112. 
 
 " Sketches of the Bartlett Family," 
 
 by Levi Bartlett, 13. 
 Tilson, 10, 64, 65, 77, 78, 112. 
 Tower, 77, 78, 87. 
 
 " Wheelers, The, and the Warrens," 
 61. 
 Genealogists, books by, 60, 61, 87. 
 Germany, Holland and, our form of 
 Town meeting derived from, 
 44. 
 (See also Holland.) 
 
 Gilbert, Mrs. Abbey L., 69. 
 Gil man (Can.), 69. 
 Glunz, Mrs. Emily H., 69. 
 
 Randolph, 69. 
 Goldfield (Nev.), 71. 
 Gordon, Miss Dorris (Doris?), 69. 
 Mildred, 69. 
 
 Mrs. Nellie B., 69. 
 
 Ray, 69. 
 Granger, Mrs. Permelia B., 69. 
 Grants of Land see Lands. 
 Gray, Mrs. Martha B., 69. 
 Great Barrington (Mass.), 70. 
 Great Seal of the Commonwealth see 
 
 Massachusetts. 
 Greenfield (Mass.), 67.' 
 Greenwich (Kent County, Eng.), 63. 
 Griffis, William 39. 
 Griswold, Lydia, wife of Joseph (3) 
 Bartlet, 111. 
 
 (See also Bartlet, Joseph (3). 
 
 H 
 
 Hadley (Mass.), 108. 
 Halifax (Mass.), 76, 87, 101. 
 Hamilton (N. Y.), 71, 74. 
 Handmaid, the (ship), 38. 
 
 (See also Ships.) 
 Hanover (Mass.), 112. 
 Harlerian Society, 58. 
 
 visitations of, 59, 63. 
 
 chart of the, 63. 
 
 (See also Societies.) 
 
 (See also Charts.) 
 Harlow, Miss Florence J., 31, 70. 
 
 Mrs. Mary F., 70, 97. 
 Minnie B., 31, 70. 
 Harned, Mrs. Lillian, 70. 
 Harriman (Tenn.), 67. 
 Harrison, A. M., 35, 57. 
 
 Mrs. Mattie B., 70. 
 Hartford (Conn.), 12, 19, 26, 30, 32, 
 33, 50, 51, 54, 67, 68, 69, 73 
 74, 78, 79, 80, 87, 89, 90, 100 
 102. 
 Haskins, Mrs. Angeline T., 31, 69. 
 
 Miss Edith A., 31, 69. 
 Hastings, 8, 13. 
 Hawley, Mrs. Agnes B., 70. 
 
 George, 70. 
 
 James, 70. 
 Haxtun, Annie Arnoux, 58-62. 
 Hay, Mrs. Edith C, 70, 82, 90. 
 Hayden, Susannah, 107. 
 Hayes, Miss Edith M., 69. 
 Ethel J., 69. 
 
 Irving C, 69. 
 
Hedburv, in the parish of Ashburton, 
 
 63. 
 Heraldry, 8. 
 
 heraldic terms and significations, 8. 
 Hereditary Orders, 109. 
 
 (See also Orders.) 
 Highways, surveyor of, 23. 
 Hill, Samuel L., 102. 
 Hill towns west of the Connecticut 
 River, settling of, 77. 
 (See also Towns.) 
 Hingham (Mass.), 13, 76, 77, 97, 100. 
 
 exodus from, 77. 
 Hinsdale (Mass.), 67, 69, 101. _ 
 Historian, past, of the Society of 
 Descendants of Robert Bart- 
 let of Plymouth, see Sarah S. 
 Bartlet. 
 present, see Marian Longfellow. 
 " Historical, Genealogical and Bio- 
 graphical " book entitled see 
 Pierce, Ebenezer W. 
 research, 261. 
 (See also Research.) 
 History, Genealogy and Biography 
 
 see Genealogies, etc. 
 " History of Roxbury, Massachusetts" 
 see Drake, Francis S. 
 the Society of Descendants of Rob- 
 ert Bartlet of Plymouth, 85, 
 96, 97, 109. 
 Hoag, Mrs. Susie W., 70. 
 Hoboken (N. J.), 73. 
 Holland, 3S, 39, 40. 
 
 children of English Pilgrims inter- 
 marrying with people of, 40. 
 form of government, as in town 
 meetings derived from Ger- 
 many and, 44. 
 (See also Germany.) 
 Holmes, Amasa, 96. 
 
 Betsey, wife, of, 96. 
 Charles, gift by, of fire-back, to 
 Society of Descendants of 
 Robert Bartlet of Plymouth, 
 96. 
 Holmes, Mary, 106. 
 
 Remember, 25. 
 Holyoke (Mass.), 10, 26, 30, 32, 34, 
 51, 67, 73, 75, 79, 90, 92, 97, 
 108. 
 Holvoke, Mount, 78, 89. 
 Hopkins, Miss Mary A., 31, 47, 48, 
 53, 69, 78, 80, 81, 89, 96-98. 
 original verses by, written for and 
 sung at Sixth Reunion of the 
 Society, bv, 97. 98. 
 Mrs. Susan J., 31, 53, 69, 97. 
 Hoyt, Mrs. Madelyn B., 30, 53, 70. 
 
 Hotels : — 
 
 Crescent Hotel (Plymouth Mass.), 
 55. 
 
 Fraser House (Brockton Mass.), 85. 
 
 Parker House (Boston Mass.), 52. 
 Hubbard, Mrs. Evelyn B., 70. 
 
 Miss Jennie S., 70.' 
 
 Sarah, 70. 
 Huguenots, 42, 58. 
 
 Illinois, 68, 74, 93, 97. 
 Illustrations: — 
 
 house builded in 1660, 2. 
 portraits: Lucius Warren Bartlett, 4. 
 Ermina B. Suhanek, 6. 
 Charles H. Bartlett, 6. 
 John A. Bartlett, 6. 
 Marian Longfellow, 6. 
 Bartlet coat-of-arms, 8. 
 group picture at Bartlett Farm, 
 
 Stoughton, 14. 
 old house and family cradle at 
 
 Manomet, 16. 
 old fire-back, etc. (1660), 35. 
 Boulder on site of original home, 
 
 37, 56. 
 group picture of Fourth Reunion, 56. 
 Mercer V. Tilson (late First Vice- 
 President), 64. 
 insignia of the Society, 81. 
 Bryant house at Cummington 
 (Mass.), 103. 
 Immigrant, youthful, to educate, 44. 
 duty of Americans to the, 44, 45. 
 rights of the, 45. 
 
 must be taught to honor the flag 
 of their adopted country, 45. 
 (See also Immigration.) 
 Immigration: — 
 undesirable, 44. 
 
 duty of Americans towards emi- 
 grants from other countries, 
 43. 
 (See also Immigrants.) 
 Incorporation of Society of the De- 
 scendants of Robert Bartlet 
 of Plymouth, 10, 52. 
 articles of, 26, 27, 52. 
 contributions towards expense of, 51. 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 " past grand " of, 102. 
 (See also Orders.) 
 Indiana, 30, 72, 93. 
 Indianapolis (Ind.), 30. 
 In Memoriam : — 
 
 Mrs. Vesta (Bartlett) Tower, 112. 
 Mrs. Alice (Bartlett) Burdick, 112. 
 
Mercer V. Tilson, 112. 
 
 Mrs. Amanda B. Waterman, 112. 
 
 Mrs. Emily Bartlett, 112. 
 Insignia of the Society of Descend- 
 ants of Robert Bartlet of 
 Plymouth, 80, S3. 
 
 description of, and price, 85. 
 
 sale of, 91. 
 
 cut of, 81. 
 Intermarriages between English and 
 
 people of Holland, 40. 
 Iowa, 67. 73, 74. 
 Iron-molding, 112. 
 
 (See also Trades.) 
 Islands: — 
 
 Clark's, 23. 
 
 J 
 
 James F. White Company, 110. 
 Joel Munson's Sons see Munson. 
 
 (See also Publishers.) 
 Johnson, Mrs. Anna Bartlett, 26, 27, 
 31, 53, 97. 
 poem written bv, for a Reunion, 
 
 17, 33. 
 Anna M., 70. 
 Miss Elna, 70. 
 Mrs. Mary E., 70. 
 Miss Miriam, 70. 
 Mrs. Zilpha, 70. 
 Juries, grand, 23. 
 
 K. 
 
 Kansas, 70. 
 
 Keith, Mrs. Marv Bird, 53, 70, 97. 
 
 Susan O., 70. 
 Kent (Eng.), county of, 59. 
 
 (See also England. '■ 
 Kenka Park (X. Y.), 69. 
 Kilbourne, Alfred B., 70. 
 
 Miss Beatrice, 70. 
 
 Charles, 70. 
 
 James X., 70. 
 
 Miss Lucv, 53, 70. 
 
 Mrs. Mary, 70. 
 
 Joseph, 70. 
 Kingston (Mass.), 67, 69, 75, 76, 95, 
 
 112. 
 Knapp. Mrs. Agnes P., 70. 
 
 E. Clayton, 70. 
 
 Fordyce L., 70. 
 Knight, Miss Blanche, 70. 
 
 James, 70. 
 
 Mrs. Marv Z., 70. 
 
 Ray, 70. 
 Kratzer, Mrs. Helen K., 70. 
 Kurtz, Mrs. Ada B., 70. 
 
 " Landmarks of Plymouth" see Davis. 
 Lands, 26. 
 
 grant of, to Adam Bartelot, 13, 24. 
 
 Brian (a Knight), 13. 
 records of Plymouth (Mass.), 36. 
 lot of, to Robert Bartlet from Mrs. 
 Richard Warren, 23, 36. 
 maps of, 51. 
 survey and, 36. 
 at Manomet, 23. 
 right of way over, 36, 58. 
 (See also Manomet.) 
 bought bv Peter Warren in Boston, 
 
 61. 
 sale of, to Charles A. Stone, 36. 
 deed of, recorded at Plvmouth 
 (Mass.), 36. 
 Lapham, George A., 70. 
 Law, 12, 109, 110. 
 
 (See also Professions.) 
 Laws of New England have made 
 her famous for good govern- 
 ment and equity, 44. 
 " League of American Pen Women" 
 (Washington, D. C), 109. 
 founder of, 109. 
 Lectures, 110. 
 
 lecturer on colonial, historical and 
 literary subjects, 110. 
 Lee (Mass.), 66. 
 Leicester (Mass.), 61. 
 Leonard, Mrs. James B., 70. 
 Letter to Charles H. Stone from the 
 Secretary of the Society of 
 Descendants of Robert Bart- 
 let of Plymouth, 5S. 
 (See also Societies.) 
 Lewiston (Me.), 97. 
 Lexington (Mass.), 62. 
 
 battle of, 62. 
 Leyden (Holland), 38. 
 Lincoln, Abraham, 112. 
 
 speech of, at Cooper's Institute, 
 
 New York City, 101. 
 call of, April 16, 1861, for troops and 
 response to, 112. 
 Link, Ernest, 70. 
 Mrs. Jessie. 70. 
 Miss Margaret, 70. 
 List of charter members of the Soci- 
 ety, 30, 31. 
 contributors toward expense of me- 
 morial, 53, 82. 
 mailing, of the Society, 87. 
 one hundred and forty-five names of 
 members, on file, 93. 
 
Literature, men of, name of Bartlett 
 
 figures among, 40. 
 Little James, the {ship), 23, 38, 39. 
 
 (See also Ships.) 
 Living Descendants of Robert and 
 Mary (Warren) Bartlet see 
 Roster of Living Descendants. 
 Logan, Mrs. Annie C, 70. 
 London (Eng.), 23, 63. 
 Longfellow, Arthur H., 71. 
 Henry Greville, 71. 
 Miss Ellen T., 71. 
 
 Louise A., 71. 
 Henry Wadsworth (the poet), 25, 
 32, 40, 51. 
 two lines of descent from Robert 
 (1), of Plymouth: 
 Robert (1), Benjamin (2), Ben- 
 jamin (3), Jr., Priscilla (4) 
 Susannah (Samson) (5), Gen- 
 eral Peleg (6) (Wadsworth), 
 Zilpah (7) (Wadsworth), 
 Henry (8) Wadsworth Long- 
 fellow. 
 Second line: Robert (1), Joseph 
 (2), Joseph (3), Samuel (4), 
 Elizabeth (5), Zilpah (6) 
 (Wadsworth), Henry (7) 
 Wadsworth Longfellow. 
 Marian Adele, 3, 5, 6, 32, 48, 51, 52, 
 53, 71, 76, 79, 80, 84, 90, 92, 
 96, 99, 109. 
 addresses of, before the Society, 
 38-47, 54-58, 80, 83, 84, 91. 
 compilation of History of the 
 
 Society, 85, 96. 
 letter of sympathy sent by the 
 Society to, on death of her 
 brother, 96. 
 birthplace of, 109. 
 first marriage, 110. 
 children by, 110. 
 second marriage, 110. 
 two lines of descent from Robert 
 (1) Bartlet of Plymouth, 111. 
 First line: Robert (1), Benja- 
 min (2), Benjamin (3), Pris- 
 cilla (4), Susannah (5), (Sam- 
 son) General Peleg (6) (Wads- 
 worth), Zilpah (7) (Wads- 
 worth), Stephen (8) (Long- 
 fellow, Marian Adele 
 Longfellow (9). 
 Second line: Robert (1), Jo- 
 seph (2), Joseph (3), Sam- 
 uel (4), Elizabeth (5), Zil- 
 pah (6), Stephen (7) (Long- 
 fellow), Marian Adele (8) 
 Longfellow. 
 
 Stephen (4), 111. 
 
 Zilpah (Wadsworth), wife of, 109. 
 Stephen (5), 
 
 Marianne (Preble), wife of, 111. 
 daughter of Hon. William Pitt 
 Preble, Judge of Supreme 
 Court of Maine and E. E. 
 and M. P. to the Court of 
 the Netherlands, 109. 
 William Pitt Preble, 96. 
 death of, 96. 
 sister of, 109. 
 Los Angeles (Cal.), 68. 
 Lovell, Mrs. Eugenia F. B., 30, 33, 
 
 51, 70, 89. 
 Lowell, James Russell, 50. 
 
 poem of, quoted by President of the 
 
 Society, 50. 
 " What is so rare as a day in June," 
 57. 
 
 M. 
 
 Mable, Ann, 63. 
 
 Thomas, 63. 
 Macey, Mrs. Mercie W., 71. 
 Magazines: — 
 
 The " Colonial," 85, 91. 
 Mailing list of living descendants of 
 Robert and Mary (Warren) 
 Bartlet, 66-75. 
 Maine, 31, 40, 73, 93, 97. 
 
 " Daughters " of, 109. 
 Manchester (Conn.), 74. 
 Manley, Martha, 107. 
 Mann, Mrs. Elizabeth Bird, 30, 71. 
 
 Horace W., 19, 30. 
 Manomet (Mass.), 10, 30, 31, 52, 55, 
 
 57, 67. 
 
 White Horse Beach at, 15. 
 
 land at, belonging to Robert (1) 
 
 Bartlet, 23. 
 home of Joseph (2) Bartlet at, 57. 
 boulder (memorial), 9, 36, 37, 51, 53, 
 
 58, 76, 82, 112. 
 Ponds, 9, 35, 579. 
 
 Maps and Charts drawn by Mercer 
 V. Tilson51, 58. 
 
 (See also Charts.) 
 
 (See also Lands.) 
 Marriages, record of, 88. 
 
 (See also Records.) 
 Marsh, Mrs. Elizabeth (Jouat), 59, 60, 
 
 62, 63. 
 Marshall, Mrs. Harriet A., 71. 
 Marshfield Centre (Mass.), 31, 67. 
 
 Hills (Mass.), 75, 97. 
 Mason, Charles N., 71. 
 
 Charles W., 71. 
 
Dorris (Doris?), 71. 
 Dudley, 71. 
 Mrs. Edith, 71. 
 Miss Flora L., 71. 
 Frank B., 71. 
 Miss Marian, 71. 
 
 Martha, 71. 
 Stanley, 71. 
 Walter, 71. 
 Miss Winifred. 
 Massachusetts (Commonwealth of), 
 7, 15, 21, 26, 27, 30, 31, 33 
 34, 39, 42, 46, 50, 60, 62, 64, 
 66, 75, 76, 77, 79, 81, 83, 84, 
 85, 86, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 95, 
 97, 100, 101, 102, 108, 112. 
 Governor of, 
 great seal of, 27. 
 Secretary of, 26, 27. 
 some families of western, 76-78. 
 State Militia of, 112. 
 
 Fourth Regiment, Company E, 
 112. 
 Massachusetts Daughters of the Amer- 
 ican Revolution, Society of 
 " Founders," 109. 
 (See also Socieites.) 
 Mathematics, professor of, 100. 
 
 (See also Schools.) 
 Matthewson, Mrs. Flora, 48, 81. 
 Mayflower, the (ship), 23, 38, 39, 42, 
 49, 60, 61, 62. 
 compact signed on, 23, 38. 
 
 commissioners signing, 23, 57. 
 second voyage of, 38. 
 " log," so-called, of the, 39. 
 Pilgrims, 59. 
 descendants, 89, 109. 
 (See also Ships.) 
 Mayflower Descendants, Society of, 
 banquet of, 39. 
 magazine, 88. 
 (See also Society.) 
 Signers, 58. 
 McCullough, Mrs. A. Starr, 71. 
 McFarlin, Miss Helen, 71. 
 
 Sampson, 31. 
 McGregory, Daniel E., 71. 
 Miss^ Edith, 71. 
 
 Gladys, 71. 
 Harry L., 71. 
 Mrs. Minnie T., 71 
 McGrew, Mrs. Alida, 71. 
 
 Miss Dorothy V., 71. 
 McLouth (Kan.), 70. 
 McMillen, Martha E., 107. 
 
 M< 
 
 the, Plymouth (Mass.), 
 New England, 49. 
 
 of 
 
 Medfield (Mass.), 72, 73. 
 medicine, 12. 
 Physicians, 12. 
 (See also Professions.) 
 Meetings of the Society of Descend- 
 ants of Robert Bartlet of 
 Plymouth see Society of 
 Descendants, etc. 
 Mellen, John O., 71. 
 Lewis B., 71. 
 Orson J., 71. 
 Memorial on site of home of Robert 
 Bartlet, to erect, 17, 32, 33, 57. 
 exercises at site of, 47. 
 fund, 80. 
 work of Mercer V. Tilsm, relative 
 
 to, 76, 112. 
 buildings, 26, 80. 
 expenses of, 34. 
 
 contributions towards, 51, 82, 90. 
 tablet, 26, 80. 
 cost of, 36. 
 
 photograph of, submitted, 36. 
 to Major-Genl. William Francis Bart- 
 let, 41. 
 Memorial shaft at Plymouth, 42. 
 
 (See also Plymouth.) 
 Meriden (Conn.), 87. 
 Methodist Church at Plymouth see 
 
 Churches. 
 Milburn (N. J.), 84. 
 Middleboro, (Mass.), 20, 30,' 31, 68, 
 
 70, 72, 73, 89. 
 Middletown (Conn.), 70, 73. 
 Milford (Conn.), 69. 
 Militia, state (Mass.), 112. 
 
 (See also Troops.) 
 Milk, five quarts of milk the equiva- 
 lent in value of fifteen dollars 
 of Continental money, 77. 
 Milton (Mass.), 97. 
 Mining see Nevada. 
 Mills: — 
 
 Nonotuck Silk Company, 102. 
 Molines, Priscilla, 42. 
 
 robbed of her birthright, 42. 
 Money, Continental, comparative 
 value of, with necessities of 
 life, 77. 
 Montclair (N. J.), 31, 68. 
 Moon, Mrs. Ella B., 71. 
 Morris, Edward Francis, 71. 
 Henry Wadsworth, 71, 110. 
 John Alden, 71. 
 Madeleine Preble see Scharf, Mrs. 
 
 Paul. 
 William Francis, 110. 
 William Longfellow, 110. 
 Winifred Grey, 71. 
 
Morton, Mrs. Martha B., 71. 
 Mortar and Pestle said to have been 
 brought over in the Ann in 
 1623, 96. 
 Motives which brought the Pilgrims 
 from Holland to the new 
 world, 39, 40. 
 (See also Pilgrims.) 
 (See also Holland.) 
 Mount Holyoke, 78. 
 Mount Tom (Holyoke, Mass.), 10, 78, 
 89, 91, 95. 
 Mountain Park, 75, 89, 91. 
 Mt. Holyoke see Mount Holyoke. 
 Mt. Tom see Mount Tom. 
 Munson's Sons, Joel (publishers) , 61. 
 
 (See also Publishers.) 
 Music, composer of songs and other, 
 106. 
 Committee on, see Committees. 
 
 N. 
 
 Napa (Cal.), 72. 
 Napersville (Mass.), 74, 97. 
 National Society of the Daughters of 
 the American Revolution, 
 charter member of the, 109. 
 of Daughters of Founders and Pa- 
 triots of America, 109. 
 New England Women, 109. 
 (See also Societies.) 
 National Genealogical Society, 109. 
 Geographical Society, 109. 
 (See also Societies.) 
 Nauman, Mrs. Polly McFarlin, 31. 
 Navy, 12. 
 
 (See also Professions.) 
 Necrology : — 
 
 Benjamin Bartlet, 10. 
 
 Hannah Bartlet, 10. 
 
 Mercer V. Tilson, 10, 76, 83, 90, 
 
 113. 
 Mrs. Vesta Bartlett Tower, 113. 
 Alice Bartlett Burdick, 76, 84, 
 
 89, 90, 113. 
 Amanda B. Waterman, 76, 95, 
 
 113. 
 Emily Bartlett, 95, 113. 
 Needham (Mass.), 97. 
 Neponset, 69. 
 Netherlands, E. E. and M. P. to the 
 
 Court of the, 109. 
 Nevada, 69, 71, 110. 
 Newark, 68, 75. 
 New Bedford (Mass.), 30, 67. 
 Newbury or Newberry, 9, 13, 24, 25. 
 Newcomber, Mrs. Elizabeth T., 71. 
 
 New England, 22, 38, 39, 44, 61, 95, 
 110. 
 
 colonies, 87. 
 
 laws of, have made, famous for 
 good government and equity, 
 44. 
 (See also Laws.) 
 
 Plymouth the Mecca of, 49. 
 
 New England Telegraph and Tele- 
 phone Company, 106. 
 
 Women, National Society of, 109 
 (See also Societies.) 
 
 Hampshire, 31,40,87,97. 
 
 Haven (Conn.), 30, 67, 70, 74. 
 
 Jersey, 31, 68, 73, 75, 84, 93, 97. 
 
 Lenox (Mass.), 68. 
 
 Milford (Conn.), 70. 
 Newport (R. I.), 9. 
 Newspaper correspondent, 109. 
 
 (See also Professions.) 
 Newton (Mass.), 72 
 
 Highlands (Mass.), 70. 
 New York City (N. Y.), 68, 69, 71, 75, 
 
 101, 110. 
 New York, 61, 67, 68, 69, 71, 74, 93, 
 
 110. 
 Nichols, Mrs. Cora L., 71. 
 
 Miss Leora, 71. 
 Nickerson, Charles A., 71. 
 
 E. Elliott, 71. 
 
 John C, 71. 
 
 Miss Lina B., 71. 
 
 Mrs. Margaret B., 71. 
 Polly M., 71. 
 
 William B., 71. 
 Nonotuck Silk Company, 102. 
 
 (See also Mills.) 
 Norfolk (Va.), 75. 
 Norman Conquest, 24. 
 Normandy, 24. 
 
 Northampton (Mass.), 71, 73, 87, 102. 
 North Auburn (Me.), 31. 
 
 Easton (Mass.), 68, 70, 75, 97. 
 
 Hanson (Mass.), 31, 75. 
 
 Pearl St., Bridgewater (Mass.), 88 
 (Sec also Streets.) 
 
 Yakima (Wash.), 70. 
 
 O 
 
 Oath, freeman's see Freeman. 
 Officers of the Society of Descendants 
 of Robert Bartlet of Plym- 
 outh see Societv. 
 reports of, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. 
 election of, 17, 19, 20, 26, 29, 31, 51, 
 
 84. 
 duties of, 27, 28. 
 vacancies on board of, 28, 
 
Officers and Emoluments, shameless 
 
 traffic in, 44. 
 Ohio, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 93. 
 Old Bridgewater Historical Society, 84. 
 
 (See also Societies.) 
 " Old North " Chapter, D. A. R., 
 anthem of, 97. 
 South Meeting House, 39. 
 (See also Churches.) 
 Olds, Mrs. Ella S., 72. 
 
 Silas S., 72. 
 Olin, William M., 27. 
 Oneida Seminary, 108. 
 Open letter of Mercer V. Tilson see 
 
 Tilson. 
 Opie, Sarah, 63. 
 
 Nich., 63. 
 Orcutt, Alpheus, 72. 
 Orders: — 
 
 " Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows," 102. 
 hereditary : 
 
 " Americans of Armorial Ances- 
 try," 109. 
 " Descendants of Colonial Gov- 
 ernors," 109. 
 Oregon, 68, 70. 
 Otis, name of, 60. 
 James, 60. 
 Mercy, 60. 
 " Our Pilgrim Ancestors," address, 
 38-47. 
 
 Pabodie, Ruth, wife of Benjamin 
 
 (3) Bartlett, 111. 
 Pacific Ocean alone barred further 
 emigration from the East, 
 77. 
 Packard, Miss Anna E., 72. 
 
 Charles A., 72. 
 
 Charles E., 72. 
 
 Clayton L., 72. 
 
 Clifford I., 72. 
 
 Cliffords., 72. 
 
 Cyrus W., 72. 
 
 Frank, 72. 
 
 George O., 72. 
 
 Harley, 72. 
 
 Harold C, 72. 
 
 Harry, 72. 
 
 Henry, 72. 
 
 Herman, 17, 20, 30, 72, 97. 
 
 Miss Ida M., 72. 
 
 John H., 72. 
 
 Joseph A., 72. 
 
 Miss Lillian, 72. 
 Lucv. 72. 
 
 Luther W., 72. 
 
 Miss Margaret A., 72. 
 
 Margorie, 72. 
 Mrs. Mary C, 72. 
 
 Mary Carr, 30, 72. 
 Miss Mary E., 72. 
 
 Minnie R., 72. 
 Muriel, 72. 
 Miss Olive M., 72. 
 Parker, 72. 
 Miss Rachel A., 72. 
 
 Rachel M., 72. 
 Ralph A., 72. 
 Robert B., 72. 
 Miss Ruth A., 72. 
 
 Ruth E., 72. 
 Thomas T., 72. 
 Walter A., 72. 
 William, 72. 
 Palmer (Mass.), 19, 30, 68. 
 Panama Canal, 113. 
 Panama-Pacific Universal Exposition 
 at San Francisco (Cal.), 1915, 
 114. 
 invites Society of Descendants of 
 Robert Bartlet of Plymouth 
 to attend, 114. 
 Park Street Church (Boston), 83, 92. 
 
 (See also Churches.) 
 Parker House (Boston), agreement of 
 incorporation of Society, 
 signed at the, 52. 
 (See also Incorporation.) 
 Parliament (England), 24. 
 Bartletts in, 24. 
 (See also English.) 
 Pasadena (Cal.), 72. 
 Payson, George E., 72. 
 Mrs. Jerusha H., 72. 
 Julia R., 72. 
 Peacham (Vt.), 67. 
 Peabody see Pabodie (old form). 
 Pease, Kenneth, 72. 
 Pembroke (Mass.), 112. 
 Pension of Nathaniel Tower, 77. 
 Pennsylvania, 68, 93, 97. 
 Peoria (Ariz.), 67, 71, 73. 
 Perkins, Mrs. Amanda B., 72. 
 Philadelphia (Pa.), 68, 97. 
 Physicians see Medicine. 
 (See also Professions.) 
 Photograph of Memorial submitted, 
 36, 51. 
 members of the Society, 14, 56, 96, 
 100. 
 Pierce, Ebenezer, 62. 
 
 book by, entitled " Historical, Gen- 
 ealogical and Biographical," 
 62. 
 
(See also Genealogies.) 
 Pilgrim " Mothers " also worthy of 
 
 note, 40. 
 Pilgrims, 9, 15, 17, 22, 23, 38, 39, 40, 
 42, 43, 44, 49, 58, 59, 60, 62. 
 motives which brought the, to the 
 
 new world, 39, 40. 
 spirit of the, 43, 46. 
 debt we owe them, 38-47. 
 jests at expense of the term "Plym- 
 outh Rock," 45. 
 Pilgrims, singleness of purpose of the, 
 47. 
 Richard Warren, the Pilgrim, who 
 came over in the Mayflower 
 (1620), 61. 
 Pittsneld(Mass.), 67, 70. 
 Plaine Joan, the (ship), 61. 
 (See also Ships.) 
 
 John Warren who came in, 62. 
 Plainfield (Mass.), 72. 
 Plymouth (Eng.), 63. 
 Plymouth (Mass.), 3, 9, 10, 11, 15i 
 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 
 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 42, 50, 
 51, 54, 55, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 
 65, 66, 68, 70, 71, 73, 75, 76, 
 80, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 
 96, 97, 99, 100, 110, 112. 
 memorial shaft at, 42. 
 the Mecca of New England, 49. 
 land records of, 36. 
 town records, 23, 88. 
 colonial history of, 13. 
 objects of interest at, 15. 
 Colony, 23, 26, 41. 
 White Horse beach, 55. 
 Eel river, 23. 
 Court Street, 3, 47. 
 Brewster Street, 31, 47. 
 deed of land to Society, recorded at, 
 
 36. 
 South, 9. 
 Rock, 45. 
 
 settlement, 9. 
 (See also Settlements.) 
 (N. H.), 31. 
 Politics: — 
 
 Abolitionist, Garrison, 102. 
 Prohibition, 102. 
 " Free Soil," 102. 
 Pope, Hannah, 102, 106, 108. 
 Porter, Mrs. H. G., 72. 
 Church, 85. 
 (See also Churches.) 
 Portland (Me.), 71, 109. 
 
 (Ore.), 68, 70. 
 Powers, Samuel, 46. 
 Pratt, Mrs. Elizabeth B., 53, 72. 
 
 Preble, Hon, William Pitt, Judge of 
 the Supreme Court of Maine, 
 and foreign minister to the 
 Court of the Netherlands, 109. 
 Marianne, daughter of, and wife of 
 Stephen (5) Longfellow, 111. 
 Press correspondent on White House 
 list, 109. 
 (See also Professions.) 
 Professions: — 
 army, 12. 
 Bartlett, name of, figures among 
 
 the, 40. 
 bookkeeping and expert account- 
 ing, 100. 
 diplomat, 109. 
 divinity, 12. 
 law, 12. 
 literature, 108. 
 poetry, 108. 
 medicine, 12. 
 
 physicians, 12. 
 Navy, 12. 
 
 newspaper correspondent of White 
 House (Washington, D. C.) list, 109. 
 surveyors, 23. 
 teachers, 101, 108. 
 Prohibition ticket, 102. 
 
 (See also Politics.) 
 Providence (R. I.), 33, 41, 52, 75. 
 Provincial Congress, 60. 
 President of the, 60. 
 (See also Congresses.) 
 Publications, 26. 
 Publishers: — 
 
 Joel Munson's Sons, 61. 
 Puffer, D. R., 97. 
 
 Mrs. Mary T., wife of, 97. 
 Puritans, 38, 39, 44, 58. 
 Putnam Phalanx: — 
 Secretary of, 102. 
 Captain in veteran corps of, 102. 
 history of, written by Lucius Warren 
 Bartlett, 102. 
 
 R. 
 
 Race intermarriages: — 
 
 Dutch and English, 40. 
 Rame (Cornwall, Eng.), 63. 
 Rancocas (N. J.), 97. 
 Randall, Harrison E., 73. 
 
 Herbert, 73. 
 Records in a family Bible, 10, 87, 88. 
 
 of the town of Plymouth, 23. 
 will of Robert (1) Bartlet in, 23. 
 
 of the Bartlet Family, 24. 
 
 land, of Plymouth, 36. 
 
 of the Society, relative to the memo- 
 rial to Robert Bartlet, 58. 
 
of deaths, 88. 
 marriages, 88. 
 
 marriage of Hannah Stevens to 
 Benjamin Bartlet, 88. 
 Reed, Mrs. Phebe A., 73. 
 Reports of the President of the Soci- 
 ety, relative to its incorpora- 
 tion, 52. 
 as Chairman Committee on Memo- 
 rial see Memorial. 
 Treasurer, 34, 53, 82, 89, 92. 
 Secretary, 32, 33, 34, 48, 50-53, 78- 
 
 82, 89-92. 
 Historian, 21, 22, 25, 57, 92-93, 
 94-95. 
 (See also Society.) 
 Research, antiquarian, 26. 
 historical, 26. 
 genealogical, 26. 
 Revolutionary War (1775-83), 18, 77. 
 Cummington (Mass.), soon after 
 the close of the, 13, 87, 101. 
 named of those who settled, 87. 
 Nathaniel Tower, a soldier in the, 77. 
 " high cost of living " as shown by 
 the purchasing value of his 
 pension, 77. 
 Rhode Island, 33, 67, 75. 
 
 Secretary of State (1855-1872), 41. 
 Rice, Miss Jessie K., 73. 
 Airs. Joanna T., 73. 
 John M., 97. 
 Lilla E., 73. 
 Ralph, 73. 
 Richards, John, 63. 
 Richmond (Cal.), 68. 
 Richville (N. Y.), 67. 
 Ritchie, Airs. Hortense K., 73. 
 Rivers : — 
 
 Avon, the (England), 24, 54. 
 Connecticut, the, 77, 78. 
 Eel (Plymouth, Mass.), 23. 
 " Rivulet," the, autograph poem writ- 
 ten by, and given by William 
 Cullen Bryant to Mrs. Sa- 
 lome Bartlet, unfortunately 
 lost, 103-105. 
 Robbins, Hiram, 73. 
 Loring, 31, 73. 
 Aliss Susan B., 73. 
 Robinson, Miss Flora B., 73. 
 
 Rev. John, 38. 
 Rockford (111.), 74. 
 Rockport (Mass.), 67. 
 Roosevelt, Theodore, administration 
 
 of, 109. 
 Roster of Living Descendants of Rob- 
 ert and Mary (Warren) Bart- 
 let of Plymouth, 66-75. 
 
 Roxbury (Mass.), 20, 26, 30, 34, 67, 
 70, 71. 
 history of, by Francis S. Drake, 60. 
 Russell, Elvina F., 106. 
 
 Salem (Mass.), 60, 61. 
 Salt Lake City (Utah), 30, 67, 69, 70. 
 Sampson, Airs. Mary H., 73. 
 Samson, John, 111. 
 
 Priscilla (Bartlet), wife of, 111. 
 
 Susannah, daughter of, 111. 
 
 and wife of General Peleg W T ads- 
 worth, 111. 
 San Francisco (Cal.), 113. 
 Scharf, Dorothy Ellen, 73. 
 
 Eugene Arnold, 73. 
 
 Mrs. Paul (Madeleine Preble Mor- 
 ris), 73, 110. 
 
 Priscilla Alden, 73. 
 Schools: — 
 
 Bryant and Stratton, at Hartford 
 (Conn.), 100. 
 
 professor of mathematics in, 100. 
 
 bookkeeper and expert account- 
 ant, 100. 
 Schultz, Earl, 73. 
 
 Elva, 73. 
 
 Howard, 73. 
 
 Miss Mildred, 73. 
 Ruby, 73. 
 
 Mrs. Velva M., 73. 
 Science, name of Bartlett figures 
 
 among men of, 40. 
 Scituate (Mass.), 77, 101. 
 Sculpture, 41. 
 
 noted sculptor, 41. 
 Seattle (Wash.), 68, 69. 
 Second Congregational Church at 
 Plymouth (Mass.), 9. 
 
 (See also Plymouth.) 
 
 (See also Churches.) 
 Secretary-Treasurer, office of, 108. 
 Separatists' church, 38. 
 
 (See also Churches.) 
 Settlements: ■ — ■ 
 
 first white, previous to 1639, 9. 
 
 Plymouth Rock, 9. 
 
 Second Precinct, 9. 
 
 clerks of, 9. 
 
 Pilgrim, 9. 
 Sheriff of Coventry (Eng.) see Cov- 
 entry. 
 Ships: — 
 
 Alice, the, 61. 
 
 Ann, the, 9, 11, 15, 19, 22, 23, 38, 
 40, 49, 55, 60, 62, 96. 
 
Arbella, the, 60, 61. 
 Fortune, the, 38. 
 Handmaid, the, 38. 
 Little James, the, 23, 38. 
 Mayflower, the, 23, 38, 39, 42, 49, 
 
 60. 
 Plaine Joan, the, 61, 62. 
 Shoe-making, 112. 
 
 (See also Trades.) 
 Short, Mrs. Josephine F., 73. 
 Sidnam (England), 63. 
 Signer of the Declaration of Independ- 
 ence, a, 40, 41. 
 (See also Bartlet, Dr. Josiah.) 
 Simmons, Mrs. Mary B., 73. 
 
 Moses, 53. 
 Singleton, Mrs. Blanche K., 73. 
 Miss Clara I., 73. 
 Frank E., 73. 
 Mrs. Lucy B., 73. 
 Slaves see Fugitive Slaves. 
 Smart, Mrs. Mary K., 73. 
 Sidney, Jr., 73. 
 Miss Virginia, 73. 
 Smith, Miss Dorris (Doris?), 73. 
 George A., 48, 81, 97. 
 Mrs. George A., 97. 
 Capt. John, 22, 97. 
 Karl D., 73. 
 Kirby, 73. 
 Lawrence F., 73. 
 Lindsley, Company, 34, 53. 
 Ralph W., 73. 
 Miss Verna, 73. 
 Walter, 73. 
 Societies: — 
 
 " Alden Kindred of America," 42, 
 81, 109. 
 Secretary of the 48, 81. 
 " American Society of Colonial Fam- 
 ilies," 10/42, 81, 83, 85. 94. 
 banquets of the, 83. 
 Board of Assistants, 109. 
 magazine of the, 85. 
 Secretary of the, 48, 81, 85, 94. 
 " Antiquity, Society of " (Worces- 
 ter, Mass.), 12. 
 corresponding member of the, 12. 
 " Bradford Family," 42. 
 " Brewster Family," 42. 
 " Daughters of the American Revo- 
 lution," 109. 
 11 Daughters of Founders and Pat- 
 riots of America," 109. 
 " Daughters of Maine," 109. 
 " Descendants of Robert Bartlet of 
 Plymouth," 10, 19, 24, 54. 
 call to organize the, 11. 
 by-laws of, 20, 26, 30, 79, 86, 91. 
 
 Bartlett kindred, 49, 54. 
 insignia of the, 80, 83, 85. 
 " Founders Societv " of the Massa- 
 chusetts D. A. R., 109. 
 " Genealogical, National," 109. 
 " Geographical, National," 109. 
 " Harlerian Societv " (England), 58, 
 59. 
 (See also England.) 
 " Mayflower Descendants," 39, 89, 
 
 ' 109. 
 " Old Bridgewater Historical Soci- 
 ety," 84. 
 " Tower Genealogical Society," 48, 
 
 57, 81. 
 " Winslow Family " and others, 42. 
 Society, the, unless otherwise specified 
 see Society of the Descend- 
 ants of Robert Bartlet of 
 Plymouth. 
 Society of the Descendants of Robert 
 Bartlet of Plymouth, Inc., 
 10, 11, 15, 21, 26, 32, 36, 47, 
 52, 55, 57, 58, 83, 84. 87, 89, 
 92, 95, 99. 
 first meeting, 10. 
 
 second reunion, 15, 16, 17, 32, 57. 
 election of officers, 17, 19, 20, 26, 33, 
 
 51, 96. 
 President's address, 17-19. 
 report of Secretary, 19, 20. 
 permanent organization formed, 19. 
 list of Charter Members, 30-31. 
 third annual reunion, 31, 47, 57. 
 records of, 50-53. 
 election of officers, 31, 111. 
 old, dissolved, charter of new ac- 
 cepted, 52. 
 deed of land to, 36. 
 
 letter to Charles H. Stone, from 
 Secretary of, 58. 
 dues of, 20, 79, 83. 
 constitution and by-laws, 20. 
 report of Treasurer, 21, 82. 
 
 Historian, 21, 22, 25. 
 third reunion, 31, 57. 
 bv-laws, 26, 30. 
 'amendments to, 29^30, 79, 80. 
 duties of officers, 27, 28. 
 vacancies in office, how filled, 28 
 meetings, 28. 
 fourth annual reunion, 47, 78-82. 
 address of President, 48, 49, 50, 78. 
 order of exercises, 47, 48. 
 roll-call of members, 78, 79. 
 election of officers, 79, 90. 
 fiscal year of, 79, 80. 
 associate members of, 79. 
 
Roster of living descendants, 66-75. 
 fifth annual reunion, 75-83, 89-91. 
 President's address, 76-78. 
 Secretary's report, 89-92. 
 Historian's report, 83, 84, 94, 95. 
 permanent insignia of, 80. 
 sixth annual reunion of, 85-97. 
 call for, 85. 
 programme of, 85. 
 President ' s address, 87-89. 
 Insignia of the Society, 80, 83, 85. 
 
 description and price, 85. 
 gifts to the, 96. 
 mailing list of, 87. 
 meeting of executive board of, 92. 
 general history of, to print, 96. 
 place of meeting of, 92. 
 policy of the, 107. 
 loss and gain in membership, 94. 
 growth of, 95. 
 
 members held in loving remem- 
 brance by the, 112. 
 invitation to the Society to attend 
 the Panama-Pacific Universal 
 Exposition in 1915, 114. 
 Somerville (Mass.), 71. 
 " Songs of Friendship," volume of 
 verse by Ermina (Bartlett) 
 Suhanek, 108. 
 Soule, Mrs. Amanda B., 31. 
 South Boston (Mass.), 81. 
 Braintree (Mass.), 81. 
 Cowes (Mass.), 71. 
 Hanson (Mass.), 26, 30, 33, 64, 74, 
 
 76, 79, 84, 88, 90, 97, 112. 
 Plymouth (Mass.), 9, 35, 57. 
 Spence, Miss Eva, 74. 
 
 Mrs. Lulu B., 74. 
 Spokane (Wash.), 68. 
 Springfield (Mass.), 30, 31, 66, 69, 70, 
 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 90, 91, 97. 
 Squier, Mrs. Cora B., 73. 
 Standish, Myles, 42. 
 State Council of Connecticut, Executive 
 Board of , member of the, 102. 
 Stationers, 101. 
 
 Stephens, Hannah see Stevens. 
 Sterling Manufacturing Company, 102. 
 Sternberger, Jesse H., 73. 
 
 William A., 73. 
 Stevens, Hannah, 102, 108. 
 marriage of, 88. 
 (See also Records.) 
 Harold E. E., 97. 
 Mrs. Mary A., 97. 
 Stone, Charles A., 36. 
 sale of land to, 36. 
 letter to, from the Secretary of the 
 Society, 58. 
 
 Stopham (Sussex County, England), 
 13, 24. 
 church, 24. 
 Stoughton (Mass.), 10, 11, 14, 19, 30, 
 54, 68, 71, 76, 88, 89, 97, 100, 
 101. 
 removal of Edward Bartlett from, 
 77, 87. 
 Stowell, Deborah, of Hingham (Mass.), 
 
 77. 
 Stranger within our gates, the debt 
 
 we owe the, 43. 
 Stratton, Bryant and, School, 100. 
 
 (See also Schools.) 
 Streeter, Mrs. Vesta W., 73. 
 Streets: — 
 
 Brewster (Plymouth, Mass.), 31, 
 
 47, 50. 
 Court (Plymouth, Mass.), 31, 47, 
 
 50. 
 Park (Boston, Mass.), 83, 93. 
 North Main (Brockton, Mass.), 85. 
 North Pearl (Bridgewater, Mass.), 
 88. 
 Strong, Mrs. Eunice B., 73. 
 Sturtevant, Miss Alice, 73. 
 Aimer V., 73. 
 Miss Zilpha, 73. 
 Suhanek, Ermina (Bartlett), 6, 26, 27, 
 30, 32, 34, 48, 51, 53, 73, 75, 
 79, 81, 83, 86, 90, 91, 92, 94, 
 95,96, 97, 110. 
 reports of, 32, 33, 34, 48, 50-53, 
 
 78-82, 89-91, 92, 95, 97. 
 letter of, to Charles H. Stone, 58. 
 birthplace of, 108. 
 faithful services of, 95. 
 teacher, 108. 
 
 ancestral line from Robert (1), 108. 
 author of " Songs of Friendship," 
 
 108. 
 Joseph, 108. 
 
 birthplace of, 108. 
 Superior (Wis.), 70. 
 Supreme Court of Maine, Judge of the, 
 109. 
 (See also Law.) 
 Sussex County (England), 13, 24. 
 Swans, 8, 24. 
 Sylvester, John E., 73. 
 
 Tablet, bronze, see Boulder, 
 tablets, 26. 
 expenses of, 34. 
 list of contributors towards expense 
 of, 53. 
 (See also Memorial.) 
 
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Tacoma (Wash.), 67. 
 
 Taunton (Mass.), 71. 
 
 Taussig, Rudolph J., 114. 
 
 Taylor, Zachary {President of the 
 
 United States), 41. 
 Teachers, 100, 108. 
 
 (See also Professions.) 
 Tennessee, 67. 
 Texas, 67, 93. 
 Thetford (Vt.), 25. 
 Thompsonville (Conn.), 102. 
 Thrall, Miss Alice, 74, 80, 90, 97. 
 Emma B., 30, 74, 97. 
 Joseph B., 74. 
 Oliver J., 30. 
 Throw, Miss Bessie, 74. 
 Mrs. Ida B., 74. 
 Margaret, 74. 
 Nancy, 74. 
 Tillson, Arthur, 74. 
 Miss A. Lenore, 74. 
 Byron W., 74. 
 Cyrus M., 74. 
 Miss Dorothy F., 74. 
 Earl, 74. 
 Edward H., 97. 
 Mrs. Edward H., 97. 
 Edmund, 74, 87. 
 Elisha Avery, 97. 
 John A., 74. 
 Miss Mabel, 74. 
 
 Marian, 74. 
 Mercer V. see Tilson. 
 Roland F., 53, 74, 97. 
 Elizabeth (7), wife of Ephraim (6) 
 
 Bartlett, 101, 108. 
 Edmund (7), 100, 101. 
 
 Phebe Bartlett, wife of, 101. 
 Welcome ( ), 101. 
 
 Leah Tower, wife of, 101. 
 Ephraim (6), 101. 
 
 Fear (Waterman), 101. 
 Tilson, name of, 13, 15, 64, 76, 78. 
 (See also Tillson.) 
 family of, 64, 77-78. 
 (See also Tilson Genealogy.) 
 Edmond, 65. 
 Edmund, 13. 
 John Q., 30, 74. 
 
 Mercer V., 26, 27, 30, 33, 36, 51, 
 58, 64, 74, 79, 82, 88. 
 bill rendered by, 34. 
 open letter of, 64, 65. 
 maps of land, made by, 58. 
 death of, 10, 76, 84, 90, 113. 
 soldier, genealogist and author, 
 
 84. 
 biography of, 112. 
 tribute to, 112. 
 
 farm, 77. 
 Elizabeth, 102. 
 Welcome, 78, 87. 
 
 Leah Tower, wife of, 78. 
 descendants of Edmund, 78. 
 Genealogy, 10, 64, 65, 84, 88, 112. 
 
 price of, 65. 
 (See also Genealogies.) 
 Tipton (la.), 67, 74. 
 Toledo (Ohio), 75. 
 
 Tower of Fontenoy, capture of, 8, 24. 
 Tower, name of, 13. 
 
 John (1), of Hingham (Mass.), 100. 
 genealogical lines, 76, 77, 78. 
 genealogy, 87, 112. 
 Leah, date of death of, 77. 
 
 wife of Welcome Tilson, 78. 
 Luther B., 87. 
 Steven, 87. 
 
 (See also Stephen.) 
 line of, 77. 
 
 records in family Bible of, 87, 88. 
 Anna (Bowker), wife of, 77, 101. 
 Rhoda (7), 101. 
 Nathaniel, 77. 
 
 a pensioner of the Revolutionary 
 
 War. 
 (See also Revolutionary War.) 
 Milly (Bartlett), 87, 88. 
 descendants of John, one hundred 
 and sixty-eight on roster, 78. 
 George Warren, 48, 81. 
 Walter, 74. 
 
 Genealogical Society, 57, 81, 87, 100. 
 officers and members of the, 76. 
 (See also Societies.) 
 Peter (5), 87, 101. 
 line of, 77. 
 
 Deborah (Stowell), wife of, 77. 
 Salome, 100, 101, 102, 108. 
 Charles W., 74, 97. 
 Charlemagne, representative of, 87. 
 Cullen, 74. 
 Miss Esther, 74. 
 George Warren, 48, 81, 97. 
 Miss Grace, 74. 
 Henry L., 74. 
 Herbert, 74. 
 John, 13. 
 
 Miss Mary A., 31. 
 Stephen, 15. 
 
 Theodore Parker, 30, 74. 
 Town clerks, 9. 
 moderator, 9. 
 
 meeting, form of, derived from Hol- 
 land and Germany, 44. 
 Mrs. Mabel T., 74. 
 Towns, hill, west of the Connecticut 
 river, settled, 77. 
 
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Trades: — 
 
 cooper, 23. 
 wine, 23. 
 
 shoe-making, 112. 
 
 iron molding, 112. 
 Translations from the French, 110. 
 Treasurer's reports, 21, 34, 53. 
 Treasurer-Secretary, office of see Sec- 
 retary. 
 Troops, State' (Mass.), Militia, 112. 
 
 Fourth Regiment, Company E., 112. 
 Tucker, Robert, 61. 
 
 Sarah, daughter of, 61. 
 Turner (Me.), 73. 
 
 Ulrich, Mrs. Flora B., 30, 53. 
 Miss Olive E., 74. 
 W. Leroy, 30, 74. 
 United States of America, 41, 44, 45. 
 President of the, 41. 
 duty of the immigrant to these, 44, 
 
 45. 
 Coast Survey, 35, 57. 
 Volunteers, 112. 
 
 Call of Abraham Lincoln, April 16, 
 1861, for troops, 112. 
 {See also Wars, Civil.) 
 Universal Exposition (1915), Panama- 
 Pacific, at San Francisco 
 (Cal.), 114. 
 Society of Descendants of Robert 
 Bartlet of Plymouth invited 
 to attend, 114. 
 Utah, 30, 67, 68, 69, 70, 93. 
 
 V. 
 
 Vermont, 30, 67, 70. 
 Verses by Miss Mary A. Hopkins, 98. 
 book of, by Ermina B. Suhanek, 98. 
 the Historian, 110. 
 Virginia, 38, 61, 62, 75. 
 Visitations of Devonshire County, 
 England, 59, 63. 
 {See also Harlerian Society Chart.) 
 {See also England.) 
 
 W. 
 
 Wadsworth, Elizabeth (Bartlet), wife 
 of General Peleg, 40, 111. 
 Deacon Peleg, 111. 
 
 Susannah (Samson), wife of, 111. 
 General Peleg (Penobscot Expedi- 
 tion), 111). 
 
 captured by British, 40. 
 imprisoned at Fort George, Cas- 
 tine (Me.), 40. 
 escaped from, 40. 
 Walker, name of, 60. 
 Walpole (Mass.), 74. 
 Waltham (Mass.), 71, 73, 97. 
 War of the Rebellion see Civil War, 
 (1861-1865), 
 Revolution (1775-1783), 39. 
 {See also Wars.) 
 Ware (Mass.), 70. 
 Warner (N. H.), 13, 87. 
 Warren estate, 61. 
 name of, 40. 
 homestead, 61. 
 children of Peter and Sarah. 
 
 John, Joseph, Benjamin, Eliza- 
 beth, Robert, Ebenezer and 
 Peter, 61. 
 Peter, 60, 61. 
 
 children of Peter and Hannah 
 (2d wife) : 
 Hannah, Mary, Robert, 61. 
 Joseph (4) and Mary (Stevens) : 
 Joseph, Samuel, Ebenezer and 
 John, 61. 
 Ann, 62, 63. 
 Sarah, 62, 63. 
 Elizabeth, 59, 61, 62. 
 Abigail, 62. 
 Joseph, 62. 
 
 children of Rev. Robert Warren 
 and Mary (Burgis): Christo- 
 pher, Robert, Thomas, Peter, 
 Nathaniel, Margaret, Anne, 
 63. 
 John, of Hedbury (England), 63. 
 
 Christopher, son of, 63. 
 William, 63. 
 Ann (Mable), 63. 
 Robert, 63. 
 Margaret f Burgis), wife of Rev. 
 
 Robert, 63. 
 Nathaniel, 59, 60, 61, 62. 
 Robert, 61. 
 Sarah, 61, 62, 63. 
 Thomas, 63. 
 Alice (Webb), 59. 
 Benjamin, 61. 
 Charles H., 33, 36, 52, 75. 
 Christopher, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63. 
 General James, 60. 
 John, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63. 
 Ebenezer, 61. 
 Hannah, 61. 
 General Joseph, 60. 
 John C, 61, 62. 
 ancestry of, 60. 
 
Warren, Mary, 7, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17, 22, 
 23, 32, 38, 43, 47, 57, 59, 60, 
 61, 62, 63, 66, 83, 102, 106, 
 108, 111. 
 of French ancestry, 43. 
 lines of descent from, 100-111. 
 (See also Bartlet.) 
 
 Richard (1), 9, 15, 23, 33, 57, 58, 
 59, 60, 61, 62, 63. 
 wife of, 22, 23, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63. 
 son Richard, 63. 
 in regard to his family, 59. 
 one, said to have been sheriff of 
 Coventry (England) in 1610, 
 59, 60. 
 (See also Coventry, England.) 
 grandson of, also Richard, 61. 
 children of, and Elizabeth (Jouat), 
 widow of Marsh: 
 
 Richard, John, Mary, Ann, Sarah, 
 Elizabeth, and Abigail (born 
 in England), Nathaniel and 
 Joseph (born in Plymouth, 
 Mass.), 62. 
 of Greenwich (Kent), 63. 
 " Warrens," The, address by the Pres- 
 ident, Lucius Warren Bart- 
 lett, 58-62. 
 (See also Addresses.) 
 Warrens, the, statements of genealo- 
 gists regarding, 61. 
 the Virginia, 61. 
 and the Wneelers, 62. 
 Wars : — 
 Boer, 24. 
 
 Civil, 9, 12, 18, 14, 112. 
 Revolutionary, 3, 18, 39, 87. 
 Washington (D. C), 68, 73, 109, 110. 
 
 (State), 67, 68, 69, 70. 
 Waterman, Mrs. Amanda B., 75, 95. 
 
 Fear, 101. 
 Watertown (Mass.), 13, 24, 61. 
 
 John Warren of, 62. 
 Waterville (Vt.), 30. 
 Waureka (Wis.), 75. 
 Weatherbee, Miss Blanche G., 75. 
 
 Clara G., 75. 
 W r ebb, Alice, 63. 
 
 Thomas, 63. 
 Wellman, Charles, 74. 
 Edward C, 74. 
 Miss Fanny, 74. 
 Louise, 74. 
 Mrs. Mary E., 74. 
 Wellston (Ohio), 73. 
 West Cummington (Mass.), 68, 70, 72. 
 Westfield (Mass.), 67. 
 
 West Haven (Conn.), 67. 
 
 Newton (Mass.), 97. 
 
 Springfield (Mass.), 68, 69, 71, 73. 
 
 Worthington (Mass.), 73. 
 Weyman, Wesley, 75. 
 Weymouth (Mass.), 12, 31, 69, 78, 89, 
 96, 97. 
 
 exodus from, and other towns, 77. 
 
 John Bartlet of, 87. 
 Wheaton, Earl, 75. 
 
 Wheeler, Henry Warren, 61. 
 
 book by, 61. 
 
 (See also Genealogies.) 
 White, Miss Eliza B., 75. 
 
 Mrs. Emma B., 75. 
 
 Miss Flora, 75. 
 
 J. Bartlett, 75. 
 
 Miss Mabel M., 75. 
 White Horse beach, 32, 55. 
 
 Crescent Hotel at, 55. 
 (See also Plymouth.) 
 " White House," the (Washington, 
 
 D. C), 109. 
 White settlement, the first, previous to 
 
 1639, 9. 
 White, Joseph, 31. 
 
 Whitman (Mass.), 30, 31, 70, 71, 89. 
 Whittemore, Frances T., 106. 
 Whitty, Mrs. Mabel H., 75. 
 William the Conqueror, 8, 13, 40, 54, 
 
 57. 
 Williamsburg (Mass.), 72. 
 Williamson, Mrs. Flora B., 75, 97. 
 Wilmington (Vt.), 67. 
 Wilson, J. Bartlett, 75. 
 
 Mrs. Kate B., 75. 
 Windsor (Conn.), 30, 67, 70, 74, 80, 90, 
 96, 97, 100. 
 
 (Mass.), 72. 
 Winslow, name of, 60. 
 Winsted (Conn.), 68, 70, 71. 
 Winthrop, Governor John, 60. 
 
 John Warren who came from Eng- 
 land with, 61. 
 Wisconsin, 70, 75, 93. 
 " Woman's Who's Who in America," 
 
 110. 
 Wood, Chas. A. Wood, 114. 
 
 Fred L., 75. 
 
 Mrs. Harriet B., 75. 
 Helen K., 75. 
 
 Miss Winifred B., 75. 
 Woodland (England), 63. 
 

 Worcester (Mass.), 12, 71. Worthington (Ohio), 68. 
 
 q^,w n f &„♦:«„;*„ 19 (Mass.), 31, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 
 
 Society ot Antiquity, 12. 'J. qs 101 
 
 (See a/so Societies.) Wyoming, 67. 
 
 Worship God, to, in their own way Y. 
 
 not the only reason for which x ^ ,,,- ^, , A1 r 7C 
 
 „., . 3 , \ oumans. Mrs. Theodora W., 75. 
 
 the Pilgrims came to the new _ r _ A1 , __ 
 
 world, 39, 40. Y °™S> ? r Alexander, 39. 
 ' ' Mrs. Carrie B., 75. 
 
 (See also Pilgrims.) Miss Grace M., 75. 
 
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