He was in the Revolutionary War between 1777 and 1781. Daniel was Surgeon’s Mate with the 4
th Massachusetts, 1 January 1777. Transferred to the 11
th Massachusetts, 1 June 1778. Surgeon, 12 September 1780. Retired 1 January 1781.
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2,7 His wife,
Martha, died in 1796 at age ~41, leaving him a widower.
The Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Profiles (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, 2004.):
DANIEL BARTLETT He was born at Brookfield, Mass. 21 December 1755
[i] ; died at Westminster, Mass. 25 December 1819, age 64 yrs.
[ii] Daniel was the son of Nathaniel and Dorothy (Harwood)
Bartlett of Brookfield. He was married (1) at Leominster, Mass. 17 April 1783 to Martha Butler.
[iii] She was born at Leominster 26 October 1755; she died in 1796.
[iv] Martha was the daughter of Simon and Anna (Fairbank) Butler. He filed his (2) marriage intention at Westminster 12 January 1797
[v] , and also recorded 14 January 1797 at Princeton, Mass. to Mrs. Abigail Harrington.
[vi] Abigail died 20 March 1830, and “was insane in her last yrs”.
[vii]
Daniel was Surgeon’s Mate with the 4
th Massachusetts, 1 January 1777. Transferred to the 11
th Massachusetts, 1 June 1778. Surgeon, 12 September 1780. Retired 1 January 1781.
[viii]
The following sketch for his service in the Revolutionary War appears in
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1:713).
Daniel Bartlet, Surgeon’s Mate, Col. Thomas Marshall’s and Col. William Shepard’s Regts.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; also, Col. William Shepard’s Regt.; order for clothing dated Camp at Valley Forge, May 1, 1778; also, Col. Shepard’s (3d) Regt.; return of men in service on or before Aug. 15, 1777, dated March 12, 1779; reported resigned; also, Col. Marshall’s (10th) Regt.; return for clothing delivered Feb. 1, 1779; also, Col. Marshall’s Regt.; muster roll for Jan., 1779, dated West Point; reported furloughed Dec. 28, 1778, for 42 days; also, return of officers dated Boston, Jan. 20, 1779; also, pay abstract for service to April 3, 1779, dated Boston; also, muster roll for March, 1779, dated West Point; appointed June 1, 1778; reported furloughed by Gen. Paterson; also, return of officers dated West Point, Aug. 21, 1779; also, Surgeon, Col. Marshall’s Regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1780, to Dec. 31, 1780; reported as serving 8 mos. 12 days as Surgeon’s Mate, 3 mos. 18 days as Surgeon; also, muster roll for Oct. - Dec., 1780, dated Huts near West Point; reported furloughed at New Windsor; also reported appointed Surgeon Sept. 12, 1780.
He is listed among the officers in Metcalf’s
Original Members and other Officers eligible to the Society of the Cincinnati 1783-1938.
[ix] He is also mentioned as an “Eligible Non-Member” of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati in the
New England Historical and Genealogical Society Register (January 1946) 100:61.
Daniel arrived in Westminster, Massachusetts ca. 1780, as he was taxed there the following year. He was warned out of town in 1791. Daniel “was a man of great physical stature and commanding proportions”.
[x] Daniel’s name appears as an owner of pew number 13 in the gallery of the Second Meeting House in Westminster.
[xi] In 1792 Dr.
Bartlett made his first of many attempts in Westminster to have a hospital built to inoculate those against smallpox.
[xii] In 1803 Dr.
Bartlett started a drug and medicine trade “in connection with the sale of liquors and other articles pertaining to his profession, at his residence near what was then the west end of the village. This was the beginning of what , after various modifications and changes, became the miscellaneous traffic conducted by Oliver Estey for many years, and finally by Estey and Giles”.
[xiii] He was granted a Bounty Land Warrant 31 December 1790.
[xiv]
Daniel was the first Postmaster in Westminster and served from 1804 until his death.
[xv] His obituary appeared in The Columbian Centinel, 8 January 1820. His Will was filed in the Worcester County Courthouse.
[xvi] He was buried in the Old Cemetery in Westminster, where his gravestone inscription reads: “In memory of Doct. Daniel
Bartlett who died Dec. 25, 1819, Æt. 64. Our hearts are fastened to this world, by strong and endless ties; But ev’ry sorrow cuts a string; and urges us to rise”.
[xvii]
He adopted three children of his brother Eli
Bartlett of Leominster who had ten.
[xviii]
i. Dorothy “Dolly”, b. at Leominster 30 May 1782
[xix] ; d. unmarr. at Westminster 18 November 1819, age 37 yrs.
[xx] Her gravestone is at the Old Cemetery in Westminster.
[xxi] ii. Lucy, b. at Leominster 14 January 1791
[xxii] ; died unmarr. at Westminster in 1807.
iii. Achsah, b. at Leominster 25 February 1793.
[xxiii] She marr. at Westminster 15 October 1821 to Oliver Estey.
[xxiv] [i] Vital Records of Brookfield, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Mass., Franklin P. Rice, 1909), p. 35.
[ii] Vital Records of Westminster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Mass., Franklin P. Rice, 1908), p. 212.
[iii] Vital Records of Leominster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Mass., Franklin P. Rice, 1911), p. 169.
[iv] William Sweetzer Heywood,
History of Westminster, Massachusetts 1728-1893. (Lowell, Mass., 1893), p. 537.
[v] < /a> Vital Records of Westminster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Mass., Franklin P. Rice, 1908), p. 212.
[vi] Vital Records of Princeton, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Mass., Franklin P. Rice, 1902), p. 78.
[vii] William Sweetzer Heywood,
History of Westminster, Massachusetts 1728-1893. (Lowell, Mass., 1893), p. 538.
[viii] Francis B. Heitman,
Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution April, 1775, to December, 1783. (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 1982), p. 90.
[ix] Bryce Metcalf,
Original Members and other Officers eligible to the Society of the Cincinnati 1783-1938 (Strasburg, Va., Shenandoah Public House, 1938), p. 45.
[x] William Sweetzer Heywood,
History of Westminster, Massachusetts 1728-1893. (Lowell, Mass., 1893), p. 538.
[xi] ibid., p. 278.
[xii] ibid., p. 468.
[xiii] ibid., p. 322.
[xiv] Virgil D. White,
Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, (Waynesboro, TN., National Historical Publishing Co., 1992) 1:174 (BLW # 108-400).
[xv] William Sweetzer Heywood,
History of Westminster, Massachusetts 1728-1893. (Lowell, Mass., 1893), p. 445.
[xvi] Worcester Co. Probate – Docket # 3949.
[xvii] Cemetery Inscriptions of Westminster, Massachusetts. (Westminster, Mass., Central Massachusetts Genealogical Society, 2000), p. 70.
[xviii] William Sweetzer Heywood,
History of Westminster, Massachusetts 1728-1893. (Lowell, Mass., 1893), p. 538.
[xix] Vital Records of Leominster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Mass., Franklin P. Rice, 1911), p. 35.
[xx] Vital Records of Westminster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Mass., Franklin P. Rice, 1908), p. 212.
[xxi] Cemetery Inscriptions of Westminster, Massachusetts. (Westminster, Mass., Central Massachusetts Genealogical Society, 2000), p. 70.
[xxii] Vital Records of Leominster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Mass., Franklin P. Rice, 1911), p. 36.
[xxiii] ibid., p. 35.
[xxiv] Vital Records of Westminster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Mass., Franklin P. Rice, 1908), p. 115.
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