Robert Bartlett

Abt 1612 - 1676  (~ 64 years)

• Name	Robert Bartlett  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1612  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Mar 1676	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I14760	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family	Anne   d. 3 Jul 1676, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Abt 1637  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Abigail Bartlett,   b. Abt 1637   d. Aft 10 Oct 1710, South Hadley Falls, Hampshire, Massachuetts (Age ~ 73 years) + 2. Samuel Bartlett,   b. 1639, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. 26 Feb 1712, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F9184	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Nov 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived 16 Sep 1632 on the Lyon. First at Cambridge, then Hartford 1639, Northampton 1656. Slain in battle with native Americans. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. From Timothy Lester Jacobs at the Founders of Hartford site: While still in Massachusetts, on 5 Jun 1638 he was arrested for cursing and swearing and received the punishment of having his tongue put in a cleft stick. In Hartford, on 30 Jun 1646 he was arrested for slandering a woman. As punishment he was put in a pillory, whipped, fined 6 shillings, and served 6 months in jail; on 21 Aug 1646 he was charged with giving ill counsel to the prisoners, and was punished by being whipped. On 15 November 1653 he was on a committee to “receive in such inhabitants as they shall judge that for the carrying on the design” of settling Northampton. In 1656 he moved to Northampton. By the end of his life he was a prosperous and respected resident of Northampton. He was selectman of Northampton 27 April 1658. He was killed by Indians during the Northampton raid in King Philip’s War.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2049] The Stebbins Genealogy by Ralph Stebbins Greenlee and Robert Lemuel Greenlee. Chicago, 1904. [S2050] John Insley Coddington, "The Stebbing Family of Co. Essex, England, and Rowland, Martin, Edward and Editha Stebbing or Stebbins of New England." The American Genealogist 31:193, October 1955. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.