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<div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American Founding Father, physician, and judge</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For his son, see <a href="/wiki/Josiah_Bartlett_Jr." title="Josiah Bartlett Jr.">Josiah Bartlett Jr.</a> For the West Wing character, see <a href="/wiki/Jed_Bartlet" title="Jed Bartlet">Jed Bartlet</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">1st <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_Hampshire" title="Governor of New Hampshire">Governor of New Hampshire</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />June 5, 1790 – June 5, 1794</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/President_of_New_Hampshire" class="mw-redirect" title="President of New Hampshire">President of New Hampshire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Taylor_Gilman" title="John Taylor Gilman">John Taylor Gilman</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Chief Justice of the <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_Supreme_Court" title="New Hampshire Supreme Court">New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1788–1790</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Delegate to the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a><br />from <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1778–1778</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1775–1776</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1729-11-21</span>)</span>November 21, 1729<br /><a href="/wiki/Amesbury,_Massachusetts" title="Amesbury, Massachusetts">Amesbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay" title="Province of Massachusetts Bay">Province of Massachusetts Bay</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_America" title="British America">British America</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">May 19, 1795<span style="display:none">(1795-05-19)</span> (aged 65)<br /><a href="/wiki/Kingston,_New_Hampshire" title="Kingston, New Hampshire">Kingston, New Hampshire</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic-Republican_Party_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic-Republican Party (United States)">Democratic-Republican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mary_Bartlett" title="Mary Bartlett">Mary Bartlett</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">10, including <a href="/wiki/Josiah_Bartlett_Jr." title="Josiah Bartlett Jr.">Josiah Bartlett Jr.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Luella_J._B._Case" title="Luella J. B. Case">Luella J. B. Case</a> (granddaughter)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Josiah_Bartlett_Signature.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Josiah Bartlett's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Josiah_Bartlett_Signature.svg/128px-Josiah_Bartlett_Signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="36" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Josiah_Bartlett_Signature.svg/192px-Josiah_Bartlett_Signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Josiah_Bartlett_Signature.svg/256px-Josiah_Bartlett_Signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="306" data-file-height="87" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Josiah Bartlett</b> (December 2, 1729 [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> November 21, 1729]<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – May 19, 1795) was an American <a href="/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States" title="Founding Fathers of the United States">Founding Father</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Bernstein2001_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bernstein2001-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> physician, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/statesman" class="extiw" title="wikt:statesman">statesman</a>, a delegate to the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a> for <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a>, and a signatory to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a> and <a href="/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a>. He was a member of the convention which framed the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">Constitution of the United States</a> in 1787. He served as the first <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_Hampshire" title="Governor of New Hampshire">governor of New Hampshire</a> and chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature, now the <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_Supreme_Court" title="New Hampshire Supreme Court">New Hampshire Supreme Court</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AMB_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CongBio_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CongBio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bartlett practiced medicine over 40 years. During that time, he promoted wellness practices, including diet, exercise, fresh air, and a contented mind. He fostered using messages from one's body to improve one's health, like drinking when thirsty and covering up when sick with chills. He managed an outbreak of throat distemper, or <a href="/wiki/Diphtheria" title="Diphtheria">diphtheria</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Jesuit%27s_bark" title="Jesuit's bark">Peruvian bark</a>, also known as <a href="/wiki/Quinine" title="Quinine">quinine</a>, with much greater success than traditional treatments. When his was very sick himself, he took cold cider, versus a warm drink, at intervals to break a fever. </p><p>As governor, Bartlett worked to ensure the state's success by supporting farming and businesses, improving the state's infrastructure, codifying and enacting laws, adding special judges, and paying off the state's debt. He ran a farm and orchards over his life. His wife <a href="/wiki/Mary_Bartlett" title="Mary Bartlett">Mary Bartlett</a> took on that responsibility when Bartlett was away at the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a> in Pennsylvania. Bartlett and his wife wrote letters to one another that provide insight into the life of a founding father, the trials they experienced and conquered as they fought for a country independent from British rule, and their strength in creating a stable life for themselves and their twelve children, eight of whom survived. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Josiah_Bartlett&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Josiah Bartlett, born on November 21, 1729, in <a href="/wiki/Amesbury,_Massachusetts" title="Amesbury, Massachusetts">Amesbury</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay" title="Province of Massachusetts Bay">Province of Massachusetts Bay</a>, was the seventh and last child of Hannah (<a href="/wiki/N%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Née">née</a> Webster) and Stephen Bartlett, a shoemaker.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n21–n22,_n36_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n21–n22,_n36-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bartlett had some education from the town schoolmaster<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and possibly circuit schools.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He learned Latin and Greek, most likely from a relative, Reverend Doctor John Webster.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1745, Bartlett studied medicine in his hometown under Dr. Nehemiah Ordway, a relative.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22,_n36_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22,_n36-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also studied from Ordway's and other physician's medical books.<sup id="cite_ref-AMB_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841131_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841131-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After a five-year apprenticeship,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841131_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841131-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he moved to <a href="/wiki/Kingston,_New_Hampshire" title="Kingston, New Hampshire">Kingston, New Hampshire</a> in 1750,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22,_n36_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22,_n36-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841131_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841131-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he lived with Reverend Joseph Secombe.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One year later, he purchased twelve acres for a farm.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22,_n36_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22,_n36-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On January 15, 1754, he married <a href="/wiki/Mary_Bartlett" title="Mary Bartlett">Mary Bartlett</a> of <a href="/wiki/Newton,_New_Hampshire" title="Newton, New Hampshire">Newton, New Hampshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22,_n36_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22,_n36-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841131_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841131-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was his cousin, the daughter of his uncle, Deacon Joseph Bartlett and Sarah (née Hoyt) Bartlett.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Bartletts had twelve children, eight who lived to adulthood.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were: Mary (1754), Lois (1756), Miriam (1758), Rhoda (1760), Levi (1763), Josiah (1768), Ezra (1770), and Sarah (1773).<sup id="cite_ref-PA_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PA-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All three of his sons and seven of his grandsons would follow his dream as physicians. <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bartlett was a <a href="/wiki/Freemason" class="mw-redirect" title="Freemason">freemason</a> and encouraged his son Josiah to join.<sup id="cite_ref-Denslow_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Denslow-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bartlett and Mary remained married until her death on July 14, 1789.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979319_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979319-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGreenGreen191210_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGreenGreen191210-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Mary_Bartlett#Marriage_and_children" title="Mary Bartlett">Mary Bartlett § Marriage and children</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Josiah_Bartlett&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Medicine">Medicine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Josiah_Bartlett&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Medicine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Josiah_Bartlett.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Coat_of_Arms_of_Josiah_Bartlett.svg/175px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Josiah_Bartlett.svg.png" decoding="async" width="175" height="202" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Coat_of_Arms_of_Josiah_Bartlett.svg/263px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Josiah_Bartlett.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Coat_of_Arms_of_Josiah_Bartlett.svg/350px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Josiah_Bartlett.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="395" data-file-height="457" /></a><figcaption>Coat of Arms of Josiah Bartlett</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1750, he moved to <a href="/wiki/Kingston,_New_Hampshire" title="Kingston, New Hampshire">Kingston, New Hampshire</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Rockingham_County,_New_Hampshire" title="Rockingham County, New Hampshire">Rockingham County</a>, and opened his medical practice.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841131_12-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841131-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kingston at that time was a frontier settlement.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bartlett actively practiced medicine for 40 years.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During that time, he tested both traditional and new treatments for optimal <a href="/wiki/Efficacy" title="Efficacy">efficacy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AMB_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/Virulence" title="Virulence">virulent</a> form a throat distemper or <a href="/wiki/Diphtheria" title="Diphtheria">diphtheria</a>, with a fever and <a href="/wiki/Canker" title="Canker">canker</a>, spread throughout Kingston in 1754. Bartlett experimented with therapy using several available drugs and empirically discovered that <a href="/wiki/Jesuit%27s_bark" title="Jesuit's bark">Peruvian bark</a>, also known as <a href="/wiki/Quinine" title="Quinine">quinine</a>, relieved symptoms long enough to allow recovery.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AMB_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also realized the benefits of curing fevers with cool liquids,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n1,_n22_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n1,_n22-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> like apple cider, taken at intervals. He tried this when he was quite ill, against his physician's orders, with success.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841131–132_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841131–132-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Beginning June 25, 1765, Bartlett and Dr. Amos Gale were partners in a medical practice in Kingston for a period of three years.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n36_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n36-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bartlett believed in fostering wellness, including exercise, diet, fresh air, and following cues of one's body, like drinking when thirsty and covering up when sick with the chills. He also believed "to keep the mind as Easy and Contented as possible" were "of much more Service than a multiplicity of Medicines".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMaier1982136_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMaier1982136-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1790, Bartlett secured legislation recognizing the New Hampshire Medical Society. He was elected chief executive of New Hampshire, serving as president in 1791 and 1792.<sup id="cite_ref-AMB_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1790, he delivered the commencement address at <a href="/wiki/Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College">Dartmouth College</a> when his son Ezra graduated. Bartlett was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Medicine the same day his son was awarded the same degree.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Farming_and_real_estate">Farming and real estate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Josiah_Bartlett&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Farming and real estate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While in Kingston, Bartlett grew crops on his twelve-acre farm beginning in 1751. As a young adult, he also made money dealing in lumber and buying and selling real estate.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After he was married, the Bartletts planted and harvested crops, like corn and beans, with the help of servants.<sup id="cite_ref-Snodgrass_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Snodgrass-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERoberts2005103_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERoberts2005103-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had an orchard with peach, apple, plum, and cherry trees.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Politics">Politics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Josiah_Bartlett&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bartlett became active in the political affairs of Kingston, and in 1765, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Colonial_government_in_the_Thirteen_Colonies#Assembly" title="Colonial government in the Thirteen Colonies">Provincial Assembly</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841133_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841133-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bartlett conducted discussions with Colonial Governor <a href="/wiki/Benning_Wentworth" title="Benning Wentworth">Benning Wentworth</a> (1741–1766) and the <a href="/wiki/Executive_Council_of_New_Hampshire#Colonial_era" title="Executive Council of New Hampshire">Provincial Assembly</a> to mediate dissension caused by the <a href="/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765" title="Stamp Act 1765">Stamp Act of 1765</a> (enacted by the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Great_Britain" title="Parliament of Great Britain">Parliament of Great Britain</a>). He opposed the <a href="/wiki/Townshend_Acts" title="Townshend Acts">Townshend Acts</a> of 1767 and 1768 and aligned politically with the <a href="/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)" title="Patriot (American Revolution)">patriots</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Radical_Whigs" title="Radical Whigs">Whigs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcGee195526_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcGee195526-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bartlett was member of the colonial legislature until 1775.<sup id="cite_ref-CongBio_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CongBio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While a legislator, Bartlett was at odds with both Governor Wentworths, Benning and <a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Wentworth,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet">John</a>, who endorsed the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Kingdom of Great Britain</a>'s agenda over the needs of the people of New Hampshire. In an unsuccessful attempt to influence Bartlett, Governor Benning Wentworth appointed him as justice of the peace in 1765.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n36_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n36-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841133_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841133-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two years later, Colonial Governor <a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Wentworth,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet">John Wentworth</a> (1767–1775) did the same. Bartlett organized the 7th Regiment of the <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_Militia#Colonia_era" title="New Hampshire Militia">New Hampshire Milition</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726_7-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 1770, he was a colonel of the militia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcGee195526_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcGee195526-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wanting independence from the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Kingdom of Great Britain</a>, Bartlett participated in revolutionary causes beginning in 1774. He joined the Provincial Assembly's <a href="/wiki/Committees_of_correspondence" title="Committees of correspondence">Committee of Correspondence</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Committee_of_safety_(American_Revolution)" title="Committee of safety (American Revolution)">Committee of Safety</a> in May.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726_7-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841133–134_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841133–134-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In response, the governor immediately dissolved the Provincial Assembly, which resulted in the termination of the royal government in New Hampshire. A temporary government was organized with the Provincial Congress,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841134_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841134-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when that assembly was not in session, the Committee of Safety took the lead.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcGee195526_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcGee195526-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bartlett retained his seat in the Assembly. The Committee of Correspondence reassembled the representatives and selected delegates to the upcoming Continental Congress.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841134_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841134-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:KingstonNH_JosiahBartlettHouse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/KingstonNH_JosiahBartlettHouse.jpg/220px-KingstonNH_JosiahBartlettHouse.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/KingstonNH_JosiahBartlettHouse.jpg/330px-KingstonNH_JosiahBartlettHouse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/KingstonNH_JosiahBartlettHouse.jpg/440px-KingstonNH_JosiahBartlettHouse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="681" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Josiah_Bartlett_House" title="Josiah Bartlett House">Josiah Bartlett House</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kingston,_New_Hampshire" title="Kingston, New Hampshire">Kingston, New Hampshire</a>, a <a href="/wiki/National_Historic_Landmark" title="National Historic Landmark">National Historic Landmark</a> listing, built in 1774</figcaption></figure> <p>Also in May, his house was burned down, likely by <a href="/wiki/Tory" title="Tory">Tories</a>. Bartlett was chosen to represent New Hampshire at the <a href="/wiki/First_Continental_Congress" title="First Continental Congress">First Continental Congress</a> (September 5 to October 26, 1774), but declined because his house was razed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726_7-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He moved his family out to the farmhouse and began rebuilding immediately. The <a href="/wiki/Josiah_Bartlett_House" title="Josiah Bartlett House">Josiah Bartlett House</a> was declared a <a href="/wiki/National_Historic_Landmark" title="National Historic Landmark">National Historic Landmark</a> in 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-nhlsum_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhlsum-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nrhpinv2_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nrhpinv2-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was named an "accessory after the fact" for the <a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Fort_William_and_Mary" title="Capture of Fort William and Mary">Capture of Fort William and Mary</a> (December 14, 1774) in <a href="/wiki/New_Castle,_New_Hampshire" title="New Castle, New Hampshire">New Castle, New Hampshire</a>. Governor Wentworth dismissed him from his positions as a justice of the peace and militia colonel in February 1775.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726_7-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841133_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841133-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Founding_father_and_military_leader">Founding father and military leader</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Josiah_Bartlett&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Founding father and military leader"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bartlett was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a> in 1775, 1776 and 1778.<sup id="cite_ref-CongBio_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CongBio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was selected as a delegate in 1775, and attended the Second Session of the Continental Congress where he sat on the civil government, secrecy, safety, marine, and munitions Committees.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the question of declaring <a href="/wiki/Sovereignty" title="Sovereignty">independence</a> from <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Great Britain</a> was officially brought up in 1776, as a representative of the northernmost colony Bartlett was the first to be asked, and he answered in the affirmative.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726_7-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841135_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGoodrich1841135-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Price_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Price-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the second signer of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a> (July 4, 1776).<sup id="cite_ref-CongBio_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CongBio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He signed the engrossed copy on August 2, 1776.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726_7-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After asking for relief, a couple of men from New Hampshire joined the delegation and that allowed Bartlett to return to New Hampshire<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERoberts2005105_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERoberts2005105-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 1777. Bartlett organized regiments to respond to an anticipated threat from <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>. He led the troops with supplies to <a href="/wiki/Bennington,_New_Hampshire" title="Bennington, New Hampshire">Bennington, New Hampshire</a> to join up with Gen. <a href="/wiki/John_Stark" title="John Stark">John Stark</a>'s forces. He brought medical supplies that were needed for the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bennington" title="Battle of Bennington">Battle of Bennington</a> (August 16, 1777).<sup id="cite_ref-CongBio_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CongBio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726_7-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1779, Bartlett was made a colonel in the militia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726_7-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bartlett was reelected to the Continental Congress on March 14, 1778, and returned to Pennsylvania by May 21, 1778.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726–27_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726–27-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served on the committee that drafted<sup id="cite_ref-Price_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Price-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation" title="Articles of Confederation">Articles of Confederation</a> and he signed the instrument.<sup id="cite_ref-CongBio_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CongBio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bartlett withdrew his seat on October 31, 1778, to return to New Hampshire to attend to personal business.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While he was away from home, his wife Mary, pregnant part of that time, had managed the planting and harvesting of crops, cared for their large family, and oversaw the servants' work.<sup id="cite_ref-Snodgrass_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Snodgrass-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERoberts200596_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERoberts200596-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHarris1996275_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHarris1996275-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bartlett and Mary wrote letters to one another that provide insight into their lives during the revolution. Pauline Maier in <i>The old revolutionaries : political lives in the age of Samuel Adams</i> states: "In the midst of change, some revolutionaries cultivated continuity. For Josiah and Mary Bartlett, the permanent alterations the Revolution brought to them and their provincial world were grafted upon a larger field of stability. Josiah might help design a national government that would determine the happiness of all future generations, but the seasons would come as always, the drought and worms at most a little earlier, a little later; and even the failure of the Revolution would have been, it seemed, but another of the troubles that marked men's existence and for which Providence would again somehow provide."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMaier1982n17,_139–163_(some_of_their_letters),_272_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMaier1982n17,_139–163_(some_of_their_letters),_272-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Mary_Bartlett#Life_partner" title="Mary Bartlett">Mary Bartlett § Life partner</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_career">Later career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Josiah_Bartlett&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Later career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Josiah_Bartlett_(NYPL_b12349193-419985)_(cropped).tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Josiah_Bartlett_%28NYPL_b12349193-419985%29_%28cropped%29.tif/lossless-page1-220px-Josiah_Bartlett_%28NYPL_b12349193-419985%29_%28cropped%29.tif.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="278" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Josiah_Bartlett_%28NYPL_b12349193-419985%29_%28cropped%29.tif/lossless-page1-330px-Josiah_Bartlett_%28NYPL_b12349193-419985%29_%28cropped%29.tif.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Josiah_Bartlett_%28NYPL_b12349193-419985%29_%28cropped%29.tif/lossless-page1-440px-Josiah_Bartlett_%28NYPL_b12349193-419985%29_%28cropped%29.tif.png 2x" data-file-width="1183" data-file-height="1494" /></a><figcaption>Painted by <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Tryon_Billings" title="Edwin Tryon Billings">Edwin Tryon Billings</a>, mezzotint, after a portrait by <a href="/wiki/John_Trumbull" title="John Trumbull">John Trumbull</a>. The original by Trumbull hangs in the State House in <a href="/wiki/Concord,_New_Hampshire" title="Concord, New Hampshire">Concord, New Hampshire</a></figcaption></figure> <p>He became chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1778.<sup id="cite_ref-CongBio_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CongBio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1779, he returned to his role as a judge, serving in the Court of Common Pleas until 1782<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727_13-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AMB_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when he became associate justice for the <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_Supreme_Court" title="New Hampshire Supreme Court">New Hampshire Supreme Court</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727_13-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bartlett was a delegate from New Hampshire at the convention that framed the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">Constitution of the United States</a> in 1787.<sup id="cite_ref-CongBio_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CongBio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AMB_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He argued for ratification, which took place on June 21, 1788. New Hampshire was the ninth state to ratify the Constitution.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727_13-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1788, Bartlett was made the chief justice of the state supreme court.<sup id="cite_ref-CongBio_4-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CongBio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AMB_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The legislature of the new state of New Hampshire selected him to be a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U. S. Senator</a> in 1789, but he declined the office.<sup id="cite_ref-CongBio_4-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CongBio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AMB_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He resigned as chief justice in 1789.<sup id="cite_ref-CongBio_4-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CongBio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bartlett was governor of New Hampshire from 1790, initially called chief executive<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727_13-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or president. When the new <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_New_Hampshire" title="Constitution of New Hampshire">state constitution</a> of 1792 took effect in 1793, his title became governor. He resigned on January 29, 1794, because of declining health.<sup id="cite_ref-CongBio_4-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CongBio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AMB_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his tenure, Bartlett developed the foundation for New Hampshire to operate successfully as a state by evaluating existing laws and making new ones, regulating the use of gold and silver coins, establishing special judges, and working with the legislature. He made provisions for payment of the state's debt.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979391–392_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979391–392-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also improved New Hampshire's infrastructure, maintaining and building roads, bridges, and canals. For the state's economy, he supported agriculture and businesses.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979385_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979385-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_legacy">Death and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Josiah_Bartlett&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Death and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Josiah_Bartlett%27s_Statue,_Amesbury,_MA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Josiah_Bartlett%27s_Statue%2C_Amesbury%2C_MA.jpg/220px-Josiah_Bartlett%27s_Statue%2C_Amesbury%2C_MA.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Josiah_Bartlett%27s_Statue%2C_Amesbury%2C_MA.jpg/330px-Josiah_Bartlett%27s_Statue%2C_Amesbury%2C_MA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Josiah_Bartlett%27s_Statue%2C_Amesbury%2C_MA.jpg/440px-Josiah_Bartlett%27s_Statue%2C_Amesbury%2C_MA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="546" data-file-height="348" /></a><figcaption>Statue of Josiah Bartlett, near the corner of Main and Heritage Vale Streets, Amesbury, Massachusetts.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Josiah_Bartlett_Museum_(exterior)_-_Amesbury,_Massachusetts.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Josiah_Bartlett_Museum_%28exterior%29_-_Amesbury%2C_Massachusetts.JPG/220px-Josiah_Bartlett_Museum_%28exterior%29_-_Amesbury%2C_Massachusetts.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Josiah_Bartlett_Museum_%28exterior%29_-_Amesbury%2C_Massachusetts.JPG/330px-Josiah_Bartlett_Museum_%28exterior%29_-_Amesbury%2C_Massachusetts.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Josiah_Bartlett_Museum_%28exterior%29_-_Amesbury%2C_Massachusetts.JPG/440px-Josiah_Bartlett_Museum_%28exterior%29_-_Amesbury%2C_Massachusetts.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bartlett_Museum,_Inc." title="Bartlett Museum, Inc.">Bartlett Museum, Inc.</a> in <a href="/wiki/Amesbury,_Massachusetts" title="Amesbury, Massachusetts">Amesbury, Massachusetts</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Bartlett retired to his home in Kingston and died there on May 19, 1795. The cause of death was paralysis.<sup id="cite_ref-AMB_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is buried next to his wife Mary in the <a href="/wiki/Plains_Cemetery" title="Plains Cemetery">Plains Cemetery</a>, behind the <a href="/wiki/First_Universalist_Church_(Kingston,_New_Hampshire)" title="First Universalist Church (Kingston, New Hampshire)">First Universalist Church</a> in Kingston.<sup id="cite_ref-CongBio_4-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CongBio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seven-inch medallions located at Bartlett and his wife's graves were awarded by the <a href="/wiki/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution" title="Daughters of the American Revolution">Daughters of the American Revolution</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sons_of_the_American_Revolution" title="Sons of the American Revolution">Sons of the American Revolution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727_13-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A bronze statue of Bartlett stands in the town square of <a href="/wiki/Amesbury,_Massachusetts" title="Amesbury, Massachusetts">Amesbury, Massachusetts</a>. His portrait hangs in the <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_State_House" title="New Hampshire State House">State House</a> in <a href="/wiki/Concord,_New_Hampshire" title="Concord, New Hampshire">Concord, New Hampshire</a>, drawn from an original by <a href="/wiki/John_Trumbull" title="John Trumbull">John Trumbull</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727_13-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Bartlett,_New_Hampshire" title="Bartlett, New Hampshire">Bartlett, New Hampshire</a>, is named in his honor, along with the Josiah Bartlett Elementary School. Bartlett is featured on a <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_historical_markers" title="New Hampshire historical markers">New Hampshire historical marker</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_New_Hampshire_historical_markers_(26%E2%80%9350)#46" title="List of New Hampshire historical markers (26–50)">number 46</a>) along <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_Route_111" title="New Hampshire Route 111">New Hampshire Route 111</a> in Kingston.<sup id="cite_ref-ByNumber_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ByNumber-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Bartlett School in Amesbury, which operated from 1870 until 1968, operates since then as the <a href="/wiki/Bartlett_Museum,_Inc." title="Bartlett Museum, Inc.">Bartlett Museum, Inc.</a>, a nonprofit museum.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The poem <i>One of the Signers</i> was written by <a href="/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier" title="John Greenleaf Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</a> to honor Bartlett.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcGee195534_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcGee195534-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The main character in the <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> drama series <i><a href="/wiki/The_West_Wing" title="The West Wing">The West Wing</a></i>, President Josiah Bartlet, is a fictional character depicted as a descendant of the Declaration of Independence signatory.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERoberts200595_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERoberts200595-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See 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Josiah Bartlett was born before Britain and the British Empire (including colonial America) switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar in 1752.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The biography for Bartlett's papers states that Bartlett began his apprenticeship in 1745<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n36_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n36-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and "about 1747".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBartlett_Papers1979n22-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dr. Ordway married the widow, Tirzah Titcomb Bartlett, of his Uncle Thomas Bartlett.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199726-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Barthelmas has different years of birth for two of the children: Ezra (1760) and Josiah (1765).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarthelmas199727-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Although his lodge is not known, his great-grandson, Levi S. Bartlett, had a letter written by Josiah to his son Ezra saying, "I attended a Mason meeting last night, and as soon as you can I wish you would join the Masons."<sup id="cite_ref-Denslow_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Denslow-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The biography by Congress states that in 1784, he was appointed justice to the <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_Supreme_Court" title="New Hampshire Supreme Court">New Hampshire Supreme Court</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CongBio_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CongBio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Josiah_Bartlett&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Bernstein2001-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bernstein2001_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBernstein2011" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Richard_B._Bernstein" title="Richard B. 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McFarland. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-0318-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-0318-9"><bdi>978-0-7864-0318-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+signers+of+the+Declaration+of+Independence&rft.pub=McFarland&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=978-0-7864-0318-9&rft.aulast=Barthelmas&rft.aufirst=Della+Gray&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fsignersofdeclara00bart&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJosiah+Bartlett" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGoodrich1841" class="citation book cs1">Goodrich, Charles A. (1841). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.org/details/goodrichssigners00charrich"><i>Lives of the signers to the Declaration of independence</i></a>. Hartford: R. G. H. Huntington. pp. 131–138.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lives+of+the+signers+to+the+Declaration+of+independence&rft.place=Hartford&rft.pages=131-138&rft.pub=R.+G.+H.+Huntington&rft.date=1841&rft.aulast=Goodrich&rft.aufirst=Charles+A.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fgoodrichssigners00charrich&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJosiah+Bartlett" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreenGreen1912" class="citation book cs1">Green, Harry Clinton; Green, Mary Wolcott (1912). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHwDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA452"><i>Pioneer Mothers of America</i></a>. G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 452. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7222-8426-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7222-8426-1"><bdi>978-0-7222-8426-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Pioneer+Mothers+of+America&rft.pages=452&rft.pub=G.+P.+Putnam%27s+Sons&rft.date=1912&rft.isbn=978-0-7222-8426-1&rft.aulast=Green&rft.aufirst=Harry+Clinton&rft.au=Green%2C+Mary+Wolcott&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DZHwDAAAAYAAJ%26pg%3DPA452&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJosiah+Bartlett" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaier1982" class="citation book cs1">Maier, Pauline (1982). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/oldrevolutionari0000maie/page/162/"><i>The old revolutionaries : political lives in the age of Samuel Adams</i></a>. New York: Vintage Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-394-75073-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-394-75073-6"><bdi>978-0-394-75073-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+old+revolutionaries+%3A+political+lives+in+the+age+of+Samuel+Adams&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Vintage+Books&rft.date=1982&rft.isbn=978-0-394-75073-6&rft.aulast=Maier&rft.aufirst=Pauline&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Foldrevolutionari0000maie%2Fpage%2F162%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJosiah+Bartlett" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcGee1955" class="citation book cs1">McGee, Dorothy Horton (1955). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.org/details/famoussignersofd00mcge"><i>Famous signers of the Declaration; with photographic illus</i></a>. New York: Dodd, Mead.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Famous+signers+of+the+Declaration%3B+with+photographic+illus&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Dodd%2C+Mead&rft.date=1955&rft.aulast=McGee&rft.aufirst=Dorothy+Horton&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ffamoussignersofd00mcge&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJosiah+Bartlett" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoberts2005" class="citation book cs1">Roberts, Cokie (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/foundingmothersw00robe/page/96"><i>Founding Mothers : The women who raised our nation</i></a>. New York: Perennial. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-009026-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-009026-5"><bdi>978-0-06-009026-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Founding+Mothers+%3A+The+women+who+raised+our+nation&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Perennial&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-06-009026-5&rft.aulast=Roberts&rft.aufirst=Cokie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ffoundingmothersw00robe%2Fpage%2F96&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJosiah+Bartlett" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Josiah_Bartlett&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span 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href="/wiki/Francis_Lewis" title="Francis Lewis">Francis Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Morris" title="Lewis Morris">Lewis Morris</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">New Jersey</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Stockton_(Continental_Congressman)" title="Richard Stockton (Continental Congressman)">Richard Stockton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Witherspoon" title="John Witherspoon">John Witherspoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Hopkinson" title="Francis Hopkinson">Francis Hopkinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hart_(New_Jersey_politician)" title="John Hart (New Jersey politician)">John Hart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Clark" title="Abraham Clark">Abraham Clark</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pennsylvania</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Morris_(financier)" title="Robert Morris (financier)">Robert Morris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Rush" title="Benjamin Rush">Benjamin Rush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Morton_(American_politician)" title="John Morton (American politician)">John Morton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Clymer" title="George Clymer">George Clymer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Smith_(Pennsylvania_politician)" title="James Smith (Pennsylvania politician)">James Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Taylor_(Pennsylvania_politician)" title="George Taylor (Pennsylvania politician)">George Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Wilson_(Founding_Father)" title="James Wilson (Founding Father)">James Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Ross_(American_politician)" title="George Ross (American politician)">George Ross</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Delaware</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Read_(American_politician,_born_1733)" title="George Read (American politician, born 1733)">George Read</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caesar_Rodney" title="Caesar Rodney">Caesar Rodney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_McKean" title="Thomas McKean">Thomas McKean</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Maryland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Chase" title="Samuel Chase">Samuel Chase</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Paca" title="William Paca">William Paca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Stone" title="Thomas Stone">Thomas Stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Carroll_of_Carrollton" title="Charles Carroll of Carrollton">Charles Carroll of Carrollton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Virginia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Wythe" title="George Wythe">George Wythe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Henry_Lee" title="Richard Henry Lee">Richard Henry Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison_V" title="Benjamin Harrison V">Benjamin Harrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Nelson_Jr." title="Thomas Nelson Jr.">Thomas Nelson Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Lightfoot_Lee" title="Francis Lightfoot Lee">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carter_Braxton" title="Carter Braxton">Carter Braxton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">North Carolina</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Hooper" title="William Hooper">William Hooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hewes" title="Joseph Hewes">Joseph Hewes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Penn_(North_Carolina_politician)" title="John Penn (North Carolina politician)">John Penn</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">South Carolina</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Rutledge" title="Edward Rutledge">Edward Rutledge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Heyward_Jr." title="Thomas Heyward Jr.">Thomas Heyward Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lynch_Jr." title="Thomas Lynch Jr.">Thomas Lynch Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Middleton" title="Arthur Middleton">Arthur Middleton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Georgia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Button_Gwinnett" title="Button Gwinnett">Button Gwinett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyman_Hall" title="Lyman Hall">Lyman Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Walton" title="George Walton">George Walton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Delegates voting<br />for Independence<br />(did not sign)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b>New York</b>: <a href="/wiki/Robert_R._Livingston" title="Robert R. Livingston">Robert R. Livingston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Wisner" title="Henry Wisner">Henry Wisner</a><br /> <b>Maryland</b>: <a href="/wiki/John_Rogers_(Continental_Congress)" title="John Rogers (Continental Congress)">John Rogers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Tilghman" title="Matthew Tilghman">Matthew Tilghman</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Halifax_Resolves" title="Halifax Resolves">Halifax Resolves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Declaration_of_Rights" title="Virginia Declaration of Rights">Virginia Declaration of Rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Continental_Congress" title="Second Continental Congress">Second Continental Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_Resolution" title="Lee Resolution">Lee Resolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Committee_of_Five" title="Committee of Five">Committee of Five</a> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/All_men_are_created_equal" title="All men are created equal">All men are created equal</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Life,_Liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_Happiness" title="Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness">Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Consent_of_the_governed" title="Consent of the governed">Consent of the governed</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grievances_of_the_United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Grievances of the United States Declaration of Independence">27 grievances</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Physical_history_of_the_United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Physical history of the United States Declaration of Independence">Document's history</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Signing_of_the_United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Signing of the United States Declaration of Independence">signing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Thomson" title="Charles Thomson">Charles Thomson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timothy_Matlack" title="Timothy Matlack">Timothy Matlack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Journals_of_the_Continental_Congress" title="Journals of the Continental Congress">Journals of the Continental Congress</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Colonies" title="United Colonies">United Colonies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independence_Hall" title="Independence Hall">Independence Hall</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Syng_inkstand" title="Syng inkstand">Syng inkstand</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Display<br />and legacy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Archives_Building" title="National Archives Building">National Archives</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charters_of_Freedom" title="Charters of Freedom">Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independence_Day_(United_States)" title="Independence Day (United States)">Independence Day</a></li> <li>Anniversaries <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Centennial_Exposition" title="Centennial Exposition">Centennial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sesquicentennial_Exposition" title="Sesquicentennial Exposition">Sesquicentennial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Bicentennial" title="United States Bicentennial">Bicentennial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Semiquincentennial" title="United States Semiquincentennial">Semiquincentennial</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memorial_to_the_56_Signers_of_the_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence">Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence</a> (Washington, D.C.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Signers_Monument" title="Signers Monument">Signers Monument (Georgia)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congress_Voting_Independence" title="Congress Voting Independence">Pine portrait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_(painting)" title="Declaration of Independence (painting)">Trumbull portrait</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Articles_of_Confederation_and_Perpetual_Union" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link 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and <a href="/wiki/Perpetual_Union" title="Perpetual Union">Perpetual Union</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States" title="Founding Fathers of the United States">Founding Fathers of the United States</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Signatories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Primary drafter</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dickinson" title="John Dickinson">John Dickinson</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">New Hampshire</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rhode Island</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ellery" title="William Ellery">William Ellery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Marchant" title="Henry Marchant">Henry Marchant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Collins_(Continental_Congress)" title="John Collins (Continental Congress)">John Collins</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Connecticut</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Sherman" title="Roger Sherman">Roger Sherman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Huntington_(Connecticut_politician)" title="Samuel Huntington (Connecticut politician)">Samuel Huntington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Wolcott" title="Oliver Wolcott">Oliver Wolcott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titus_Hosmer" title="Titus Hosmer">Titus Hosmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Adams_(politician)" title="Andrew Adams (politician)">Andrew Adams</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">New York</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Duane" title="James Duane">James Duane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Lewis" title="Francis Lewis">Francis Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Duer_(Continental_congressman)" title="William Duer (Continental congressman)">William Duer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gouverneur_Morris" title="Gouverneur Morris">Gouverneur Morris</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">New Jersey</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Witherspoon" title="John Witherspoon">John Witherspoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Scudder" title="Nathaniel Scudder">Nathaniel Scudder</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pennsylvania</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Morris_(financier)" title="Robert Morris (financier)">Robert Morris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Roberdeau" title="Daniel Roberdeau">Daniel Roberdeau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Bayard_Smith" title="Jonathan Bayard Smith">Jonathan Bayard Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Clingan" title="William Clingan">William Clingan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Reed_(politician)" title="Joseph Reed (politician)">Joseph Reed</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Delaware</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_McKean" title="Thomas McKean">Thomas McKean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Dickinson" title="John Dickinson">John Dickinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Van_Dyke_(politician,_born_1738)" title="Nicholas Van Dyke (politician, born 1738)">Nicholas Van Dyke</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Maryland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Hanson" title="John Hanson">John Hanson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Carroll" title="Daniel Carroll">Daniel Carroll</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Virginia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Henry_Lee" title="Richard Henry Lee">Richard Henry Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Banister_(lawyer)" title="John Banister (lawyer)">John Banister</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Adams_(politician)" title="Thomas Adams (politician)">Thomas Adams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Harvie" title="John Harvie">John Harvie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Lightfoot_Lee" title="Francis Lightfoot Lee">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">North Carolina</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Penn_(North_Carolina_politician)" title="John Penn (North Carolina politician)">John Penn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornelius_Harnett" title="Cornelius Harnett">Cornelius Harnett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Williams_(Continental_Congress)" title="John Williams (Continental Congress)">John Williams</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">South Carolina</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Laurens" title="Henry Laurens">Henry Laurens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Drayton" title="William Henry Drayton">William Henry Drayton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Mathews_(lawyer)" title="John Mathews (lawyer)">John Mathews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Hutson" title="Richard Hutson">Richard Hutson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Heyward_Jr." title="Thomas Heyward Jr.">Thomas Heyward Jr.</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Georgia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Walton_(Continental_Congress)" title="John Walton (Continental 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