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Bartlett & Welford, and while residing in New York acted as corresponding secretary of the New York historical society, and also became a member of the American ethnographical society. From 1850 to 1853 he acted on the commission for determining the boundary between Mexico and the U.S., and from 1855 to 1872 was secretary of state for Rhode Island. He was for several years librarian of the John Carter Brown library and collected an exhaustive catalogue which was published in four volumes. His publications are: "The Progress of Ethnology" (1847); "A Dictionary of Americanisms" (1850, of which two two later editions were issued in 1859 and 1877); "Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations" (ten volumes 1856-'65); "Bibliography of Rhode Island" (1864); "Index to the Acts, etc. of the General Assembly of Rhode Island, 1758-1862" (1863); "Literature of the Rebellion" (1866); "Memoirs of Rhode Island Officers in the War of the Rebellion" (1867); "Primeval Man" (1868); "History of the Wanton Family of Newport, R.I." (1878), and "Genealogy of the Russell Family" (1879). He died May 28, 1886.

BARTLETT, John Russell, naval officer, was born in Providence, R.I., Sept. 26, 1843; son of John Russell Bartlett, author. He entered the naval academy in 1859, and in 1862, on board the sloop Mississippi, was present at the engagements at Forts Jackson and St. Philip, at the capture of New Orleans and the attack on Vicksburg. He was transferred to the Susquehanna, having in the meantime been promoted ensign and then lieutenant. He assisted at both attacks on Fort Fisher, his gallantry at the latter engagement receiving commendatory mention in the reports both of Commodore Godon and of Lieutenant-Commander Blake. Promotion as lieutenant-commander followed, and he spent the two succeeding years, 1867 to 1869, at the naval academy. He was commissioned commander in 1877, and assigned to duty as hydrographer to the bureau of navigation at Washington, D.C.

BARTLETT, Joseph Jackson, soldier, was born in Binghamton, N.Y., Nov. 4, 1834. He was educated at an academy, studied law at Utica, was admitted to the bar at Syracuse, and practised in Binghamton, 1858-'61. He entered the Union army as major of the 27th New York volunteers and was promoted colonel in September, 1861. He commanded a brigade at Gaines's Mill, June 27, 1862, and at Crampton's Gap, Sept. 14, 1862; was commissioned brigadier-general in October, 1862; and commanded a brigade at Salem Heights, May 3, 1863, where out of a force of 1500 men he lost 550 officers and men. He was breveted major-general Aug. 1, 1864, and was present at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. He was mustered out Jan. 15, 1866, was appointed United States minister to Sweden and Norway by President Johnson, serving, 1867-'69, and was deputy commissioner of pensions, 1885-'89. He died in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 14, 1893.

BARTLETT, Josiah, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born at Amesbury, Mass., Nov. 21, 1729. He received an academic education and a thorough course in medicine, and in 1750 began practice in Kingston, N.H. His methods of medical treatment were original, and largely acquired while doctoring himself through a protracted fever. His experience being in direct opposition to the usages of the profession, he departed from the "old school," and his success won him a large practice. He introduced Peruvian bark into use in 1754. In 1765 he became a member of the colonial legislature of New Hampshire and held the office by annual re-election until the revolution. While in the legislature he opposed the royalists, and the governor made an unsuccessful attempt to win him over to his support by appointing him a magistrate and commissioned him a lieutenant-colonel of militia. His zeal in the cause of the colonies was not abated, however, and in 1775 he was deposed from both offices. He was a member of the committee of safety which conducted the affairs of government after the departure of Governor Wentworth from the colony in 1775, and he was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1775 and 1776, being the first to cast a vote for the Declaration of Independence and the second to sign it. He resigned as delegate to Congress shortly after he was appointed general naval agent, and later accompanied General Stark to Bennington, having been charged with the medical supplies of the New Hampshire troops. In 1778-'79 he was again a delegate to Congress, and in November, 1779, resigned his seat to accept the office of chief justice of the court of common pleas of New Hampshire. He became muster-master in 1780; justice of the superior court of the state in 1782; chief justice in 1788, and in the latter year served as a delegate to the convention called to ratify the federal constitution. Though declining an election to the first United States Congress as senator in 1789 on the plea of age, he accepted the presidency of the state when it was offered him by the legislature in 1790, and after serving for three years, being re-elected by popular vote each year, he became in 1793 the first governor of the state under its new constitution. He received the honorary degree of A.M. and M.D. from Dartmouth college, and was for many years the president of the New Hampshire medical society. He died at Kingston, N.H., May 19, 1795.