Jehosephat Bartlett, Son of Robert Bartlett and Mary (Mayflower) Warren

Debunking Joseph Bartlett...

One such former ancestor is Joseph Bartlett, son of Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren and grandson of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren.  In fact, this is a common genealogy, which you can find on various sites online as well as in family history books.  Don't let me catch it in your family history book!

This particular mistaken lineage is everywhere.

One look at the most recent publication of Mayflower Families, Volume 18 (Descendants of Richard Warren) forever debunks this lineage and, once you have seen the true lineage of Richard Warren and son-in-law Robert Bartlett, there is no going back.

Mary Warren, daughter of Mayflower passenger, Richard Warren, did indeed marry a Robert Bartlett.  However, these are the children of Mary Warren and Robert Bartlett:

1. Benjamin Bartlett, born 1633


2. Rebecca Bartlett, born 1634


3. Mary Bartlett, born circa 1634


4. Sarah Bartlett


5. Joseph Bartlett, born circa 1639


6. Elizabeth Bartlett, born circa 1643


7. Lydia Bartlett, born 8 June 1648


8. Mercy Bartlett, born 10 March 1650/1

"What's the problem?" you say?  "Joseph Bartlett is child number five!"

The "problem" is the Joseph Bartlett born to Mary Warren and Robert Bartlett was born around 1639, five or six years earlier than our Joseph Bartlett.  Furthermore, the Joseph Bartlett born in 1639 was born in Plymouth and never left Plymouth.  Our Joseph Bartlett was a well-known early settler of Newton, Massachusetts, who was known to have been born in England.  Dorset, England, to be exact.  Our Joseph Bartlett lived in Cambridge Village, Newton, Massachusetts until his death on 26 December 1702.

Furthermore, Joseph Bartlett of Plymouth married Hannah Pope around 1662 and died in Plymouth on 18 February 1711/2.  Children of Joseph Bartlett of Plymouth and Hannah Pope are:

1. Robert Bartlett, born circa 1663


2. Joseph Bartlett, born circa 1665


3. Elnathan Bartlett


4. Hannah Bartlett


5. Mary Bartlett, born circa 1672


6. Sarah Bartlett


7. Benjamin Bartlett, born circa 1679


8. Thomas Bartlett, baptized 1683

Joseph Bartlett of Newton married Mary Mercy Waite and had a son, John Bartlett, who married Patience Cady and had a son named Nathaniel Bartlett, who married Sarah Thompson.

Children of Nathaniel Bartlett and Sarah Thompson are:

1. Patience Bartlett


2. John Bartlett


3. Mary Bartlett


4. Lucy Bartlett


5. Sarah Bartlett


6. Nathan Bartlett


7. Submit Bartlett

Our ancestor is child number 5, Sarah Bartlett, who married Ephraim Harrington, who fathered approximately twelve children, among them, the physician and surgeon, Amasa Harrington, who married Thankful Dean.  Amasa Harrington and Thankful Dean are the parents of W.C.D. Harrington, who married Mary Ann "Belle" Parker, who are the maternal grandparents of my great grandmother, Nellie Butterfield.

Jehosephat!

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