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Robert Bartlett arrived on the "Anne" in 1623 and recieved one acre in the division of land. He was unmarried in the 1627 division of cattle. He was in the 1623 list of Freemen. He married Mary Warren, daughter of Richard Warren, Mayflower Passenger.
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He arrived on the "Anne" in 1623 and received one acre of land in the 1623 Division of Land. Mostly based on Mayflower Families in Progress. !Cooke, Raeola Ford, GENEALOGY OF ELIHUE WARRED, A DESCENDANT OF RICHARD OF THE MAYFLOWER AND OF WILLIAM SUMNER WITH ALLIED FAMILIES, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1980, p. 1. Death date 19/29 Sep 1676.
He and Ed Shaw had servant agreement recorded in Plymouth Colony Records I, 104 (S&ST p 108).
Per Mass Pioneers:
Was a Cooper in Plymouth from 1633, was a juryman and town officer. Will probated 29 Oct 1676, bequeathed whole estate to wife. The "Barttelot" family is old in England, probably coming there with William the Conqueror. Robert was in his teens when the ship "Anne" safely unloaded him on a July day in 1623, at Plymouth. He was listed as a "Cooper". Before being permitted to sail for America he had to be healthy, and show some evidence of possessing a useful occupation. He had both qualifications in abundance. On the same boat coming over was Mary Warren, a girl about 15 years old, daughter of Richard Warren, a Mayflower passenger. That fact probably did not make the trip any more unpleasant. They were married later. Robert received one acre on the south side of Plymouth, and became a very useful citizen of the Colony.
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Bartlett, Robert
Paul W. Prindle, "The Probable Ancestry of Robert Bartlett of Plymouth, suggests the Robert Bartlett who arrived at Plymouth on the Anne in 1623 was identical with the Robert Bartlett baptized at Puddleton, Dorset, England on 27 May 1603. The fact that he was not one of the 1626 Purchasers might indicate that he arrived as a servant and was still in this status in 1626.
Bartlett married Mary Warren, daughter of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren, ca. 1629(Wakefield, Plymouth Marriages, p. 4). On 1 July 1633 he and Mrs. Elizabeth Warren were assigned mowing rights on the sameland they had used the previous year, probably close to where Mrs. Warren and her other two sons-in-law lived. On 28 May 1635 Thomas Little, who had married Mrs Warren's sister Anna, gave his brother-in-law Robert Bartlett a parcel of land beyond Eel River to build a house on.
On 1 December 1635 Richard Stinnings (later hanged for murdering an Indian) apprenticed himself to Robert Bartlett for nine years. On 4 August 1638 John Barnes sold Robert Bartlett the remaining three years of Thomas Shrive's indenture. Though Bartlett held such positions as grand juror and highway surveyor, he did not serve in the higher positions of government.
On 7 October 1652 Bartlett petitioned the court because "sondry speeches have pased from som who pretend themselves to bee the sole and right heires unto the lands on which the said Robert Bartlet now liveth, at the Ell river, in the townshipp of Plymouth, which hee, the said Robert, had bestowed on him by his mother in law, Mis Elizabeth Warren, in marriage with herdaughter; by which said speeches and passages the said Robert had ben dishartened in his proceedin either in building, fencing, etc.," and the court confirmed his right to the lands. On 1 June 1658 the court appointed several men to settle the bounds between Bartlett's land and that of his brother-in-law Nathaniel Warren. On 1 May 1660 Bartlett was convicted by the Court of Assistants for speaking contemptuously about the ordinance of singing psalms, and he said he hoped it would be a warning to him, and he promised to acknowledge his fault to those he had earlier spoken to. On moving to Nauset in 1649, Richard Church sold his realestate at Eel River to Robert Bartlett for �25.
Bartlett made a nuncupative will 19 September 1676, sworn 29 October 1676, leaving his estate to his wife to dispose of to their children. Their children were Benjamin, Rebecca, Mary, Sarah, Joseph, Elizabeth, Lydia, and Mercy, all of whom married and had descendants. After the second generation, Bartlett descendants have sometimes "suffered grievously at the hands of various writers," as Mrs. Barclay wrote in "The Family of Samuel Bartlett of Duxbury, Mass.,". (Also see Eugene A. Stratton, "Mary, Wife of Nathaniel Atwood," which corrects a widely disseminated error regarding Bartlett descendants, and Barbar Lambert Merrick,"Sarah (Brewster) Bartlett.
MARRIAGE: Torrey, Clarence Almon. NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO1700; 1620-1700; p. 48; Baltimore, MD: Genealogical PublishingCounty, Inc. 1985; Book owned by Melissa Harison, OAK Harbor,WA; .
