Collection number: MS 269
Size:
(1 obox)
(0.3 cu.ft.)
About Levi Bartlett (1763-1828)
Dr. Levi Bartlett, Esq. (3 September 1763 – 30 January 1828) was a doctor, judge, politician, and post master from Kingston, NH. He was the son of Dr. Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795) of Kingston, signer of the Declaration of Independence and veteran of the Revolutionary War, as well as New Hampshire’s first governor. His mother was Mary Bartlett (1730-1789). Levi Bartlett married first Sarah Sally Hook (1765-1793) in 1791 and later Abagail Stevens (1774-1840) in 1807.
Levi Bartlett studied medicine with both his father and Thomas Kittredge of Andover MA, and acquired his legal training from his father. He was a Justice to the Court of Common Pleas in Rockingham County and the Circuit Court, served the community extensively as a doctor, and served in the New Hampshire Militia and as being Kingston’s representative to the NH Legislature.
For more information, see: Levi Bartlett. Genealogical and biographical sketches of the Bartlett family in England and America. Lawrence: G. M. Merrill & Crocker, Printer, 1876.
About the Levi Bartlett Papers (1773-1827 and undated)
The Levi Bartlett Papers, 1773-1827 and undated, consist of a variety of papers related to the educational, legal, and social lives of Levi Bartlett. It is also possible some papers are from his father, Josiah Bartlett. Documents include:
- Records of road taxes, tax rolls, and lists of persons deemed tax-exempt
- Voting affidavits, and a paper recounting memoirs of the Declaration of Independence and Continental Congress
- Records of money paid to Kingston’s minister
- Case reviews, petitions from plaintiffs & defendants (including women petitioning for child support), writs of summons and seizure, and signed affidavits
- Notices of auctions of seized property, and petitions for release from debtor’s jail
- Wills (notably from women)
- Receipts for goods and services
- Notes from school studies in areas such as anthropology, physics, chemistry, and the classics (mostly undated)
Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Oversize Box 6, Levi Bartlett Papers, 1773-1827, MS 269, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA.
Acquisitions Information
Purchase from Carmen Valentino Rare Books, ca. 2015.
Related Material
B MS c54 Levi Bartlett papers. Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine), Harvard University.
Collection Arrangement
Chronological. Original order was not discernable upon receipt of materials.
