Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren Bartlett

Continuing my series on ancestors who can be found in Anderson's The Great Migration Begins (1995).

Robert Bartlett arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts Colony, in 1623 on the Anne. He was a wine cooper, a freeman by 1632/3, and probably illiterate, since he signed all deeds with a mark. His origins are unknown, but it is estimated he was born in 1604, based on his date of marriage.

Highlights of his career in Plymouth include being summoned before the court on May 1, 1660, and convicted of "speaking contemptuously of singing of psalms". He also served on various committees, particularly those related to laying out or surveying highways and land. He was on the list of men in Plymouth who were permitted to bear arms in 1643. 

Before 1629, he married Mary Warren, the daughter of his neighbors Richard and Elizabeth Warren. Robert, Mrs. Elizabeth Warren (the mother-in-law) and his brother-in-law Thomas Little appear frequently in documentation pertaining to land and crops in and around Plymouth. He seems to have owned quite a bit of land. He received one acre upon arrival (as did all of Anne's passengers), but subsequent documents mention at least 100 acres of land.

Robert and Mary had eight known children: Benjamin, Rebecca, Mary, Sarah, Joseph, Elizabeth, Lydia, and Mercy. We are descendants of the second son, Joseph, who was born around 1639 and married Hannah Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope.

Robert gave a spoken will on September 19, 1676. In October, the inventory of his estate totaled 170 pounds, 16s, 6d, including 100 pounds in real estate, 2 houses and a barn.

Robert Bartlett -- Mary Warren
     - Joseph Bartlett -- Hannah Pope
          -Robert Bartlett -- Sarah Cooke
               - Lemuel Bartlett -- Mary Doty
                    - Lemuel Bartlett -- Hannah Tinkham
                         - Lydia Bartlett -- Thomas Kinney
                              - Simeon Bartlett Kinney -- Olive Doane
                                   - Thomas Kinney -- Mary Elizabeth Houghton
                                        - Julia Kinney -- Ernest Hancock


References:

Anderson, Robert Charles 1995 The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. New England Historic Genealogical Society.