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Robert Bartlett ROBERT BARTLETT ROBERT BARTLETT HDT WHAT? INDEX ROBERT BARTLETT ROBERT BARTLETT 1623 July: Hobomok witnessed Plymouth’s prayers for rain, prayers which apparently brought to an end a six-week drought, and became intrigued by the powers of this Christian religion. Per John Camden Hotten’s EMIGRANT ANCESTORS (1874), after the vessels Anne and Little James had parted company at sea the Anne had arrived at Boston harbor during the latter part of June, with the Little James arriving some week or ten days later. At this point the Anne and the Little James came to anchor at the Plymouth beachhead, bringing new settlers along with many of the wives and children that had been left behind in Leyden when the Mayflower had departed in 1620. Among that boatload of people was Robert Bartlett, who would get married in 1628 with Mary Warren, daughter of Richard Warren. They would produce Benjamin Bartlett, and then in 1638 would produce Joseph Bartlett, and in addition there would be 6 daughters: Rebecca Bartlett who would get married n December 20, 1649 with William Harlow; Mary Bartlett who would get married on September 19, 1651 with Richard Foster, and then on July 8, 1659 would remarry with Jonathan Morey; Sarah Bartlett who would get married on December 23, 1656 with Samuel Rider of Yarmouth; Elizabeth Bartlett who would get married on December 20, 1661 with Anthony Sprague of Hingham; Lydia Bartlett who would be born on June 8, 1647 and get married with James Barnaby and then get married with John Nelson of Middleborough; and Mercy Bartlett who would be born on March 10, 1651 and get married on December 25, 1668 with John Ivey of Boston. This passenger Robert Bartlett was of the first purchase of Dartmouth, and would die in 1676 at the age of 73. His widow Mary Warren Bartlett would remarry on October 24 either in the year 1692 or in the year 1699 with Thomas Delano. The George Morton who was arriving was not the son of the infamous Thomas Morton of Merry Mount yet, no doubt, he was a relative of that numerous family and perhaps a brother of the 2nd Thomas Morton. He had been born at Austerfield in Yorkshire and had been baptized on February 12, 1599. He arrived at Boston and then Plymouth in the Ann with a wife Juliana Carpenter Morton whom he had married at Leyden on July 23, 1612, a daughter of Alexander Carpenter, and four or five children counted with Experience Mitchell for 8 in the 1624 division of lands, including his eldest son Nathaniel Morton, son John Morton, son Ephraim Morton, daughter Patience Morton, daughter Sarah Morton, and Thomas Morton, Jr., the son of Thomas Morton of the Fortune. Edwin Morton of Plymouth would be one of his violinist descendants. The ship’s list of passengers was: Annable, Anthony (settled in Scituate) Jane (Momford) Annable, wife Sarah Annable, daughter Hannah Annable, daughter Bangs, Edward (settled in Eastham) Bartlett, Robert Buckett, Mary Brewster, Patience (a daughter of Elder Brewster) Brewster, Fear (a daughter of Elder Brewster) Clarke, Thomas (his gravestone is the oldest on Plymouth Burial Hill) Conant, Christopher Cooke, Mrs. Hester (Mahieu) HDT WHAT? INDEX ROBERT BARTLETT ROBERT BARTLETT Jane Cooke, daughter Jacob Cooke, son Hester Cooke, daughter Dix, Anthony Faunce, John Flavel, Goodwife (probably Mrs. Elizabeth Flavel, wife of Thomas Flavell of the Fortune) Flood, Edmond Fuller, Mrs. Bridget (Lee) (apparently the wife of Dr. Samuel Fuller) Godbertson, Godbert or Cuthbertson, Cuthbert (a Hollander rather than a Pilgrim) Sarah (Allerton) (Vincent) (Priest) Godbertson, wife Samuel Godbertson, son Sarah Priest, step-daughter Mary Priest, step-daughter Hatherly, Timothy Heard, William Hicks, Mrs. Margaret (with her children below; family of Robert Hickes of the Fortune) Samuel Hicks, son Lydia Hicks, daughter Hilton, Mrs. William (with her children below; William Hilton had sent for them before his death) William Hilton, son Mary Hilton, daughter Holman, Edward Jenny, John (Why wasn’t he on the list, was he a man of color? He had “liberty, in 1636, to erect a mill for grinding and beating of corn upon the brook of Plymouth”) Kempton, Manasseh Long, Robert Mitchell, Experience (would marry Jane Cooke, daughter of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower) Morton, George (paterfamilias; family below) Juliana Morton, wife Nathanial Morton, son (afterwards the 1st Secretary of Plymouth) John Morton, son Ephraim Morton, son Patience Morton, daughter Sarah Morton, daughter Morton, Thomas Jr. (son of Thomas Morton of the Fortune) Newton, Ellen Oldham, John Mrs. Oldham, wife Lucretia Oldham, sister Palmer, Mrs. Frances (wife of William Palmer of the Fortune) HDT WHAT? INDEX ROBERT BARTLETT ROBERT BARTLETT Penn, Christian Pierce, Abraham Pratt, Joshua Rand, James Rattliff, Robert Mrs. Rattliff, wife Snow, Nicholas (settled in Eastham) Southworth, Alice (widow, formerly named Carpenter, would remarry as the 2nd wife of Governor William Bradford) Sprague, Francis (settled in Duxbury) Anna Sprague, wife Mercy Sprague, daughter Standish, Mrs. Barbara (would become the 2d wife of Captain Miles Standish) Tilden, Thomas (Ann?) Tilden, wife child Tilden Tracy, Stephen Wallen, Ralph Joyce Wallen, wife Warren, Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Warren, daughter Elizabeth Warren, daughter Ann Warren, daughter Sarah Warren, daughter Abigail Warren, daughter Mr. Perce’s two servants THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE HISTORIAN TYPICALLY SUPPOSES NOW TO BE THE WHY OF THEN. THE REALITY IS VERY MUCH TO THE CONTRARY, FOR NOW IS NOT THE WHY OF THEN: INSTEAD, THEN WAS THE HOW OF NOW. ANOTHER WAY TO SAY THIS IS THAT HISTORIANS WHO ANTICIPATE OFFEND AGAINST REALITY. A HISTORY WRITTEN IN THE LIGHT OF SUBSEQUENT EVENTS AMOUNTS TO SPURIOUS MAKE- BELIEVE. TO DO A GOOD JOB OF RECORDING HISTORY, ONE MUST BECOME IGNORANT (OR FEIGN IGNORANCE) OF EVERYTHING THAT WE NOW KNOW TO HAVE FOLLOWED. Robert Bartlett “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX ROBERT BARTLETT ROBERT BARTLETT 1817 October 8, Wednesday: Since the very last thing anyone should ever have allowed a person like John C. Calhoun to be was the US Secretary of War, on this day John became the US Secretary of War. What on earth were we thinking? (Oh, come on, you know what we were thinking: we were thinking that if we told this man that we expected him to defend us from our enemies, it would be rather less likely that he would be attempting to kill us.) Robert Bartlett was born, son of Captain Isaac Bartlett of the brig Hannah of Plymouth, Massachusetts with Rebecca Bartlett, both sides of the family being of Pilgrim descent and both this mother and this father, although not closely related, tracing their origins to the Robert Bartlett who had come over in the Anne in 1623. TRALFAMADORIANS EXPERIENCE REALITY IN 4 DIMENSIONS RATHER THAN 3 AND HAVE SIMULTANEOUS ACCESS TO PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. THEY ARE ABLE TO SEE ALONG THE TIMELINE OF THE UNIVERSE TO THE EXACT TIME AND PLACE AT WHICH AS THE RESULT OF A TRALFAMADORIAN EXPERIMENT, THE UNIVERSE IS ANNIHILATED. BILLY PILGRIM, WHILE CAGED IN A TRALFAMADORIAN ZOO, ACQUIRES THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD TIME, AND SO WHEN HE RETURNS TO EARTH, HE BECOMES A HISTORIAN VERY LIKE ALL OUR OTHER HISTORIANS: ALTHOUGH HE CANNOT HIMSELF SEE INTO THE FUTURE THE WAY THE TRALFAMADORIANS DO, LIKE ALL OUR OTHER HUMAN HISTORIANS DO HE PRETENDS TO BE ABLE TO SEE ALL PERIODS OF OUR PAST TRAJECTORY NOT WITH THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE LIVING DURING THOSE PERIODS, BUT WITH THE OVERARCHING EYE OF GOD. THIS ENABLES HIM TO PRETEND TO BE VERY VERY WISE AND TO SOUND VERY VERY IMPRESSIVE! Robert Bartlett “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX ROBERT BARTLETT ROBERT BARTLETT 1819 June 18, Friday: Vincenzo Bellini arrived in Naples from Catania to matriculate at the Real College de musica di San Sebastiano. Rebecca Bartlett was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, daughter of Captain Isaac Bartlett of the brig Hannah of Plymouth, Massachusetts with Rebecca Bartlett, both sides of the family being of Pilgrim descent and both this mother and this father, although not closely related, tracing their origins to the Robert Bartlett who had come over in the Anne in 1623. Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 6th day This morning Elizabeth Walker & Margaret Judge & their companions came in & took breakfast with us, of which we were glad, their company being very pleasant. After breakfast being joined by Wm Rickman & D Quimby, we fell into silence. Wm Rickman & Ruth Hallock in addition to a few words SPoken in the life by E Walker, delivered short testimonies. — After which they began to separate. Ruth went to Connanicut on her way homeward & Wm Rickman & D Quimby to Portsmouth, but before dinner Richard Halstead returned from Connanicut with the Carriage Wheels Sadly broken. & Ruth & Sarah went immediately on to Narragansett accompanied by Isaac P Hazard & his Mother. — This Yearly meeting has been a season of favor, & particularly so to us, as we have all been well, our buisness in the House all gone on Successfully, our company agreeable, but as to my own particular state of religious sensibility, I have not enjoyed so high a condition, as at times past or as at seasons when less cumbered, however there has been seasons in the course of it, when Israels Sheperd has been near, for which renew’d evidence of divine help I desire to be thankful. — RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS THE AGE OF REASON WAS A PIPE DREAM, OR AT BEST A PROJECT. ACTUALLY, HUMANS HAVE ALMOST NO CLUE WHAT THEY ARE DOING, WHILE CREDITING THEIR OWN LIES ABOUT WHY THEY ARE DOING IT. Robert Bartlett “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX ROBERT BARTLETT ROBERT BARTLETT 1826 Pietro Bachi found work in the United States as a teacher of Italian and Spanish at Harvard College, at a salary of $500 per year.
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