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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bartlett , Josiah , 1729 - (search)
Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-
A signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Amesbury, Mass., Nov. 21, 1729; educated in a common school and taught the science of medicine by a practitioner in his native town, he began practice in Kingston, N. H., in 1750, and soon became eminent.
He was a member of the New Hampshire legislature from 1705 until the breaking out of the War of the Revolution.
In 1770 he was appointed by the royal governor lieutenant-colonel of the militia, but on account of his patriotic tendencies he was deprived of the office in 1775.
He was a member of the committee of safety, upon whom for a time devolved the whole executive power of the of government of the State.
A delegate to Congress in 1775-76, he was the first to give his vote for the Declaration of Independence, and its first signer after the President of Congress.
He was with Stark in the Bennington campaign (see Bennington, battle of), in 1777.
as agent of the State to provide medicine and other
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whittier , John Greenleaf 1807 -1892 (search)