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Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
Although portions of the papers of the Josiah Bartlett family were acquired from multiple sources from 1938 to 1993, the bulk of the material was received by purchase in 1938 and by gift from Mrs. Mack W. Schwab in 1958. An addition was purchased in 1993.
The papers of the Bartlett family were arranged and described in 1970. Material received in 1993 was processed as an addition in 2001.
A map of the National Road from Washington, D.C. , to Buffalo, N.Y., has been transferred to the Library's Geography and Map Division where it is identified as part of these papers.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of the Bartlett family is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of the Josiah Bartlett family are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
A microfilm edition of part of these papers is available on seventeen reels. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition as available.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Josiah Bartlett Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of the Bartlett family represent five generations of the family from 1710 to1931, with the bulk of the material concentrated between 1800 and 1890.
The papers consists of correspondence , diaries, notebooks , legal papers , diplomas, financial papers , account books, drafts of speeches , bills of lading, school compositions, genealogical material, photographs, maps, printed matter, biographies, obituaries, scattered individual issues of newspapers, and miscellaneous items.
The collection describes in detail the professional and political careers of Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795), signer of the Declaration of Independence and governor of New Hampshire, and his sons, Levi Bartlett (1763-1828) and Ezra Bartlett (1770-1848), both physicians and jurists, and Josiah Bartlett (1768-1838), physician, member of Congress, and president of the New Hampshire State Senate, as well as the papers of Ezra's son, Josiah Bartlett, (1803-1853), also a physician, and other descendants.
The papers primarily reflect the professional affairs of rural physicians and the daily activities and concerns of a large New England family in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Specific topics in the early correspondence include activities in Congress prior to the declaration of war on Great Britain in 1812, sentiment in New Hampshire favoring the war, and an account by an American combatant of the repelling of the British attack on Fort McHenry and Baltimore in 1814.
Later correspondence concerns the Missouri Compromise, Republican and Whig politics in New Hampshire, antislavery sentiment, the Seminole War, the Panic of 1837, life in the United States Navy, activities in military hospitals during the Civil War, and business developments in New England after the war.
The collection is arranged in seven series:
Diaries and notebooks.
Arranged chronologically.
Letters sent and received.
Arranged chronologically.
Indentures, deeds, contracts, court orders, depositions, case books, wills, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged by type of material and chronologically therein.
Bills and receipts, court payrolls, county receipts, and account books.
Arranged by type of material and chronologically therein.
Draft speeches by Josiah Bartlett (1768-1838), Josiah Bartlett (1803-1853), and Amos G. Draper.
Arranged by type of material or author.
Biographies, obituaries, genealogical material, printed matter, photographs, compositions, newspapers, newspaper clipppings, and pamphlets.
Arranged by type of material.
Letter from John Taylor Gilman to Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795).