Josiah Bartlett family papers
Contributors: Bartlett, Ezra, 1770-1848; Bartlett, Josiah, 1768-1838; Bartlett, Josiah, 1803-1853; Bartlett, Levi, 1763-1828
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10000
Subjects: Politics and government; Commerce; Republican Party (N.H.); Depressions; Indians of North America; Social life and customs; Whig Party (N.H.); Practice; Wars; Slavery; United States; Missouri compromise; Seminole Indians; Medicine; Economic conditions; Rural conditions; United States. Navy; Hospitals; History
Description: Correspondence, diaries, speeches, notebooks, legal and financial papers, genealogical material, printed matter, maps, photographs, and other papers reflecting the professional affairs of rural New England physicians and the daily activities and concerns of a rural New England family in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.  Topics include the War of 1812, national and New Hampshire state politics, Republican and Whig politics in New Hampshire, the Missouri Compromise, slavery, the Seminole War, the Panic of 1837, life in the U.S. Navy, military hospitals during the Civil War, and commerce in New England following the Civil War.  Includes an account by an American combatant of the British attack on Fort McHenry and Baltimore, Md., in 1814.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 15,109.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.

Gift and purchase, 1938-1993.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795) physician, jurist, and delegate to the U.S. Continental Congress from, and governor of, New Hampshire; his sons Levi (1763-1828) and Ezra (1770-1848), physicians and jurists, and Josiah (1768-1838), physician and member of Congress; Ezra's son Josiah (1803-1853), physician; and other family members.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.