The Josiah Bartlett Chapter NSDAR is named in
honor of the ancestor of Organizing Regent
Margaretta Bartlett Casey (Mrs. Walter Thomas
Casey). Josiah Bartlett was born in Amesbury,
Massachusetts, on November 21, 1729. He worked as
a physician in Kingston, New Hampshire. In 1775,
he became commander of a militia during the
Revolutionary War. Bartlett took part in the
signing of the Declaration of Independence in
1776. He was a member of the Continental
Congress, serving on the committee that drafted
the Articles of Confederation, and later was a
delegate to the New Hampshire convention for the
adoption of the Constitution. He served as a
judge on the Court of Common Pleas, was Chief
Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, and
Governor of New Hampshire for four years. Josiah
Bartlett died on May 19, 1795, in his home at
Kingston, New Hampshire. He is buried in Plains
Cemetery, Kingston, New Hampshire.
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