William Bartholomew (1603 - 1680)

Born 1603 in Burford, Oxfordshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 18 Jan 1680 at about age 77 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

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William Bartholomew migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 1, p. 180) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

William Bartholomew was born in about 1603 in Burford, Oxfordshire, England, the son of William Bartholomew and Friswide Metcalfe.^[1]

William married Anna ____.^[1] Anderson says by 1653 and earlier if she was the wife of all his children, and cites the Suffolk Deeds 5:226-228. This deed, however between William and Joseph Bartholomew is dated 13 July 1667. A deed in 1653 (1:330) does not mention Ann.

• Disputed wife: Ann is sometimes called the sister of Robert Lord, but there is no evidence that Robert had a sister Ann.
• ? The Planters of the Commonwealth calls her Mrs. Mary Bartholomew,^[2] but there is no known record that supports a given name Mary. Anderson makes no mention of Mary.

William migrated to Boston, Massachusetts aboard the Ship "Griffin", arriving at Boston, September 18, 1634 with about one hundred passengers and livestock. Charles Banks in his synthesized list of passenger ships Planters of the Commonwealth lists William Bartholomew and Mrs. Mary Bartholomew as passengers on the Griffin.^[2] There is no actual list of passengers aboard the Griffin. Winthrop's Journal tells when the Griffin landed and that on it were Mr. Lothrop and Mr. Simmes, ministers.^[3] Also known to be on board was Ann Hutchinson. William and Ann Hutchinson were acquainted and he testified at her examination at the court in Newtown in Nov. 1637, showing that he was onboard the Griffin also.

"I would remember one word to Mrs. Hutchinson among many others. She knowing that I did know her opinions, being she was at my house at London, she was afraid I conceive of loth to impart herself unto me, but when she came within sight of Boston and looking upon the meanness of the place, I conceive, she uttered these words, if she had not a sure word that England should be destroyed her heart would shake. Now it seemed to me at that time very strange that she should do so." Bartholomew also mentioned "Only I remember her eldest daughter said in the ship that she had a revelation that a young man in the ship should be saved, but he must walk in the ways of her mother."^[4][1] There is no reference to his wife, and she may have been with him, but Banks didn't reveal his source for her name Mary and otherwise no Mary has been found.

"Mr. William Bartholomew, late of Boston, now sojourning with Mr. Greene in Charlstowne, d. Jan. 18,1680." ^{[5] [6]} Anderson's Great Migration sketch states this is 1680/81.^[1]

William Barthol/o/mew Memorial Marker

William was interred in Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.^[7]

Children of William Bartholomew:^[1]

1. Mary was born about 1637. She married Matthew Whipple at Gloucester on December 24, 1657. Married (2nd) by 1661 to Jacob Green.
2. Joseph was born about 1638; was deposed aged 24 years on June 23, 1662. He was of London on May 26, 1693.
3. child was born by 1645.
4. child was born about November 1658.

Research Notes

• There is more material in the Great Migration Sketch by Robert Charles Anderson.
• There is also biographical material in Record of the Bartholomew family : historical, genealogical and biographical by Bartholomew, George Wells, published 1885, which is not included in Anderson's work.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Great Migration 1634-1635, A-B. "William Bartholomew." (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume 1, A-B, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. link for subscribers
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Banks, Charles Edward. The planters of the commonwealth; a study of the emigrants and emigration in colonial times: to which are added lists of passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the ships which brought them; their English homes, and the places of their settlement in Massachusetts. 1620-1640 (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1930)
3. ↑ Winthrop, John. Winthrop's journal : "History of New England", 1630-1649 (New York : Scribner, 1908) p. 134
4. ↑ Hutchinson, Thomas. The History of the Province of Massachusets-Bay (Boston ; New-England : Printed by Thomas & John Fleet at the Heart and crown in Cornhill, 1828) pp 509, 510 note there are other versions of this book, this is available online
5. ↑ Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, Volume 1. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984. p. 65
6. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC9N-23T : 18 March 2020), Willm. Bartholmew, 1680.
7. ↑ GPS (lat/lon): 42.37635, -71.06798 :: Note: where the inscription reads, "William Bartholmew agd 78 yrs decd Janry18th 1680" Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 08 November 2019), memorial page for William Bartholomew (1602–18 Jan 1680), Find A Grave: Memorial #15157654, citing Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by With Love, Gen Gal (contributor 46817660) .

See also:

• Death - "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch : 13 July 2016, William Bartholomew, 18 Jan 1680; citing Death, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 740,995.

• Publications - "A Corner in Ancestors - Bartholomew Family," Bryan Daily Eagle (Bryan, Texas), November 4, 1910. Author: Eleanor Lexington. Colomn 7, Page 3. McClure Syndication. (broken link: search.findmypast.com/search/us-and-world-newspapers/page/view/244497258)

• Record of the Bartholomew Family. Author: Bartholomew, George Wells Publication: the author, Austin, Texas, 1885. 16-22 27-43

• Hibbard, Augustine George. History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co, Hartford, Connecticut, 1897) Page 413-14