Abraham Bartholomew (1708 - 1798)

Born 28 Jun 1708 in Branford, New Haven, Colony of Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Page) Bartholomew — married 18 Jun 1730 in Connecticut

Descendants

Died 9 Apr 1798 at age 89 in Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

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Biography

Father Isaac Bartholomew

Mother Rebecah Frisbie

Abraham was born in Branford, 28 June, 1708; married, first, in B., 18 June, 1730, Hannah daughter of Daniel Page (and wife Hannah Johnson) and granddaughter of George Page (and wife Sarah Linsley). The latter was born in England but settled in Branford before 1663.

Hannah Johnson was daughter of Nathaniel Johnson, merchant of Branford, and granddaughter of Capt. Isaac Johnson of Roxbury.

Sarah Linsley's father, John Linsley, emigrated from Sussex Co., England, in 1639, with his brother Francis and the Non-conformists, of which Rev. Henry Whitfield was the leader, settling in Guilford.

Mrs. Hannah Bartholomew died before 25 Oct 1770, when a wife Deborah joins him in a conveyance of land.

After his death widow Deborah Bartholomew married 9 Apr 1778, at Farmington, Ichabod Stark.

Mr. Bartholomew was an extensive farmer in Branford where he remained until he was forty-six years of age, and his children were all born.

He was made freeman there, 29 Apr 1740, but had been elected to several positions of trust before that event.

In 1754 he made several large purchases of land in Farmington, Connecticut, the consideration in one of them with improvements being £3000. These improvements, which he moved into before May 23 of that year, were situated about one mile east of what is now called Burlington Centre, where an old cellar still remains to mark his first abode in that section.

Later he moved several miles south to the house long known as "Bar-tle-my Tavern" which was situated on the east side of the present road from Bristol to Burlington Center, on the brow of the hill just south of the line which now separates the two towns; the said two towns being then the parish of New Cambridge in the town of Farmington.

This house has also disappeared and nothing now marks the place but the old well, cherry trees and an ancient but scrubby oak tree on the opposite side of the roadway. It was the home of several generations of large families and many descendants still live within a mile or two of it.

There he kept the first tavern in that section, including a frontier stock of merchandise. There the first town elections of Bristol (which then included Burlington) were held, his son Jacob being the town's first treasurer and collector.

The ancient oak mentioned was looked upon as extremely old one hundred year ago, when Asa Bartholomew, then a boy of six, was permitted to pull the trigger and shoot a bullet into it from one of his elder brothers' muskets which had been loaded in a fight with the British at New London; when nearly ninety years of age he told the write that the tree had apparently grown young in the interim.

Abraham Bartholomew was a large land owner and wielded a strong local influence.

A red sandstone slab in the old North Cemetery in Bristol is inscribed to his memory."^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ George Wells Bartholomew, Jr., Record of the Bartholomew Family. Historical, Genealogical and Biographical (Austin, Tex.: published by the author, 1885), 80-82.

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 17 FEB 2018), "Record of BARTHOLOMEW, ABRAHAM SR", Ancestor # A006885. MUST PROVE SERVICE

• Birth Record

Braham Bartholomew [Abraham Bartholomew] Gender: Male Birth Date: 28 Jun 1708 Birth Place: Branford Parent: Isaac Parent: Rebecah [Rebeccah] Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.

• Millenium File

Name: Abraham Bartholomew Gender: Male Birth Date: 28 Jun 1708 Birth Place: Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Marriage Date: 18 Jun 1730 Children: Abraham Bartholomew Source Information Heritage Consulting. Millennium File

• FindAGrave

• The Bartholomew Family, by George Wells Bartholomew, published 1885)

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