164:, directly across from the "Heritage House" senior center- near the site of the original Congregational Church, which burned down on May 4, 1942. After the deaths of Nathaniel and Eunice in 1810, the house was inherited by their youngest son, the Rev. Jonathan Bartlett, the only son who remained in Connecticut. (Russell Bartlett was living in Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, and Daniel Collins Bartlett was living in Amenia, Dutchess County, New York at the time of their parents’ deaths). Upon his death in 1858, the Rev. Jonathan Bartlett who died childless, in turn passed the house down to his nephew by marriage and second cousin on the maternal side, Lemuel Sanford IV. The Bartlett / Sanford House remained in the Sanford family until finally being sold out of the family on May 21, 1969.
66:, and soon after he was licensed to preach, the Hartford South Association recommended him to the Kensington Society – the Congregational Church in Farmington, Connecticut – as a pastoral candidate. The church at Farmington declined to offer him the pastorate, but from January to April of 1753, he preached on a trial basis at the Congregational Church of Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut, to allow the congregation to evaluate his suitability for a position there. Between 1750 and 1753, the Redding church had taken four preachers under consideration as pastoral candidates. The first three were rejected, and they finally settled on Bartlett, being favorably disposed to his installation as their minister.
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Russell Jr., was pastor at the Congregational Church of North Guilford during the time Bartlett was growing up there. Her first cousin, Thomas Russell, was born the same year as Bartlett and also graduated from Yale in the Class of 1749. It is assumed therefore, that Nathaniel and Eunice became acquainted through the intermediary of these close relatives of hers in North Guilford. To the union of Nathaniel and Eunice (Russell) Bartlett, were born six known children: Russell b 1754, Daniel Collins b 1757, Anne b 1759, Eunice b 1761, Jonathan b 1764, and Lucretia b 1768, all born in Redding.
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continuing support from the pulpit. The "Redding
Loyalist Association" published a list of resolutions in support of the British Government, a document which was signed by 141 male residents (some of whom were minors), of whom 73 were from Redding, with the rest being from outlying areas. With the village of Redding being thus split along political and religious denominational lines, there must have been considerable animosity between neighbors in so small a community, and no doubt many families experienced divided loyalties as well. The Bartlett family, however, was firmly united in support of the American cause.
184:". While attending the village school which Bartlett taught in Redding, Joel Barlow composed poetry in his free time. Recognizing his talent, Bartlett showed the boy's poems to Joel's father, recommending that a youth with such promise should be prepared for college. Joel's father agreed, and Joel was tutored by Bartlett 1772–1773. Joel Barlow went on to write numerous poems, which were famous in their day. Joel went to France during the French Revolution, and died during Napoleon's disastrous retreat from Russia while serving with the French Army as a special envoy from President James Madison.
79:, who served at Franklin, Connecticut 1782–1852, an unbelievable 70 years). Bartlett succeeded the first minister at Redding, Rev. Nathaniel Hunn – and was in turn succeeded by the Rev. Daniel Crocker. Bartlett's youngest son, Rev. Jonathan Bartlett (1764–1858) served as co-pastor with his father for a few years, but resigned due to ill health prior to his father's death. The Rev. Daniel Crocker likewise served as co-pastor for a few months, following Bartlett's March 22, 1809 petition to the church board, that he be released from active service due to old age and infirmity.
139:, Capt. Noble Benedict's Company, and Daniel Collins Bartlett (1757–1837) who enlisted in Redding, Connecticut in the 10th Company of the 5th Regiment of the Connecticut Line, Capt. Zalmon Read's Company. One anecdote told about Bartlett, was that on a Sunday morning at the outbreak of the Revolution, he brought his own sword, newly ground, and presented it to his second son Daniel Collins Bartlett, instructing him to go and defend his country.
196:, on January 11, 1810. His widow survived him by only a few months, passing away on August 2 of that same year. Bartlett was said to be a fine scholar and an eloquent preacher, who tended to the spiritual and temporal needs of his flock until very near the end of his long productive life. Upon his death, an inventory of his estate revealed assets of around $ 5,000.00 in value, including a small library of some 24 volumes and 85 pamphlets.
160:, it is still in use today as a single family residence. (The original land holding is intact as well, as the Internet currently shows the property lot size as 21.59 acres). In its external appearance, it remains virtually unchanged from how it must originally have looked, except for a wing added on to the east in 1847, and a patio out back. It is located on 10 Cross Highway, just off Route # 107 in
75:(David) Judson of Newtown gave the right hand of fellowship – the Rev. Mr. (Jonathan) Ingersoll of Ridgefield gave the closing prayer". Bartlett served at Redding for the next 57 years – i.e. until near his death in 1810 – thought to be the longest continuous pastorate in the history of the early New England churches up to that time. (The record was eventually lost, however, to the Rev.
108:(loyalists) who were numerous in western Connecticut threatened to hang him if they could catch him. Due to these frequent and credible threats to his life, Bartlett was obligated to make his parochial rounds with a loaded musket in hand, as well as his Bible. He allowed war provisions to be stored in his home, including gunpowder in a bin which he constructed in the
336:. The petition states '"Being through the infirmities of old age unable to discharge any longer the duties of the Gospel Ministry, I feel disposed to be no longer burdensome to the Society for my maintenance, and I do therefore agree to relinquish to s'd Soc'y from and after the first day of April next my salary, which they stipulated to pay me."
365:, p. 389. Ministers usually delivered patriotic addresses on fast days and anniversaries of events of the conflict, such as the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington. Although they naturally adapted their remarks to the particular occasion, they always laid stress on two themes- divine guidance and the depravity of the enemy.
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Also in the busy year 1753, Nathaniel and Eunice began construction of a New
England salt-box style house in Redding, on 20 acres of land donated by the church as part of the settlement arrangements for his pastorate, being a common practice of the era. Per the Redding Church Records, the property
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with their rector the Rev. John Beach were generally loyalists while the
Congregationalists with their pastor Bartlett were generally rebels. Those of the Tory persuasion were sufficient in numbers to form themselves into the "Redding Loyalist Association", to which the Rev. John Beach lent his
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