Hi, I have some great news .. I was doing some summer cleaning house, and I can across a very old folder of information labeled "Library of Congress" Summer of 1940, 42, 48, 53, & 60.. In it is a very old and britle manuscript on Robert Bartlett of the Lion start by a distant relative of mine Lester Bartlett, some of the other items are old papers handwritten and/or what looks like copies from books from the Library of Congress.. One of the papers is from the History of Newburyport, Mass. By a Betsy Longworth Trumbell .. The interesting item it is this and I quote: Josiah Bartlett, signer of the Declaration of Independence was a descendant of the Richard Bartlett of Newburyport, MA. and the Landlord of the "WAYSIDE INN" by the initials of J. P. Bartlett who is represented by Longfellow as the one who first told of the midnight ride of Paul Revere was a Newburyport, Bartlett. She then talkes about Christopher and a Charles of Newburyport, MA and gives names and dates of people and places.. She mentions that this Charles of Newburyport, MA is a relative of the Robert Bartlett who came over on ship Lion. Betsy lists the source of information as a Noah Bartlett of the Charles line as having a very old bible that puts the two families together and then traces Charles family to America and a picks up Robert and his family and list his coming over from England.. Both my Grandfather and Great Uncle Lester came across each other and Lester gave Erlin a copy of his manuscript and what he had already collected.. It seems from what I've been reading much of Lesters information came from traveling the same route as Robert's descendants.. Lester started in the 1939, spending three weeks in and around Northampton, Easthampton, Westhampton, and Southampton, Newburyport, & Boston, Ma.. he then when to Ohio to trace that part of the Bartlett family, then on to New York to trace that part of the Bartlett family When Lester was in MASS, he talks about coming across alot of different Bartlett's and in order to disguish which Bartlett was which.. He just kept collecting information and then he would take it back home and try and put the pieces together.. Lester was a School Teacher and he would get his pupils interested in the History of America by looking into thier own families and learning where they came from and what their ancestors did.. Lester writes down what he found in the Bible and how he went about finding the information.. He mentions a Charles Bartlett & his father father was Robert's father's father's brother... Lester took the information that Betsy had in her book, and proceed to trace the Noah's family to see who had the Bible.. He found a Louisa Bartlett of Southampton, MA.. Charles father was a Samuel, and his father was a Charles.. While Robert's father was William and his father was William brother of Charles from Brighton, England.. Lester proceeds from there to tell about this Louisa and her family and then goes on to talk about Robert and his descendants.. Ruth