Gershom was a farmer, a land speculator and a stone carver like his father and probably other brothers and relatives. There is a thirty two page article in Markers I on his father's carvings. They refer to him as the "Hook and Eye Man" based on his use of a design for facial features similar to the old fashion garment fastener. "His stones can be found in Hartford, Farmington, Wethersfield, Wethersfield, west of the Connecticut River, but nine out of ten are located east of the river. His stones occur frequently in towns along the Mass border, as in Enfield, Somers and the Woodstocks, and they are also found in Pomfret, Brooklyn, and Plainfield near the Rhode Island border. Although he placed an occassional stone in New London, Old Lyme, and even in New York City, most appear north of the Glastonbury-Colchester-Norwich pike." A list of persons for whom Bartlet made gravestones during his Bolton period would make a good "Who was Who in Colonial Connecticut. For examples, there were the Reverend Samuel Tudor of East Windsor, the Reverend Thomas White of Bolton, the Reverend Nathaniel Huntington of Ellington, and the Reverend Emhraim Avery of Brooklyn. Also Colonel John Whiting of West Hartford, Capt. Joseph Hooker of Farmington, Captain Marsh of Norwich, Dr. Thomas Mather of Farmington, Dr. John Wells of Wethersfield, and Dr. Jonathan Bull of Hartford. Mrs. Esther Edwards (mother of Jonathan Edwards) of East Windsor, Thomas Welles, Esquire of Glastonbury, Colonel Israel Putnam's sons of Brooklyn, Benoni Trumbull of Gilead, and David Luce of Scotland with to Norwich, Eleazer Wheelock is the founder of Dartmouth College and a friend of Nathaniel Whitaker, the Sons of Jonathan Whitaker, another relative. The stones Gershom used for the most part were gray schists from the Bartlett quarries in Bolton, CT, were he was born. He moved to Windsor about 1748 and removed to Norwich, VT about 1771. There he started using black soapstone and Vermont Marble. ** If you would like to see some of the examples of Gershom's works.. You can see them in the following Cementaries: New London Ancient Burial Ground, Mansfield Center Cementary, Mansfield East Cementary, Eastbury Cementary (Glasbury, Hartford Conn, and Waterman Hill cementary in Norwich, Windsor, VT *****