Curt, Josiah Bartlett was a famous New Hampshirite who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a distinguished physician, founder of the State Medical Society, a Colonel of Militia, Chief Justice of the Court, and first governor of the State of New Hampshire. He lived most of his life in Kingston, NH, where his house and a granite monument are prominent on the town green. What a coincidence! There is a Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy in New Hampshire, a "think tank" operation, and I often speak at their conferences. As a further coincidence, their most recent Executive Director (she left very recently) was Elizabeth Beeson. And she is, I believe, a descendant of the Chester County Beeson's whose family interleaves with the Chester County Duttons. Doug Hall -----Original Message----- From: Curt Rowe <curtrowe@ix.netcom.com> To: DUTTON-L@rootsweb.com <DUTTON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 8:53 PM Subject: Descendent of Josiah Bartlett >I was going through some old family documents when I found the following: > >C. [Craig] S. Dutton one of the sons of Kingman [b 1759 d 1837], settled in >nearby Olive Township, Meigs Count, [Ohio] when it, of course, was a part of >Athens County. C. S. Dutton, who was born at Hockingport in 1823, married >Martha Waterman, a granddaughter of Dr. Waterman, a surgeon in the >Revolutionary War. The wife of Dr. Waterman, was a daughter of Josiah >Bartlett, a Massachusetts native who was the first member of the Continental >Congress to vote for the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the >first member of Congress to sign the Declaration [I thought it was John >Hamilton]. > >A footnote says its from a newspaper article dated 7/18/50. >