Newfoundland was a self-governing British colony from 1855 until 1907. John Bartlett was the representative for Port de Grave in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly 1873-4 and 1882-6.
Capt. Bartlett spent several summers sailing north with Robert E. Peary. In 1895 John Bartlett commanded the Kite, the smallest of the Newfoundland fleet, as a relief ship for Robert E. Peary. For the next two summers, Bartlett captained the Hope to take Peary to the Arctic, and in 1898 he sailed the Windward and was iced in, not returning until the next season. That was the expedition in which Peary found Greely’s camp at Fort Conger as it had been left and in which Peary had to have several toes amputated due to frostbite. The last Peary expedition John Bartlett captained was in 1906 aboard the Roosevelt.
John’s brothers had all sailed for Peary: Samuel, William and the youngest, Henry, having been lost with the Falcon and all her crew after having dropped off Peary’s wife in Philadelphia, coaling and returning to Newfoundland. Now it was time for the next generation of Bartlett captains to assume the helm. John’s nephew, Robert Abram Bartlett, son of his brother William, who had been trained by John, would become the leading member of the family over the next few years.
Not long after his last voyage for Peary, John and his wife Louisa Emeline (Burchell) whom he had married in 1867, moved to southern Ontario or Quebec, probably to be closer to their children. In 1913 when they moved to the United States, John and Louisa had been living in Burlington, Ontario. One son, Ernest Burchell Bartlett, died in 1909 and was buried at the protestant cemetery, Mt. Hermon Cemetery in Quebec. In 1913, John and Louisa, their daughter Louisa B. Stewart, and grandson, John D. Stewart crossed the US/Canada border en route to Evanston, Illinois where Louisa’s husband, mining engineer Andrew Buchanan Stewart was working. At one time Andrew was assigned to find an abandoned Antimony mine in Newfoundland, and that is where he met Louisa. He operated a gold mine near Halifax, Nova Scotia and John Bartlett was an investor.
Following his wife Louisa’s death in Evanston in March 1926, John moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick where his son George was living. It was there John died on April 3, 1927 and he was buried beside Louisa and son Ernest at Mt. Hermon Cemetery, Quebec. Beside the three aforementioned children and three who died young, he and Louisa had two daughters: Emma Elizabeth who married Dr. John George Duncan and Susannah who married John Samuel Thistle.
Submitted by Ethelind Wright. Ethelind is a graduate student in the American and New England Studies program at the University of Southern Maine, and a genealogist.
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Capt. Bartlett spent several summers sailing north with Robert E. Peary. In 1895 John Bartlett commanded the Kite, the smallest of the Newfoundland fleet, as a relief ship for Robert E. Peary. For the next two summers, Bartlett captained the Hope to take Peary to the Arctic, and in 1898 he sailed the Windward and was iced in, not returning until the next season. That was the expedition in which Peary found Greely’s camp at Fort Conger as it had been left and in which Peary had to have several toes amputated due to frostbite. The last Peary expedition John Bartlett captained was in 1906 aboard the Roosevelt.
John’s brothers had all sailed for Peary: Samuel, William and the youngest, Henry, having been lost with the Falcon and all her crew after having dropped off Peary’s wife in Philadelphia, coaling and returning to Newfoundland. Now it was time for the next generation of Bartlett captains to assume the helm. John’s nephew, Robert Abram Bartlett, son of his brother William, who had been trained by John, would become the leading member of the family over the next few years.
Not long after his last voyage for Peary, John and his wife Louisa Emeline (Burchell) whom he had married in 1867, moved to southern Ontario or Quebec, probably to be closer to their children. In 1913 when they moved to the United States, John and Louisa had been living in Burlington, Ontario. One son, Ernest Burchell Bartlett, died in 1909 and was buried at the protestant cemetery, Mt. Hermon Cemetery in Quebec. In 1913, John and Louisa, their daughter Louisa B. Stewart, and grandson, John D. Stewart crossed the US/Canada border en route to Evanston, Illinois where Louisa’s husband, mining engineer Andrew Buchanan Stewart was working. At one time Andrew was assigned to find an abandoned Antimony mine in Newfoundland, and that is where he met Louisa. He operated a gold mine near Halifax, Nova Scotia and John Bartlett was an investor.
Following his wife Louisa’s death in Evanston in March 1926, John moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick where his son George was living. It was there John died on April 3, 1927 and he was buried beside Louisa and son Ernest at Mt. Hermon Cemetery, Quebec. Beside the three aforementioned children and three who died young, he and Louisa had two daughters: Emma Elizabeth who married Dr. John George Duncan and Susannah who married John Samuel Thistle.
Submitted by Ethelind Wright. Ethelind is a graduate student in the American and New England Studies program at the University of Southern Maine, and a genealogist.
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Newfoundland was a self-governing British colony from 1855 until 1907. John Bartlett was the representative for Port de Grave in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly 1873-4 and 1882-6.
Capt. Bartlett spent several summers sailing north with Robert E. Peary. In 1895 John Bartlett commanded the Kite, the smallest of the Newfoundland fleet, as a relief ship for Robert E. Peary. For the next two summers, Bartlett captained the Hope to take Peary to the Arctic, and in 1898 he sailed the Windward and was iced in, not returning until the next season. That was the expedition in which Peary found Greely’s camp at Fort Conger as it had been left and in which Peary had to have several toes amputated due to frostbite. The last Peary expedition John Bartlett captained was in 1906 aboard the Roosevelt.
John’s brothers had all sailed for Peary: Samuel, William and the youngest, Henry, having been lost with the Falcon and all her crew after having dropped off Peary’s wife in Philadelphia, coaling and returning to Newfoundland. Now it was time for the next generation of Bartlett captains to assume the helm. John’s nephew, Robert Abram Bartlett, son of his brother William, who had been trained by John, would become the leading member of the family over the next few years.
Not long after his last voyage for Peary, John and his wife Louisa Emeline (Burchell) whom he had married in 1867, moved to southern Ontario or Quebec, probably to be closer to their children. In 1913 when they moved to the United States, John and Louisa had been living in Burlington, Ontario. One son, Ernest Burchell Bartlett, died in 1909 and was buried at the protestant cemetery, Mt. Hermon Cemetery in Quebec. In 1913, John and Louisa, their daughter Louisa B. Stewart, and grandson, John D. Stewart crossed the US/Canada border en route to Evanston, Illinois where Louisa’s husband, mining engineer Andrew Buchanan Stewart was working. At one time Andrew was assigned to find an abandoned Antimony mine in Newfoundland, and that is where he met Louisa. He operated a gold mine near Halifax, Nova Scotia and John Bartlett was an investor.
Following his wife Louisa’s death in Evanston in March 1926, John moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick where his son George was living. It was there John died on April 3, 1927 and he was buried beside Louisa and son Ernest at Mt. Hermon Cemetery, Quebec. Beside the three aforementioned children and three who died young, he and Louisa had two daughters: Emma Elizabeth who married Dr. John George Duncan and Susannah who married John Samuel Thistle.
Submitted by Ethelind Wright. Ethelind is a graduate student in the American and New England Studies program at the University of Southern Maine, and a genealogist.
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Capt. Bartlett spent several summers sailing north with Robert E. Peary. In 1895 John Bartlett commanded the Kite, the smallest of the Newfoundland fleet, as a relief ship for Robert E. Peary. For the next two summers, Bartlett captained the Hope to take Peary to the Arctic, and in 1898 he sailed the Windward and was iced in, not returning until the next season. That was the expedition in which Peary found Greely’s camp at Fort Conger as it had been left and in which Peary had to have several toes amputated due to frostbite. The last Peary expedition John Bartlett captained was in 1906 aboard the Roosevelt.
John’s brothers had all sailed for Peary: Samuel, William and the youngest, Henry, having been lost with the Falcon and all her crew after having dropped off Peary’s wife in Philadelphia, coaling and returning to Newfoundland. Now it was time for the next generation of Bartlett captains to assume the helm. John’s nephew, Robert Abram Bartlett, son of his brother William, who had been trained by John, would become the leading member of the family over the next few years.
Not long after his last voyage for Peary, John and his wife Louisa Emeline (Burchell) whom he had married in 1867, moved to southern Ontario or Quebec, probably to be closer to their children. In 1913 when they moved to the United States, John and Louisa had been living in Burlington, Ontario. One son, Ernest Burchell Bartlett, died in 1909 and was buried at the protestant cemetery, Mt. Hermon Cemetery in Quebec. In 1913, John and Louisa, their daughter Louisa B. Stewart, and grandson, John D. Stewart crossed the US/Canada border en route to Evanston, Illinois where Louisa’s husband, mining engineer Andrew Buchanan Stewart was working. At one time Andrew was assigned to find an abandoned Antimony mine in Newfoundland, and that is where he met Louisa. He operated a gold mine near Halifax, Nova Scotia and John Bartlett was an investor.
Following his wife Louisa’s death in Evanston in March 1926, John moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick where his son George was living. It was there John died on April 3, 1927 and he was buried beside Louisa and son Ernest at Mt. Hermon Cemetery, Quebec. Beside the three aforementioned children and three who died young, he and Louisa had two daughters: Emma Elizabeth who married Dr. John George Duncan and Susannah who married John Samuel Thistle.
Submitted by Ethelind Wright. Ethelind is a graduate student in the American and New England Studies program at the University of Southern Maine, and a genealogist.
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