(NEW HAMPSHIRE) Archive of Ezra Bartletts correspondence and

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(NEW HAMPSHIRE.) Archive of Ezra Bartlett's correspondence and other papers. 66 documents in one box: 20 letters to and from Bartlett, several touching upon state politics, 1804-45; 8 commissions issued to Bartlett for various offices, 1801-39; and 38 other family receipts and documents, 1770 and 1796-1842; condition generally strong. Vp, 1794-1845

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Ezra Bartlett (1770-1848) of Haverhill, NH was a physician who also served as justice of the peace, judge, tax collector, and two-time presidential elector in a long career of public service. He was also the son of Declaration of Independence signer Josiah Bartlett. This collection includes the manuscript minutes of the New Hampshire presidential electors in the 1820 election, casting seven votes for James Monroe and a lone protest vote for non-candidate John Quincy Adams (the only vote cast against Monroe nationally), Concord, NH, 5 December 1820. Other highlights include a printed circular letter from Bartlett's 1804 Congressional campaign; and an 1841 letter from former Governor John Bell requesting an autograph and brief biography of Josiah Bartlett (with Ezra's draft response on a blank leaf). The collection includes commissions and short letters signed by nine different New Hampshire governors.