Family
His parentage unproven, Gamaliel Bartlett is believed to have been born in Massachusetts and married (October 20, 1818, at New Lebanon, New York) at the age of 21 to Mary A. Parmelee who was born about 1790 in Massachusetts. Three of their five children died young, viz., Samuel (April 24, 1824 - May 6, 1825), Emma (April 7, 1826-May 9, 1826), and Laura Mariah (August 16, 1834-December 23, 1834). These three children were born and died at Sussex County in Stanhope.
The first of their two children who lived to maturity was Jane Mariah who was born at Monroe, New York (formerly known as Monroe Works) in the county of Orange, on December 4, 1819. She married (October 20, 1840 at Succasunna, Morris, New Jersey) William A. Jackson (1817-1895) and she died on February 15, 1865 at the Centerville Section of Livingston Township, Essex, New Jersey. This couple had one child, Laura Maria (1843-1916) who married (April 30, 1862 at Centerville (now Roseland), Livingston, Essex, New Jersey) William H. Griffith (1839-1901). There were no offspring.
The second surviving child was Henry Clay who was born at Stanhope, Sussex, New Jersey, on April 13, 1830. He first married (at Hudson, New York, on February 11, 1852) Mary Spencer Parkman who was born at Spencertown, Hudson, Columbia, New York, on March 15, 1825. Less than two years after their marriage, his wife died, childless, on January 15, 1854, at the place where they married. His second wife, with whom he had four children, was Mary Eliza Russell (married at New York City, New York, on February 28, 1854) who was born about 1838 at Brooklyn, New York City, New York, and died there as a widow on September 23, 1869.
Henry Clay graduated from Princeton University with a law degree in 1847. A captain in Company "G" of the Thirty-third regiment of the New Jersey Volunteers, he was fatally wounded as he led his men at the Battle of Dug Gap near Dalton, Georgia. He died on May 8, 1864, despite the ministrations of the Freylack family who attended to him at their farm at the foot of the mountain. Captain Henry Clay Bartlett was buried in an unmarked grave on their property.
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