Job Bartram | |
Office: | Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk |
Term Start: | May 1790 |
Term End: | May 1791[1] |
Predecessor: | Samuel Cook Silliman, Thomas Belden |
Alongside: | Eliphalet Lockwood |
Successor: | Samuel Cook Silliman Eliphalet Lockwood |
Birth Date: | 20 March 1735 |
Birth Place: | Fairfield, Connecticut Colony |
Death Place: | Black Rock Harbor, Connecticut, US |
Spouse: | Jerusha Thompson (m. November 18, 1762; d. November 23, 1773), Abigail Starr (m. November 7, 1774), Elizabeth Scudder (m. August 27, 1776) |
Rank: | Captain |
Battles: | American Revolutionary War Burning of Fairfield |
Branch: | Connecticut Militia |
Unit: | Fifth Regiment |
Job Bartram (March 20, 1735 – October 28, 1817) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk in the sessions of May and October 1790. He served as a captain of the Connecticut Militia in the American Revolutionary War.
Bartram was born in Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, on March 20, 1735. He married Jerusha Thompson on November 18, 1762. She died on November 23, 1773. Bartram next married Abigail Starr on November 7, 1774. They had one son Daniel Starr Bartram, born 1775. He next married Elizabeth Scudder on August 27, 1776.
Bartram was in command of a company in Connecticut's Fifth Regiment under Colonel Samuel Whiting in 1777. He was wounded in Fairfield, in 1779.
Job Bartram was drowned along with Stephen Morehouse off Black Rock Harbor, adjacent to Bridgeport.