(1729–95), U.S. signer of the Declaration of Independence. Josiah Bartlett was born in Amesbury, Mass. He became a physician and settled at Kingston, N.H. He served as member of the colony's Provincial Assembly from 1765 to 1775 and was elected to the Continental Congress. He was also a member of New Hampshire's Committee of Correspondence. Bartlett cast the first vote for the proposed Articles of Confederation. He later served as chief justice of the New Hampshire court of common pleas from 1779 to 1782 and as associate and later chief justice of the state's supreme court from 1782 to 1790. Bartlett was the first governor of the state and first president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. (See also Declaration of Independence.)