When Abraham Bartlett was born in 1776, in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Timothy Bartlett Jr., was 46 and his mother, Lucy Evarts, was 41. He married Thankful Bushnell in 1798, in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 18 January 1863, in Paris, Oneida, New York, United States, at the age of 87.