Johann Joachim Bartram was born about 1715, in Hilwartshausen, Dassel, Northeim, Lower Saxony, Germany. He married Ilse Dorothea Rosina Kretzmann on 1 November 1740.
English (of Norman origin) and North German: variant of Bertram .
History: William Bartram, a Quaker, had a large farm near Darby, PA, when his eldest son, John, the first American botanist, was born in 1699. John conducted botanical experiments at his own farm in Kingsessing, PA, near Philadelphia.
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