Bartholomew Gedney was baptized on June 14, 1640. Bartholomew was a ship carpenter, judge of probate, member of the court of assistants and commander-in-chief of the military forces in the county of Essex. He was listed as a physician in 1662. Bartholomew was a freeman in 1669, representative in 1678, Assistant in 1680-1683 and made Andro's Council by James II. Yet he continuted in the new charter one of the judges of the witchcraft delusion. He was a judge of the probate and the colony.

He married December 22, 1662, to Hannah Clarke.

To this union only one known child was born: 1. Lydia, born April 17, 1670

Hannah died on January 6, 1695/6. After this time Bartholomew married a second time to Ann (???) Stewart, the widow of William Stewart.

Bartholomew Gedney died February 28, 1697/8.

Reference:
Genealogy Dictionary of New England - Savage
Hixson Trails - Margaret Madara Free

Gedney Tomb