What is Enoch Bartlett?
'''Enoch Bartlett''' (1779–1860) was a farmer from [[Dorchester, Masschusetts|Dorchester]], [[Massachusetts]]. He bought Thomas Brewer's farm in [[Roxbury, Massachusetts|Roxbury]]. This farm had a field of pear trees, which he named after himself, as he did not know the fruit already had a name. In 1828 a new batch of pear trees arrived from England, and it was realised that the [[Bartlett pear]] was the same as the [[Williams pear]], but by this time the name had stuck, and is still the commonest name for this type of pear in Canada and the United States. {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bartlett, Enoch}} [[Category:1779 births]] [[Category:1860 deaths]] [[Category:People with foods named after them]]