Rev. John Bartow

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JOHN BARTOW,^ A. M., the first of the family in this country, was boi'n at Crediton, Dev- onshire, England, A. D. 1673 ;^ was son of Doctor Thonaas Bartow, of that place. At an early age he was instructed by one Mr. Gregory, entered Christ College, Cambridge,^ Jan. 31, 1689, where he was admitted a sizar under Mr. Lovett, and graduated in 1692. Entering the ministry, he became Curate of Pampisford, in Cambridgeshire, in 1694, to which church he was inducted Vicar, May 28, 1697. An original sermon preached at this place in 1700, on S. Luke ii. 13, 14, is in my possession. Pampisford lies about seven miles nearly south of Cam- bridge, and in 1801 contained 35 houses, 46 families, and 202 persons. Through the kindness of the vicar,

1) Bolton's W. Co., pasxiw ; N. Y. Gen. Rec. Jan. 1873: Bolton's W. Oh. p. 10 et passhn ; Guide to New Rochelle, 47. .54. CI : Norton's Provoost. 87-02 : Doc. Ilist. N. Y., iii. 115, 119. ISC. u>11. -213. 2:W. !»as, 945; Hawkins" Hist. Notices: Humphrey's Ace. 8. P. G., 81 ; Whitehead's Perth Aniboy, i:^9; Drowne"s Commera. Discourse, p. 3H : Archives at Fulhnni : Anderson's Col. Ch.; Berriau's Trinity Ch. :i-i'i. 335. Klker's Newtown ; N. Y. Gen. Kec. Jan. lS7ti; N. E. Hist. & Gen. Kejr., Jan. 1878.

'2i The name of the father of Rev. John, the place of his birth, and date, are obtained from the Records ot Christ's (ollec'e, En'_'I;ind. The date of his birth, liow- ever. does not necessarily follow from the translation of these records, to be in the year 1(173, as ]SIr. Bolton "frives it. From his bein^' made (urate in l<i94, his birth would seem to have taken place several years earlit'r. say in 1()70. His baptism is not found iu the records of the Church of the Holy Cross, Crediton.

3) The followins is the c.stract from the admission book of Christ Collep:e, obtained by Edsrar J. Bartow from Joseph Romilly in a letter lo my father dated 21 February, 1S49. now in mv jjossessiou :— 1(!S9. Jan. 31mo., .loiuiiies I'.artow Thomac tilius in lucem editus apud Crediton in Comitaiu J)evoniensi. Uteris ibidem iusHtutns a Mro. Gregory, annos natus sedecem admissus est ISizator sub iMro. I>ovett.

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W. J. JoRling, the records were searched in 1871. Mr. Bartow's name occurs as early as 1694, when he was curate till 1697, when he was appointed vicar/ The following entry occurs : — " Mr. Brown Curit left on the 10th of June, 1694." Mr. Bartow's name occurs many times in the register for baptisms from 1694 onwards, and often in the register of marriasfes. On the 30th of August, 1694, a wedding was performed by Mr. Barto, the only time the w is omitted from the name. The last marriage by Mr. Bartow occurs in 1702. In the account of collections in the church in 1698, the name of John Bartow Vicar is given under date of March 27. The register of burials is lost. I also obtained from the vicar photographs of the church before and after the restoration, of the vicarage, of the village, and of Pam- pisford Hall, the seat of William Parker Hamond, Esq. The inhabitants of Westchester, New York, having requested the services of a minister of the Church of England, the Propagation Society made choice of Mr. Bartow for tliat purpose, who thereupon removed to America by leave of his Diocesan, Simon Patrick, Lord Bishop of Ely, having been licensed by Henry, Bishop of London, to officiate in the province of New York,

1) See Rev. John Bartow's answers to the queries of the Bishop of London, Hawk's MSS., quoted in Boltou's W. Ch.

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June 22, 1702.^ The subsequent labours of Mr. Bartow shewed the choice of the Society to have been well made. Col. Caleb Heathcote, in a letter to the secre- tary of that Society, dated Nov. 9th, 1705, says : — " There is not any gentleman wliom the Society hath sent over that is clothed with a fairer character than Mr. Bartow, of Westchester, and truly he is a very good and sober man, and is extremely well-liked and spoken of by his parishioners in general."

After a voyage of eleven weeks, Mr. Bartow arrived at New York, Sept. 29, 1702, and on the 19th of the following November was inducted^ into the Parish and Church of Westchester, Eastchester, Yonkers, and Manor of Pelham. The Parish contained only about 2000 souls, and £50 per annum was levied for the support of the Priest. In 1704, the trustees of West- chester voted Mr. Bartow, as a free gift of the town, " a certain piece of land at the rear of his house-lot." Besides in his own parish, Mr. Bartow performed mis- sionary duty at Hempstead and Jamaica, on Long Island, at Shrewsbury, Freehold, Amboy and other places in New Jersey. It was during his visits to

1) LicL-nse of the Bishop of London to Kev. John Bartow to officiate iu N. Y.; SnrrojrateV Office. X. Y.. Liber vi.; also the adinisiJiou of Kev. John Bartow to the ministerial function in the iirovince of N. Y'., Surrogate's Office, N. Y., Kecord of Wills, vol. v., p. 79. Copies in Bolton's W. Church.

2) Mandate and Certiflciitc of Mr. Bartow's Induction, Surrogate's Office, N. Y., Kecord of Wills, vol. v., pp. TJ, 80, copied iu Bolton'a W. Ch.

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Freehold that he became acquainted with the family of John Reid, whose daughter, Helena, he married at Free- hold, Sept. 17, 1705. Several sermons^ of Rev. John Bartow are in my possession, one of which I gave to Mr. Morey H. Bartow. From the Society's abstracts, we learn that "in 1714, by the blessing of God on Mr. Bartow's ministry at Westchester, Eastchester, Yonkers, and the Manor of Pelham, where there were formerly very few of the Church communion, there was visibly very great reformation of manners." In 1722, April 6, he purchased of John Mash the farm recently owned by Mr. Hatfield, where he resided till his death. Here in the family burial ground most of his children were in- terred. Mr. Bartow made his last will and testament Jan. 24, 1724,^ which was proved April 1, 1727. Probably his last communication to the Society was Oct. 6, 1725, soon after which he died. " Mr. Bartow [says Dr. Hawkins] continued in the discharge of his

1) Viz:— On S. Luke ii. 13, 14, preached at Pampisford 1700, Westchester 1703, W. C. 1710.

On Hosea xiv. 9, preached at W. C. July 23, 1710, Yonkers, 1713.

On Job xxi. 14, preached 1712: E. 0. July 1718.

On Isaiah Ixv. 11, preached at W. C. July 1722.

On 1 S. John v. 1.

When Kev. Lawson Carter hecame Eector of Trinity Church, New Kochelle, in 1827, he found in the par^^onage an old chest belouL'ing to his predecessor, Kev. Theo- dosius Bartow, coutaiuiuj,' old sermons of Kev. John Bartow and other papers. Mr. Carter, 1 understood, gave these sermons to difterent parties, some to the N. Y. Hist. Society. Kev. Mr. Cofiey, of Eastchester, read a sermon of Kev. John Bartow on Acts XX. 35, preached in S. PauFs 153 years before. In the corner-stone of .s. Luke's, Matteawan, was deposited a sermon of liev. John Bartow, on Heb. ill. 12, preached at Westchester, May 1714, and again at Eastchester Jan. 1719.

2) Will of the Rev. John Bartow, Surrogate's Office, X. Y., vol. i., ISO; copied In Bolton's W. Ch.

He was the instrument of bringing many separatists back to the Church, and admitting into it many hitherto careless adults. He likewise gave much of his time to the instruction of the poor negroes. By such long and faithful services he secured the general esteem of his people,"

Rev. John Bartow, by Helena Reid, his wife, had ten children, all sons, namely, besides George,^ who died young, and three who died in infancy, Thomas, Theo- philus, Theodosius, John, Anthony and Basil, a short account of each of whom will be given in the fourth generation.

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