416 JOHN BARTRAM [1761. 



sence. I hope he is, by this, returned to his family, and well. 

 Pray, give my respects to him, and tell him I should be very glad 

 he would tell Mr. Ratlive what the Andromeda, on the road he 

 mentioned to me, is, and I will most certainly get it, and send at 

 a proper season. But I cannot find it out from Doctor Garden. 



Mr. Ratlive is my neighbour, and will inform me better than 

 any letter can. 



I herewith send some roots of the Indian or Worm Pink [Spi- 

 gelian as the seeds were all fallen, before I had yours about them. 



In the same tub, are some slips of Mrs. Bee's little flower, lest 

 the seeds should fail. The berries on the trees are not yet ripe 

 enough ; but, if I live, your spouse may certainly expect them, 

 with the other things. I am, with great truth, your well-wisher 

 and friend, 



Martha Logan. 



JOHN BARTRAM TO ARCHIBALD BARTRAM. 



1761. 



My friend, George Bartram, showed me two letters, and two 

 coats of arms, that thee sent him, wherein thee desired me to 

 write an account of our family ;* but, as I was but young when 



* The following sketch was obligingly furnished by Edward Armstrong, Esq., 

 of Philadelphia, a gentleman eminently distinguished for his attainments and 

 skill in historical, genealogical, and heraldic lore : 



"It has not been in the power of the writer of this note, from the materials 

 within his reach, to throw any light on the early history of the family of Mr. 

 Bartram, beyond that to be obtained from the account preserved by Mr. Bar- 

 tram himself, unless the arms found among his papers, and which correspond 

 with those of the Bartrams of Scotland, should be accepted in proof that he was 

 of Scottish origin. 



" The names Bartram and Bertram are the same, as records abundantly 

 prove ; and it appears to be of Norman origin. Although there are instances of 

 those who left England, went over to the Conqueror, and returned with him to 

 partake the results of his achievements, it does not appear that 'this was the case 

 with any Bertram ; at all events, we cannot find the name in England, prior to 

 the conquest. In Nace's" roll of the companions of the Conqueror, said to be the 

 oldest list extant of the warriors who fought at Hastings, and which is now in the 

 British Museum, but formerly belonged to Battle Abbey, we discover a Robert 

 Bertram. In a list prepared by Fox, ' out of the ancient chronicles of England, 

 touching the names of other* Normans which seemed to remain alive after the 



a Preface to 1st Ellis's Gen. Introd. to Domesday IX. 



