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In the year 1702, came from England, the Rev. John Bartow, A. M., 

 who was the first regularly inducted rector of this parish, elected by the 

 vestry under the act of 1693. He was the son of Thomas Bartow, M.D., 



of Crediton,in Devonshire; by his wife, Grace , (who was buried 



in the church yard of the Holy Cross, Crediton, Jan. 25th, 1676.) Mr. 

 Bartow at an early age was instructed by one Mr. Gregory, entered 

 Christ College, Cambridge, January 31st, 1689, where he was admitted 



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a sizer under the tuition of Mr. Lovett, and graduated in 1692." Soon 

 after his ordination he was inducted to the vicarage of Pampsford, in 

 Cambridgeshire, May the 28th, 1698, and removed to the Province 01 

 New York, by the leave of the Right Rev. Simon Patrick, the then Lord 

 Bishop of Ely. The first known ancestor of John was General Bertaut, 

 of Bretagne or Brittany, in France ; a Huguenot, who fled after the Mas- 

 sacre of St. Bartholomew, A.D., 1572, into Holland and came thence to 

 England, when the name was anglicised to Bartow. Of this family was 

 John Bertaut Siegneur de Freaville and de Courcelles and Counseiller 

 of the Parliament of Paris, who married Marie de la Garde, and had 



a Matriculation Books of Christ College, Cambridge, MSS. of Rev. Evelyn Bartow. 

 b Pampsford la in the hundred of Childrod and Deanery of Camps, lies seven miles south of 

 Cambridge. 



