Thus we have the following notices : " September 5th, 170S, came a distressed woman, widow of Maynard, through Westchester, who had nine children murdered by the Indians. Collected for her in the church, eleven shillings and six pence." The following Sunday he made a similar collection for a poor man. Besides Westchester at which he resided, Mr. Bartow oiBciated once a month at Eastchester, and occasionally at Yonkers. The populaiion of Westchester was about five hundred and fifty : that of Eastchester, four hundred, (fcc.c

Colonel Caleb Heathcote in a letter to the secretary of the Venerable Propagation Society, dated manor of Scarsdale, Nov. 9, 1705, says, " there is not any gentleman whom 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

a Church Record, Francis L. Hawks, D. D., Editor, vol. i. no 16, 1841, b MS. Letters in Lambeth collection, vol. ii. L 32.

* Hist. Not. of the Col. Church, by Ernest Hav?kins, 276. MS. letters, Lambeth Coll. vol. ix. p. 109.

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is extremely well liked of and spoken of by his parishioners in general."

The following items are taken from the town records : "At a meeting of the jaslices of the vestry the 6th of Maich, 1704-5, John WiUiams late constable for the year 1703, appears with a receipt from Mr. John Bartow, bearing date the 5th of March, 1704, for the snm of £26 10, which is the full quota for the minister's rate in Westchester.