History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . g into battle. Thus William Bartlet could be and do, since he wasborn an athlete. Knowing him only in his old age, itseems to us as though he never was an infant, neverhad seen an hour of weakness. He was descendedfrom the old Norman knights of the era of theCrusades; from the men who followed William theConqueror into England, to give to that island, to bethe cradle of the modern Romans, new life and newlaws, new government and a new destiny ; creatingfor them that high place in hist
History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . g into battle. Thus William Bartlet could be and do, since he wasborn an athlete. Knowing him only in his old age, itseems to us as though he never was an infant, neverhad seen an hour of weakness. He was descendedfrom the old Norman knights of the era of theCrusades; from the men who followed William theConqueror into England, to give to that island, to bethe cradle of the modern Romans, new life and newlaws, new government and a new destiny ; creatingfor them that high place in history they have sonobly filled ; moving them on to the empire so vastthat the sun never sets upon it, whose morning andevening drum-beat is hoard around the globe ; whichem|)ire may yet, for aught that now appears, holduniversal ilominion. The grand army that con-quered the world under Alexander the Greatmarched ea-stward, and have died ; the .glo-Nor-mans marched west to greater victories, for they fouiidother worlds to conquer. The name Bartlet was originally Bartelot; and the ? By Gaorgo J. L. ^fjEMLSLSsMi mi^miniimir. NEWBURY PORT. 1805 first of the family in England, like the first man inthe (.Teiition of the world, was named Adam ; and asthe human race dates not hack of Adam, it is not wellto go deeper into the mists of antiquity, for this fam-ily, than to Adam Bartelot or Bartlet. He, withsixty thousand other followers of the Conqueror, theNorman kniphtsand their vassals, had the i)romiscofthe spoils of victory ; and from liK!G, when the battleof Hastings was Ibught, the barons of England loveto date their honors and names. In the pavement ofthe old stone church, on the ancestral estate of seventhousand acres, in Sussex County, in England, theBartlets can trace their genealogy—the foot-prints ofa noble family. It is one of the finest estates inGreat Britain ; has been in their hands more thaneight hundred years, and can never be sold or passfrom them. Their coat-
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