Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 7 ISSUE RICHARD BARTLETT, came from Stopham, Sussex, England, settled in Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1635; d. 25th May, 1647; wife's name not given. He was descended from Adam DE BARTTELOT, who with William the Conqueror came over from Normandy, and fought at the Battle of Hastings, and who received grants of land at Stopham, Sussex. The original arms of the family in England were sable, three sinister falconers' gloves, argent, arranged triangularly, two above, one below, pendent, bands around the wrists, and tassels, golden. Near the close of the fifteenth century, one of the crests, the castle, was granted to John BARTTELOT who in command of the Sussex troops, captured the castle of Fontenoy, in France. In the sixteenth century, the swan crest was introduced to commemorate the right of the family to keep swans upon the River Arun, a right granted by William the Conqueror. The estates, consisting of several thousands of acres of land, granted more than eight hundred years ago have descended in the male line of the BARTTELOT family to the present day. The present head of the family in England is Sir Walter George BARTTELOT, who owns and occupies the ancestral estate. His father, Sir Walter Balfour BARTTELOT, was killed in the Boer War. His younger and only brother, Commander BARTTELOT of the Pathfinder, was killed 9th September, 1914, in the present European war. His ship was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the British Channel.