42 THE P.OTAMSTS <>K PHILADELPHIA. 



I":; 1 .)," pp. :"J-i:-J (preface dated Philadelphia, 1737).* In 

 17-1 Mic published also a translation of Cicero's treatise, " De 

 Senectute," at Philadelphia. 



The country home of James Logan was at Stenton, 

 Germantown, adorned with many line trees and rare shrubs 

 and plants. f Here way spent the quiet days of an extremely 

 eventful and busy life. 



CHRISTOPHER WITT. 



Dr. Christopher Witt,! or DeWitt, as he is occasionally 

 named, was born in Wiltshire, England, in the year 1075, 

 he emigrated to America in the year 1704, and joined the 

 theosophical colonists on the Wissahickon. He was then in 

 his twenty-ninth year, and in addition to being a thorough 

 naturalist and a skilled physician, was well versed in the 

 mystic sciences and in astronomy. He was esteemed highly 

 by his fellow-mystics, his services as a physician were 

 constantly called into requisition. Shortly after the death 

 of Kelpius, Doctor Witt, together with Daniel Geissler, 

 removed to a small house in Germantown, upon the land 

 owned by Christian Warmer, who, with his family, looked 

 after the welfare of their tenants. In 1718 Dr. Witt pur- 

 chased ground aggregating in all 1'2~> acres. After the 

 death of Geissler, Dr. Witt moved, according to tradition, to 

 the large mansion house still standing at the south-east 

 corner of Main and High Streets. 



* See ;ui article nf mine, " .hunt's Lofjan," Hotunical (Jazcttf, August, IS'.M, p. 307. 

 There are two oil paintings of Logan extant, one at the Pennsylvania Historical 

 Society and one in Independence Hall. 



1 1877. SCIIAKKK AND WESTCOTT The Historic Mansions and Buildings of J'/i ilu- 

 detphia, p. 155. There is an oil paintini; of Stenhm at the Pennsylvania Historical 

 Society, and a pen and ink sketch by Mumford at the Philadelphia Library. 



I 1895. SACHSE The German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania, p. 402. 



