BIOGRAPHY. 



Some account of the late Mr. John Bartram, of 

 Pennsylvania. By William Bartram. 



RICHARD BARTRAM, the grandfather of 

 the subject of this sketch, came from England to 

 America with the adherents of the famous William 

 Penn, proprietor of Pennsylvania, towards the close 

 of the seventeenth century. He settled a plantation 

 in the township of Marpole, and county of Chester, 

 at the distance of twelve miles from Philadelphia. 



From Richard descended two sons, John and Isaac. 

 The former inherited the paternal estate in Marpole, 

 and the. latter settled upon another plantation in Darby, 

 at a few miles distance. John, the elder, had two 

 sons by his first marriage, namely, James and John, 

 early in the beginning of the eighteenth century ; and 

 by his second marriage, a son and a daughter, named 

 William and Elizabeth. Soon after his second mar- 

 riage, he removed to North-Carolina, where he settled 

 a plantation at a place called Whitoc, and there, Avith 

 the greatest part of the settlement, fell a victim to 

 the rage of the Whitoc-Indians. The widow and 



