42 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



1739," pp. 3-13 (preface dated Philadelphia, 1737).* In 

 1744 he 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 fine trees and rare shrubs 

 and plants. t Here was spent the quiet days of an extremely 

 eventful and busy life. 



CHRISTOPHER WITT. 



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

 named, was born in AViltshire, England, in the year 1675, 

 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 125 acres. After the 

 death of Geissler, Dr. W^itt moved, according to tradition, to 

 the large mansion house still standing at the south-east 

 corner of Main and High Streets. 



* See an article of mine, " James Logan," Botanical Gazette, August, 1894, p. 307. 

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

 Society and one in Independence Hall. 



1 1877, SCHARFF AND Westcott— T/ie Historic Mansions and Buildiyigs of Phila- 

 delphia, p. 155. There is an oil painting of Stenton at the Pennsylvania Historical 

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



X 1895. Sachse— r/ie German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania, p. 402. 



