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DIVISION III. 



BIOGRAPIIICAL, 



AND 



EARLY SETTLERS. 



Atlee, Samuel, a colonel of tlie first regiment of troops raised on the borders of 

 Lancaster and Chester counties in the Revolution, He covered the retreat from Long 

 Island, and being wounded was taken prisoner by the British, and kept confined in 

 New York. After his release he left tlie army, and was elected to offices of trust by 

 the people. Died suddenly in Philadelphia. 



Atlee, William Augustus, born at Philadelphia, July 1, 1735. He moved to Lan- 

 caster at a very early age, was a prominent citizen and an active and leading Whig 

 during the Revolution. He was commissioned a Judge of the Supreme Court of 

 Pennsylvania, August 16, 1777, and held his place until his death in 1793, from yellow 

 fever contracted in Philadelphia, while attending court. 



Barton, Benjamin S., M. D., professor in the University of Pennsylvania, was bom at 

 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1766. His mother was the sister of the celebrated Rittenhouse. 

 In 1786 he went to Great Britain and pursued his medical studies at Edinburgh and 

 London. He afterwards visited Gottingen, and there obtained the degree of Doctor in 

 Medicine. On his retm-n from Europe in 1789, he established himself as a physician in 

 Philadelphia, and soon obtained an extensive practice. In the same year he was ap- 

 jDointed professor of natural history and botany in the college of Philadeli)hia. On tlie 

 resignation of Dr. Griffiths he was appointed professor of materia medica ; and succeeded 

 Dr. Rush in the department of the theory jand practice of medicine. He died in 181o. 

 His chief publication is Elements of Zoology and Botany. 



Barton, Thomas, i was born in Ireland, in the year 1730. He received his education 

 at Trinity College, Dublin. Shortly after he graduated, he came to this country, and 

 engaged as an assistant tutor in the Academy of Philadelphia, where he i-emained for 

 two years. In January, 175.'), he w^ent to England with letters testimonial fri>m the 

 Professors of the College, and the Clergy of the Province of Pennsylvania, and with 

 an earnest petition from the inhabitants of Huntingdon, Pa., that he might be appointed 

 their Missionary. After the necessary preliminaries had been attenileil to, he was or- 

 dained, and came back to this country as itinerant Missionary for the counties uf York 

 and Cumberland. 



Having reached Philadelphia about the 10th of April, n.').), he inunediately wrote to 

 the people of Huntingdon, apprising them of his arrival; whereupon they sent a num- 

 ber of wagons to remove his efiects. He reached the field of his labors about the close 

 of May, and his first business w\as to make himself acquainted with the condition and 

 the numbers of the three congregations of York, Huntingdon and Carlisle; and. after 

 he had settled Wardens and Vestrymen in each, they all met, and according to tlieir 

 numbers, agreed mutually that he should officiate three Sundays in six at Huntingdon, 

 two at Carlisle and one at York; and, having ascertained that there were within the 

 1 From Sprague's Ann.ils of the American Pulpit. 



