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school flourished many years, and was attended with 

 some remarkable consequences. It produced an anxious 

 inquiry among the juvenile class, who attended the 

 school, which increased and grew into what is now 

 termed a revival of religion. The scholars of the Sab- 

 bath school met together every day before and after 

 common school hours, to pray and exhort one another, 

 under the superintendance of one of the brethren.'^ 



The year 1749, is remarkable in the annals of Lan- 

 caster county, for the birth of David Ramsay, the great 

 American Historian. He was born in Drumore town- 

 ship, the 2d of April, 1749. He was the youngest son 

 of James Ramsay,'^ a respectable farmer, who had emi- 

 grated from Ireland at an early age, and by the cultiva- 

 tion of his farm, with his ov/n hands, provided the means 

 of subsistence and education for a numerous family. — 

 He was a man of intelligence and piety, and early sowed 

 seeds of knowledge and religion in the minds of his 

 children. He lived to reap the fruits of his labors, and 

 to see his offspring grow up around him, ornaments of 

 society, and props to him in the evening of his eventful 

 life. 



David Ramsay was educated at Princeton college, and 

 took the degree of bachelor of arts at the age of 16. — 

 After devoting some time to the general cultivation of 

 his mind, he began the study of physic, at Philadelphia, 

 and attended the lectures at the college of Pennsylvania. 

 He commenced the active duties of his profession in 

 Maryland, where he continued one year, and then went 

 to Charleston, South Carolina, with a letter of very high 

 recommendation from Dr. Rush. He soon acquired 



♦David's mother was a Miss Montgomery. Many of his 

 relatives still reside in this county; among whom are the 

 Pattersons, Clcndenins, and others, of Little Britain. 



