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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Governor Slmlze — and abou: a year 

 afterwards was elected to the United 

 States Senate. In 18ai, on account of 

 ill health, he resigned his seat in the 

 Senate, but while a member of that 

 body he became a prominent candidate 

 before the Democratic convention for 

 nomination as Governor of the State. and 

 was only defeated by a combination of 

 corrupt factions. Not long after he 

 commenced the practice of the law, he 

 was married to Harriet, the eldest 

 daughter of Judge Darlington of West 

 Chester, but they had no children. His 

 death occurred in 1834, at the age of 

 forty-three years. 



Bar\ard Richard, came from Shef- 

 field, England, either in company with 

 William Penn or very shortly after- 

 wards, and settled in Middletown. He 

 ■was a Grand Juror in 168.5, and served 

 the constable's office for Middletown in 

 1G91. He was married at the time of 

 his arrival in this country, and died 

 prior to 1704. His children were 

 Richard, who married Ann, the daughter 

 of Abia Taylor ; Thomas, who married 

 Elizabeth Swain of Newark, and after- 

 wards Sarah Carter of Chester Meet- 

 ing : Sarah, who married ; 



Mary, who married Jacob Roman ; 

 Lucy, who married Thomas Dutton ; 

 Lydia, who married Daniel Walker; 

 and Rebecca, who married Enoch 

 Flower. Richard Barnard the elder, 

 was in membership with Friends, as 

 all his children appear to have been. 

 After his death, the land he had pur- 

 chased in Aston was sold by his son 

 Richard to his brother Thomas who 

 settled there. Richard then removed 

 to Marlborough. 



Bartram, John, from Ashborn in 

 Derbyshire, England, came to Pennsyl- 

 vania in 168.^, and settled in Darby 

 township west of Darby creek. He 

 ■was the son of Richard Bartram, and 

 had been married and settled some 

 time in the town of Ashborn. At the 

 time of his removal to America, his 

 family consisted of his wife Elizabeth, 

 three sons — John. Isaac and William. 

 and one daughter, Mary. He died on 

 the first of September, ICHT, in full 

 unity with the Society of Friends, 

 having lost his son John five years 

 before. Mary was married to John 

 Wood of Darby in 1606. 



Bartram, Isaac, the second son of 

 the immigrant. John Bartram, became 

 possessed of all his ftither's real estate 

 by virtue of a deed of gift executed a 

 short time before his death. Isaac 

 probably resided with his mother on 

 the mansion-farm in Darby township 

 till 1708, when he died unmarried, 

 having devised the family homestead 

 to his mother during life, and then to 

 John, (the botanist,) the eldest son of 

 his brother William. 



Bartram, William, the youngest son 

 of the elder John Bartram, was married 

 to Elizabeth, the daughter of James 

 Hunt of Kingsessing, at Darby meeting, 

 on the 27th of March, 1696, by whom 

 he had two sons, John (the botanist) 

 and James. His wife died in 1701. In 

 1707 he was married to Elizabeth, the 

 daughter of William Smith of Darby, 

 bywhomhehad two children, William 

 and Elizabeth. In 1712 heremovedto 

 Carolina with his " wife and youngest 

 child," but probably died before the end 

 of the year, as his will was admitted to 

 probate on the 17th of January, 1713. 



Bartram, John, the earliest of 

 American botanists, and the first to 

 establish a botanic garden in America, 

 was the eldest son of the above named 

 William Bartram, anil grandson of the 

 immigrant, John. He was born in Darby 

 township on the 23rd March, 1699. By 

 the will of his uncle, Isaac Bartram, he 

 became possessed of the mansion prop- 

 erty of his grandfather, and by the will 

 of his father, of one fourth of his 

 estate, which is not supposed to have 

 been large. 



Being left an orphan at the age of about 

 thirteen years in a newly settled coun- 

 try almost destitute of schools, it can- 

 not be supposed, that his opportunities 

 for obtaining an education were very 

 good. Such as they were, they were 

 embraced by him with all the spirit of 

 youthful enthusiasm ; devoting him- 

 self to the study of Latin and Greek 

 when opportunity' presented. His in- 

 clinatioii was to study j)hysic and 

 surgery, and in the latter science he 

 had acquired so much knowledge as to 

 be useful to his neighbors. His study 

 of nature commenced while engaged 

 in the labor of the field. From her 

 ample volume wide spread before him, 

 John Bartram took his earliest lessons. 



