American soldier and author, born in Bristol, PA, on the 10th of April 1752; was educated in Philadelphia and studied law; in 1775 received the appointment of captain, and engaged in raising recruits; was in the battle of Long Island, and was taken prisoner in a subsequent action; exchanged in 1778, but did not rejoin the army; was prothonotary of Dauphin County, PA, from 1785 to 1799. He resided for some years near Harrisburg, and removed to Philadelphia in 1816. He was a contributor to literary and political journals, and published Memoirs of a Life Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania Within the Last Sixty Years (1811), reprinted in London and Edinburgh. He died in Philadelphia on the 2nd of May 1818.
