Botanist, son of the preceding, born at Kingsessing, PA, on the 9th of February 1739, died at the same place, on the 22nd of July 1823. He was a botanist, and traveled in the Eastern states, making scientific collections. For several years he raised indigo on the St. Johns River, in Florida. He published books descriptive of his travels, and made a very complete list of native birds. His fame rests chiefly on his Travels Through North and South Carolina, which was translated into several European languages, and is known as the “starting-point of a distinctively American school of ornithology.”
