- came the friend of Mercer and Wash- ington. He published a sermon upon Braddock's defeat in 1755. John Penn, the proprietary Governor, was an admirer of Thomas Barton, and said, "He deserved the commen- dation of all lovers of their country." In 1759 he was elected pastor of St. James' Church

MAJOR JAMES HAMILTON. Hamilton. "This surname is de- rived from the. Irish 'amhael,' Greek 'omalos,' Latin `similis,' like, and `thoovn,' a weave, and implies that the ancestor of the family was as im- petuous in battle as the billows are at sea." The name of Hamilton appears very frequently upon

THE WHITEHILLS AND ROB- ERT JENKINS IN CONGRESS James Whitehill, the pioneer ances- tor of this family of prominence, set- tled in Salisbury township, on Pequea creek, a short distance from its source and near the Pequea Presby- terian Church, about two miles from the Old Road and in provincial