, Lancaster, Pa., pages 724 and 727, gives the deed of Thomas and Sarah Barton "To Paul Zantzinger, executed August 26, 1778. "The said Thomas Barton choosing to sell his estate, real, retire out of the State, both in pursuance of an Act of General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania, entitled an Act for

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

real estate, and went to New York, joining Howe's army as Chaplain. In a letter written by Mr. Barton, No- vember 2, 1776, he says: "I was obliged to shut up my churches to avoid the fury of the populace who would not suffer the Liturgy to be used unless the Collects and Prayer for the King and Royal

and genteel living off my landed estate, to be proportionately borne by my legatees." Major James Mercer was a witness to the will. The following flattering extract, taken from a letter of Lieutenant Col- onel, later General, Hand, of this county, to his wife, dated Camp Pros- pect Hill, November 10