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Bartram, William

9 Feb. 1739–22 July 1823

William Bartram, naturalist, was the son of John Bartram, an eminent naturalist, and his wife, Ann Mendenhall Bartram. He was born near Philadelphia, where his gifts as an artist brought him in his youth to the attending of Benjamin Franklin. Franklin proposed that William become an engraver, merely he was apprenticed instead to a Philadelphia merchant in 1756. In 1761, his apprenticeship completed, William moved to Bladen Canton, where his uncle William had a big plantation and considerable property on the Cape Fright River. Hither the nephew opened a shop and spent the next iv years alternately occupied with his business and investigating the flora and animal of the Cape Fear region.

The Bartram family unit was established in the Cape Fear country past the early eighteenth century, when Bartram's grandfather, the first William Bartram, settled at Whitoc plantation. There he was attacked and killed past local Indians, and his wife and sons, William and John, were taken convict. Mrs. Bartram was subsequently able to render to Philadelphia with her sons. John remained in Philadelphia, but William later on returned to Due north Carolina to resume control of their father's manor. He became a man of considerable influence every bit a colonel of militia and was for many years a representative in the colonial legislature of Northward Carolina. White Lake in Bladen County was known as Lake Bartram when he endemic much land in the vicinity. Colonel Bartram likewise had a son named William, first cousin of the naturalist, and it was this household that the naturalist joined in 1761. The two cousins were frequently companions on botanical and zoological jaunts in the vicinity of Ashwood, Bartram'southward plantation.

The mercantile venture of William Bartram did non prosper in Bladen. John Bartram, newly appointed as botanist to King George Three, stopped past Ashwood in 1765 on a mission to Florida; he took his son with him on the trip, and afterwards the 2 returned to Philadelphia. William tried for three more years to find success equally a merchant in Philadelphia, but by 1770 he was almost bankrupt and disillusioned with the try. He returned to Ashwood, where, during the next two years, Colonel Bartram, his wife, and their son, Dr. William Bartram, all died. Leaving Ashwood in the latter function of 1772 and returning once more than to Philadelphia, Bartram in the following bound set along on his famous "travels," outlined in the book Travels through Northward and Due south Carolina, Georgia, etc., which he brought out in 1791. Chiefly through the fine reception accorded to the volume, Bartram became an established member of the international literary and scientific customs and a member of many American and foreign learned societies. A Quaker by upbringing, Bartram became an ardent deist.

Bartram visited Ashwood, plainly for the last time, tardily in 1776. He ever held Ashwood in affectionate regard as a identify where he and his cousins had engaged in "pastimes . . . of the nigh Innocent and simple nature such as amuse Brothers, Sisters and Friends." At least one biographer has suggested that William had a brief honey matter with one of Colonel Bartram'due south daughters, but the naturalist was never married.

References:

DAB, vol. two (1929).

Ernest Earnest, John and William Bartram (1940).

Francis Harper, Travels of William Bartram, naturalists' ed. (1958).

Additional Resources:William Bartram, 1739-1823
Travels Through North & Due south Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper-Plates. Philadelphia: Printed by James & Johnson, 1791. UNC Libraries: https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/bartram/menu.html

The New Georgia Encyclopedia: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Commodity.jsp?id=h-2179

Florida Museum of Natural History: http://world wide web.flmnh.ufl.edu/naturalists/bartramw01.htm

Encyclopedia of Alabama: http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1141

Northward Carolina Bartrum Trail Social club: http://ncbartramtrail.org/well-nigh/about-bartram/

The Natures of John and William Bartram, by Thomas P. Slaughter, UPenn Printing: http://world wide web.upenn.edu/pennpress/volume/14205.html

William Bartram's Legacy, Documenting the American South, UNC Libraries: https://docsouth.unc.edu/highlights/bartram.html

"William Bartram." Due north.C. Highway Historical Marker Q-44, N.C. Office of Archives & History. https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/history/division-historical-resources/nc-highway-historical-marking-program/Markers.aspx?sp=Markers&one thousand=Markers&sv=Q-44 (accessed March 22, 2013).

Fagin, Nathan Bryllion. William Bartram, interpreter of the American mural. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press. 1933. https://annal.org/details/cu31924103992644 (accessed March 22, 2013).

Prototype Credits:

William Bartramby, by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827). Oil on paper on sail, 1808. Courtesy of the  Independence National Historical Park Collection Philadelphia, Pennsylvania via National Portrait Gallery.Available from http://world wide web.npg.si.edu/exh/franklin/bartram.htm (accessed March 22, 2013).

Drawing from Bartram's Travels. Courtesy of UNC Libraries. Available from https://docsouth.unc.edu/highlights/bartram.html (accessed March 22, 2013).

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