HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.
 

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CHAPTER  XLIX.
 

OUR   POETS   AND   THEIR   POETRY.
 

William Satterthwaite.—Came to Bucks county.—Pellar andJohn Watson.—Satterth¬
waite at Durham and Lumberville.—Domestic troubles.—His death and poetry.,—
Doctor Jonathan Ingham; Doctor John Watson; Paul Preston; Samuel Johnson.
Eliza Pickering; Ann Paxson; Nicholas Biddle, and "Ode to Bogle."—Samuel
Blackfan ; Samuel Swain.—The Lumberville " Box."—Cyrus Livezey ; George
Johnson ; Jerome Buck; Thaddeus T, Kenderdine; Isaac Walton Spencer ;
Allen Livezey; Sidney L. Anderson; Catharine Mitchel; Lizzie VanDeventer;
Octavia E. Hill; Rebecca Smith; Laura W. White; Emily F. Seal; Elizabeth
Lloyd; M. A. Heston.
 

There was but little outgrowth of poetic fesling among the first
settlers, as their life in the wilderness Avas too hard for any display
of sentiment. But there Avas great proclivity for rhyming by the
middle of the last century, and from that time to this our county
has abounded in Avriters of verse.

William SattertliAvaite, Avho is classed among the " early poets of
Pennsylvania," was probably the earliest, as Avell as the most dis¬
tinguished, of our domestic versifiers, but only a fcAV of his efihsions
have survived him. He Avas born in England the early part of the
last century, received a good classical education, and settled in
Pennsylvania Avhile a young man. It is difficult to tell at Avliat time
he first came to Bucks county. He is said to have been a school¬
teacher in England, and that one night a school girl, benighted on
her Avay home, Avas offered the hospitahty of his school-house. The
evening Avas long enough for their courtship and marriage. Satis¬
fied of the lalse step they had taken, they sailed for Pennsylvania in
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