The Biographical Dictionary of America/Barton, Thomas

​BARTON, Thomas, clergyman, was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, in 1730. He was educated at the University of Dublin, immigrated to the United States, and settled himself as tutor in the academy at Philadelphia, afterwards the University of Pennsylvania. He went to England in 1754 for ordination, and after taking orders returned to America and became rector of the St. James Episcopal church, Lancaster, Pa., which cure he held for over nineteen years. He married Miss Rittenhouse, a sister of the celebrated astronomer and mathematician. Unwilling to take the oath of allegiance after the declaration of independence, he removed to New York, where he died May 25, 1780.

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