The Biographical Dictionary of America/Atlee, Samuel John

ATLEE, Samuel John, delegate, was born in Trenton, N.J., in 1739; son of William and Jane (Alcock) Atlee, who settled in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1734. Samuel studied law, was a captain in the French and Indian war and was married April 19, 1762, to Sarah Richardson. He became colonel of the State battalion of musketry in March, 1776; was captured by the British at the battle of Long Island, and held a prisoner until Oct. 1, 1778. He served in the Continental congress, 1778-82; as supreme executive councilor of Lancaster county in 1783, and in the Pennsylvania assembly in 1782 and 1785-'86. He was a commissioner to the Indians in 1784. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 25, 1786.