Alternate birth year: 1734; s/o Benjamin Sr. (a Boston merchant), m. Hannah Hill (Ross, Herfordshire, England); grandson of Colonel Benjamin Church (fought in the Narragansett Indian War & led the force which hunted King Philip to his death 8/12/1675); grad. 1734 Harvard College; studied medicine with Dr. Joseph Pynchon; Surgeon General of the US 27 JUL 1775 - 17 OCT 1775; arrested for "communicating with the enemy" and convicted;
Sources: The Surgeon Generals of the U.S. Army & their Predecessors 1775-2000, http://history.amedd.army.mil/tsgs/default.htm
Victories of Army Medicine, by Col. Edgar Erskine Hume, J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1943
Wikipedia
www.si.umich.edu/spies/people.html
Sources: The Surgeon Generals of the U.S. Army & their Predecessors 1775-2000, http://history.amedd.army.mil/tsgs/default.htm
Victories of Army Medicine, by Col. Edgar Erskine Hume, J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1943
Wikipedia
www.si.umich.edu/spies/people.html
Alternate birth year: 1734; s/o Benjamin Sr. (a Boston merchant), m. Hannah Hill (Ross, Herfordshire, England); grandson of Colonel Benjamin Church (fought in the Narragansett Indian War & led the force which hunted King Philip to his death 8/12/1675); grad. 1734 Harvard College; studied medicine with Dr. Joseph Pynchon; Surgeon General of the US 27 JUL 1775 - 17 OCT 1775; arrested for "communicating with the enemy" and convicted;
Sources: The Surgeon Generals of the U.S. Army & their Predecessors 1775-2000, http://history.amedd.army.mil/tsgs/default.htm
Victories of Army Medicine, by Col. Edgar Erskine Hume, J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1943
Wikipedia
www.si.umich.edu/spies/people.html
Sources: The Surgeon Generals of the U.S. Army & their Predecessors 1775-2000, http://history.amedd.army.mil/tsgs/default.htm
Victories of Army Medicine, by Col. Edgar Erskine Hume, J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1943
Wikipedia
www.si.umich.edu/spies/people.html
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