Church, Benjamin, 1734-1778
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Physician, poet, author, and traitor; b. Newport, R.I.; graduate of Harvard, 1754; lived in Boston and Raynham, Mass.; after correspondence with British was intercepted in 1775, he was tried by court martial. Continental Congress resolved on Nov. 6, that he should be imprisoned at Norwich, Conn., but because of illness was removed to Massachusetts and put on parole; allowed to sail from Boston in May 1776 for London but ship never heard from again; family was pensioned by the Crown.
Physician, poet, and author; member Boston Committee of Correspondence and Massachusetts Provincial Congress; court-martialed for criminal correspondence with British officers.
Born in Newport, Rhode Island. Physician and political essayist supporting Loyalist cause. Graduated Harvard 1754. Chief of 1st Continental Army Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Later found guilty by Court Martial (presided over by George Washington) of having sent secret letter to British officer. After parole in 1776 left Boston for West Indies. His ship was lost at sea.
Church was a Boston physician and "Chief Physician & Director General" of the Medical Service of the Continental Army from July 27, 1775 to October 17, 1775.
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