The treason of Dr. Benjamin Church 1865

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The treason of Dr. Benjamin Church 1865

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One volume, containing notes for a biographical sketch of Dr. Benjamin Church, director general and chief physician of the hospital of the Continental Army. The volume also includes source material relating to Benjamin Church: verses occasioned by the detection of Dr. Church's traitorous correspondence, from Rivington's New York Gazetter, October 19, 1775; and a transcript of an oration delivered by Benjamin Church, March 5, 1773, to commemorate the bloody tragedy of March 1770

.21 linear foot (1 volume)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Purple, Samuel S. (Samuel Smith), 1822-1900

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Samuel Smith Purple was a physician with an interest in genealogy and medical libraries. He was elected president of the New York Academy of Medicine in 1875. From the description of Samuel Smith Purple collection, 1865-1882. (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 727025434 ...

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. ...