George Cheyne Shattuck papers, 1797-1912.

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George Cheyne Shattuck papers, 1797-1912.

Papers of Boston physicians George C. Shattuck Sr. and Jr. and their families. Includes family and personal correspondence and papers; account books (1825-53) and medical appointment books (1818-49) of George Sr.; and account book (1843-46), and diary (1850-54) of George Jr. Also, papers of shipmaster Benjamin Shattuck, including loose papers, log of brig Rigel (1811) and schooner Nancy (1815), and diary of a journey to Arkansas (1819). Collection includes a Shattuck family genealogy, and correspondence and other papers of related Brune, Cheever, Davis, and Derby family members.

15 boxes, 8 vols., and 1 oversize box.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7140303

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Rigel (Ship)

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Shattuck, Benjamin, 1777-1831.

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Shattuck, George C. (George Cheyne), 1813-1893

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Shattuck (Harvard, M.D. 1835) was professor of clinical medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1855 until 1874, served as dean of the Medical School, and succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes as visiting physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1849. After graduation from medical school, he went to Paris with his friends H. I. Bowditch, A. Stillé, and Metcalfe to study with Louis. In 1838 he and Stillé read papers which differentiated typhus from typhoid fever before the Paris Society for...

Shattuck family.

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Derby family.

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Davis family.

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Nancy (Ship)

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Voyages: (1) 1793/4 Bengal. Capt Alexander Paterson. Lizard 29 Dec 1793 - 20 Jun 1794 Calcutta - left Bengal 3 Sep - 25 Sep Madras - 10 Dec St Helena - 12 Feb 1795 Kinsale - 26 Feb Beachy Head. British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : CorporateBody : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000093.0x000238 Trading vessel, out of Rochester, Mass., mastered by Capt. George W. Williamson. From the description of Logbook of the ship Nancy, 1810 Sept. 4-1811 Jan...

Cheever family.

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Shattuck, George Cheyne, 1783-1854

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Brune family.

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