Physician; born in
New Haven, Conn., June 24, 1734; was an army chaplain in 1755, and began the practice of medicine at
Bedford, N. Y., in 1756.
In 1760 he removed to New Haven, where he practised his profession more than fifty years. He was a legislator, and a professor in the Medical School of Yale College from its organization.
He died in
New Haven, Conn.,
June 16. 1826.
His son
Aeneas, who graduated at Yale College in 1780, was assistant surgeon under
Dr. Thacher in the
Continental army from 1780 to 1783; afterwards became a merchant in New Haven, and died there, Aug. 22, 1852, aged eighty-nine years.
