Request for Assistance in Providing Doctors for Sick Men
Document 1798Sick sailors left at Newport, RI and Norfolk, VA. Stoddert noted that in the future sailors will be left at New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. Doctors employed at considerable expense to tend to the sick, Stoddert requested arrangements be made for treatment by surgeons stationed at noted locations for future sick sailors.
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Sick sailors left at Newport, RI and Norfolk, VA. Stoddert noted that in the future sailors will be left at New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. Doctors employed at considerable expense to tend to the sick, Stoddert requested arrangements be made for treatment by surgeons stationed at noted locations for future sick sailors.
Date
09/14/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Trenton
Collection
Document number
1798091454200
Note
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Notable persons
James McHenry
Benjamin Stoddert
surgeon
sailors
sick
doctors
troops
Notable locations
Trenton
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Newport
Rhode Island