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(c) Dr. I.edyard's certificate,
(4) Drs. Warren's, McKnight's and Ledyard's certi
ficates.
(c) The fame, and al! the others.
(J) and (g) Drs. Adams's, Turner's, McKnight's,
Warren's, Crosby's and Ridgely's certificates.
(b) and (1) Drs. Ridgely's and Crosby's certificates.
(9 (0 ( m ) (") D rs ° Warren's, Adama's, McKnight's,
Turner's, Burnett's, Ridgely's and Crosby's certificates,
And firft in regard to my attention to the sick.
To all whom it may concern.
The Surgeonsand Mates of the General Hospital under
John Morgan, Efy tit: Di r edcr Geh<raiund Physician
in Chief, do tefiifo
' That the faidjohn Morgan gave orders to the differ
* ent Surgeons cfthe General, Hospital, to receive under
' their care all patients belcugiu;.,to t^e army, whether
' tick or wounded, that were duly reported and found to
' be proper objects, without dbouaion . with full power
% to draw upon the Aid department for whatever medicine
' al and other Hofphal fior> could be procured ; (a) —
' that the said Director 'General was eve ^teotive to any
' calls which they made upon him, lor supply oft ! e Hof
' pmil, and for pn a. ring .comfortable accramedatron,
' provision, n&elfaritsand rebUhmeats for the sick (o);
' that in particular inftahces, on He breaking up or Kegi
' mental Hcfpitals, and routing the fick.b, the approach
''of the snemy, Ihe Alt. be'G, poured upon his care in
' vast numbers, without either Surgeon. .Mate, Quarter
' Master, or apy ouecffi.tr to accompany ; Dr. Morgan
' having but little affiftapre tor such amazing and hidden
' incre fe of numbers, went from house to house, to pro
'' cure quarters for the sick, and provision for their fup
' port, intruding the country people in what manner to
' take charge of them, even qo feeing them provide their
f meals for present reheihment, .and to take core for their
' future fuftenanue; (c) that bevifreci the Hospitals fre
-6 quently, going throw h each ward in person, to fee that
' the sick were d& attended and provided for ; (?) that
< he confuited very readily with the Surgeons, a?-d gave
' his abidance whenever there was occasion, and shewed
' a readings to remove every difficulty, that offered to the
' utmost of his power; (e) that he performed capital
' operations himfeif, when present, or aflifted the Surge
' ons of the Hospital Therein, and hath Hooped to do the
<duty of a mere Mate, in dreffingihemoß fipiple as well
' as the rnoft dangerous wounds of the soldiers in the Ge
' neral Hospital, as ah example and encouragement to the
' officers under him, to attend carefully to that duty , (f)
' that if the sick have at any time filtered more than, usual,
6 it has been from unavoidable accidents, not in his p^wer
' to remedy; (g) that there were no just oreslrons given
' for complaints of ti&fick (offering in the General nef
' pital for want of his care ; that no malignant, infectious,
' pestilential diseases or any uncomm- n mortality ever pre
' vailed in any part of the General Hospital, uader Bodor
' Morgues direction, though such diseases and great fatali
, ty have predominated where ne bad no charge; (b)
' that the uneasiness and general datoors which have at
* any time arisen, and beenfevelled (tho' unjufliy) against
' the department in general, related to the want of care,
' and.offuitable provision, for those who were retained in
' their regiments, and not reported to the General Hof
' pital ; that they h^ve been witnesses to hig constant ap
' plication (i) and attention to the duties of his Ration,
' in which his diligence, assiduity, care of, and humanity
' towards the sick, were abundantly evident, (i) that
' the principal causes of the fufferings of the sick, in the
* campaign of 1776, proceeded from the regimental sick,
' not being proper reported to the General Hospital, and
6 in feme initiates, to the unavoidable scarcity of particu
' hr medicines and other flores, which could not be pro
' cured at all times, in faffpent quantities, and not, so
' far as ever c^me under their notice, to any want of care
6 and attention in the Director General,), but priori,al
' iy from the repeated movements of the army, wluch er
' poled the sick and wounded to fufferings that could ...
' noways be remedied under those circumfiances (.w:, and
' are firmly of opinions if Dr. Morgan did not, that no
' person whatever, adin; in the Ration of Dirtier Gene.
' ral, could possibly have given universal fat sfacjion (?:)"
The Certificates from which theabove is taken, may be
seen in the Appendix, firmed by
John Warren, now Superintemdant of the General Hos
pitals at Boston.
Samuel Adams, Senior Surgeon o f the General Hofpi
t:l at Danbury,
Charles McKnight, Surgeon General in the American
army.
Philip Turaer, Surgeon General of the General Hospi
tal,
William Burnett, Phyfichm General of the .Army.
William Euflis, Sturgeon in the General Hospital.
Isaac Ledyard, late Apothecary General, now Assistant
Deputy Direct r General.
Noah Cooke, Chaplain to the General Hospital.
Frederick Ripely, , Surgeons in the General
Ebenezer Crhby, ) °
Barnabas Briney, '
Samuel B< mehard,
John D. Blanchard, j
Abfatom Russel,
James Miller Church, r 1
> HofoUal Mates.
Daniel Jenifer, jun. {
Joseph Loring,l
Alarms "Millet,
Jofian Bardett, J
John de 'a Mater, Clerk arid Pay-Matter.
James Davkhon, Storekeeper to the General Hospital.
His Excellency General Wethington remarks, that ' at
* one time the clamours were loud agaiaft the department
< in general" It may be easily feenfrom the teflimony
of the Regimental Surgeons tl emfelves, already given,
that those clamours were not excited again'ft me, as Di
re&or General, but through the ftdes of the department in
general,, against the resolves of Congress, of July 17, and
Gib bar 9, 1776, by which Congress ordered, ' that no
fibres fhotild be iffoed from the General Hospital to the
Regimental Surgeons, and that no Regimental Hospitals
(rs) Dr. Warren's certified copy of his orders, and Dr.
McKnight's certificate.
(6) Dr. Warren's Dr. McKnighAs and Dr. Adams's
certificates.
' were communicated through me to the General, and car
' ried into orders, and also in collecting stores and medi
' cines. Dr Morgan's integrity in his accounts and in
.' dufiry, I never heard queftiened in the army. I can
' fay with justice to Dr. Morgan, thathe was not fpend
' iug his time in pleasure or avocations foreign from the
' public service. The ' expenditures, the resources, th,e
' difeipline, the encouragement for Surgeons and Mates,
' were very different from what they have been since. We
' were an unfuccefsful retreating army. Mens minds
' were soured by difap,ointment and hardfhlps. Stores
' and conveniences failed, and many difficulties occurred
' which, were ascribed-to the Director-General that would
' have happened under any man. Every department had
' its share of blame, because every one was willing to
' transfer his own share to other people. It was a young
' army, unused to discipline, and of which the Militia
' formed a confider^ble part& At the retreat from New,
' York Dr. Morgan took all the necessary steps to save
' the medicines and stores; which were then invaluable to
' us, and there was less loft in his department than any
' otherr. ,'JOSERH REED?
The Honorable Majar General Mifflin, being Quarter-
Mafler-General of the army at that time, also declares @3
follows:
Reading, January 26, 1779.
' To whom it may-concern.
' The fubferiber, having had many opportunities of ob
' serving the cundua of Dr. John Morgan, late Diredor
' General of the Hcfpitals, and Phyficrpi in Chief to the
' army of the United States, and having frequently in
' the campaigns of 1775 and 1776, as Quarter- Mafter-
' General applied to the said Director - General for his aid
' and assistance, do declare, that I always observed, in
' the said Director - General, great ability, apd most re
' markable attention to his duties : And Ido not recollect
' at any time, preceding his difmiffion, to have heard any
' complaint in t; ? rimy against the said Director ; nor do
6 I believe that he is juflly chargeable with any of the
' neglefls ard blunders, which took price in the depart
' ment of the Hospital in the winter of 17 6
'THOMAS MIFFLIN?
The Honorable General Putnam tas furnifhed me with
the following certificate;
Hartford, November ?o, 1778.
I take this opportunity to inform whom it may concern,
'that so far as I was capable of observing, Dr. Morgan,
while Director - General of the Hospitals and Physician in
Chief to the American Armies, paid particular attention
to the duties of his office ; —that he always appeared ready
to attend and assist such officers and soldiers as called on
him for advice ; —that he was diligent and alert in times
of expeßed attacks.—And further, I am of opinion that
the censure which has fallen upon Dr. Morgan, arose more
from thenegle& and inattention of otner officers, than
from any other cause. (0)
ISRAEL PUTNAN, Major General.
hould ^ allowed' in the neighbourhood of the General
Hospital " However, I was the only person who fuffered
from those resolves, because I chose to ffera a torrent of op
position and clamour from a particular class of refractory
officers, rather than recede from my indifpenfeble duty
in paying Arid obedience to the resolves of Cengrefs.
And well am I rewarded for it. His Excellency further
observes, 'that the rail cable condition of the sick in all
6 quarters is a f;R too well known and remembered." Now
it is plain from the feque) of this letter, as w^ll as from the
certificates and testimony of all the officers, as well Gene
ral officers as those in the Hofedai Department, already
Rated, that this observation did refer only to those sick,
whom the Regimental Surgeons and their officers chose so
retain under their own cate, and obflinately refufed to
fend to the General Hospital, where they could be well ac
commodated, that they might not give up their plea for
drawing floras from die General Hospital, and for eftab
blifhihg Regimental Hospitals in Camp, and who, for the
Take of carrying their point, fuffered their sick soldiers to
lie on the.dole! ground without cover and without blankets.
It is a fa& well known, that those sick men whom the Re
gimental Surgeons sent off from Camp, by brigades, rather
than report for the Hospital Surgeons, to take charge of
them, and feattered thro' the country in all quarters, under
the care of a Regimental Surgeon, and an officer from each
brigide, to whom the General allowed a sum of money to
defray the expence, were reduced to a miserable condition,
because they had neither Commissary nor Quarter. Master
to provide for them, nor any means of accommodating
them in a suitable m nn^r for sick perfens, ?
Notwithstanding, as the General goes on to remark,
' there were then, as there have been since, contentions
' be^een the Ho)) it9} and Regimental Surgeon; reffeefting
' their line of duty, by which the service hath ever fuffer
' ed more or lets,' his Excellency 'does trie the justice tp
declare, ' Ido not recollect that you were charged with
f personal inattention or wa^t of adiyfty.' B uttkis would
certainly have been the case, had room been given for fach
a charge. ' I can with truth, pr^ reel's the General, ac
' quit you of any disobedience, or negieft of my General
' orders, at' any time. On the contrary, adds he, you air
' ways appeared ready to execute them, and frequently
' furuifhed me with difedions to be given in orders for
' the better accommodation of the sick?
, See General Washington's letter in the Appendix.
To sum up for once what his Excellency President Reed
has declared on this fubjed at length, in his certificate of
January 5, 1776.
'I am of opinion, fays he, from what I observed (hav
' ing at that time the honor of being Adjutant General of
' the arm,) that Doctor Morgan difeovered very great
' industry and application to the Medical Department,
' both in forming rules and regulations for the sick, which
(0) In my memorial to General Waftington, which I
drew up and sent on the firft notice of clamors being ex
cited against, and steps privately taken to remove me, I
used these words, ' I request your Excellency's order for
' a Court of Inquiry how the sick have been taken care c¥
' in the General Hospital, composed of officers bed ac
' quainted witn the rulesand discipline of war, and with
' Hofpttal matters, by which it may be known in what
' manner, agreeable to the eftabliihment of our General
6 Hospital by authority of Congress, and the inftruftions
' I have received from time to time from Congress and
' your Excellency, and the information and assistance I
' have repeatedly applied for, provision has been made
' for the sick, that the nature of military Hospital in ge-
' neral, and of ours in particular, may be afeertained, and
' if the sick h^ve differed more than was inevitable from
' the nature, peculiar hardthips and difficulties of last
' campaign, the causes may be known, and a seasonable
' remedy applied, and those on whom any imputations
' have fallen, either of , geg„lea or mifmanagertient, may
' have an opportunity of vindicating their proceedings be
' fore a proper tribunal.' It was too late and out of the
, General's power. I was dismissed , the innocent fuffered;
the guiity escaped and was honored.
Port of Philadelphia, Pemghania, ff.
TO ALL whom it may concern.
IT O T(C Eis hereby given, That a Court of Ad-
X^ miralty will be held at the Court-house in the city
or Philadelphia, on the twenty-third day of July next, at
len o'clock in the forenoon of tie Arae day, then a.nd
there to try the truth of the faaTalledged in the bill of
Samuel Tucker and Seth Harding, Enquires, (who as
wed, &c,) against the flcop or vessel called the William,
lately commanded by John Afhburner, her tackle, ap
parel, furniture and cargo : To the end and intent that
the owner or owners, or any person concerned therein,
may appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the
fame should not be condemned according to the prayer
of the said bill. E, order oj the Judge,
June 29. ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
The Honorable Major General Gates has also forward
ed me tre following ;
S I R, Bofiort, December 2, 1778.
' If my report of your services as Director of the Hos,
' rivals of the United States can be ufelul to you, I am
' ready to declare, as far as I was acquainted- therewith,
' that rom the time you succeeded Dr. Church in the
' winter, 1775, to the latter end of June, 1776, (when I
6 was sent to command the northern army) your conduct
' was such as justly gained you the estei m and appro
' ration of the Generals and Officers in hlgh
' command.'HOßATlO GATES.
' To Dodor Morgan?
Dr. Warren writes thus;
Boflon, September 4, 1777, and November 4, 1778.
'Thofe persons who have had an opportunity of perut
' ing your publications in vindication of your condud,
' are fully persuaded that no man in public service was more
' indefatiguably attentive to the business of his Ration, or
' Rudied more to approve himfelf to the eye of Congress ;
' and that the letters you repeatedly wrote to men in
' places of fruft, with the mos puffing fofetations jor an
' immediate attention to the enumerable difficulties that pre
'fentea' themselves to you, in the execution of your trufl, and
' the little notice taken of them, would amply evince the
' propriety and integrity of your conduct To withhold
' my testimony on this occasion, in whgteAer light it may
' be viewed by others, I Ihould look on myfelf with an
' horror equal to what I conceive would be produced by
' being a fpedator of premeditated murder. The Honora
' ble Congress, I doubt not, will do you justice. For
'my own part, I Riad never be afraid to do jufiice to a
' character that I think injured ; —and as to yourfelf, be
' assured l shall gyer esteem it an honor to serve you so
6 far as lays in my power. 'JOHN WARREN.
' To Doctor Morgan?
( To be continued )
Forks, Egg-Harbour, June 25.
SIXTY DOLLARS REWARD.
DAN AWAV last night, from cn board the prize
floep Retrieve, a Negro boy named PETER, a
native of Virginia about sixteen years of ape, pretty
tall and Lender ; had on a blue coaf, oznabrig fliirt and
trowfers, and an old hat. Whoever takes up and fe.
cures the laid boy in any gaol so that he may be had
again, or delivers him at the Forks of Little Egg-Har
bour, shall have the above reward and all reasonable
charges. JOSEPH BALL.
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN DU N L A P,
A quantity of MUSKET and CANNON
CARTRIDGE PAPER
Port of Philadelphia, PennfyLvania, ff.
TO ALL whom it may concern?
NOTICE is hereby given, Th?ra Court of Ad
miralty will be held at, the Court house in the cit,
of Philadelphia, on the twenty third day of July next, at
1 en c clock m the forenoon of the fame day, then and
there to try the truth of the faffs alledged in the bill of
Samueklucker and Seth Harding, Enquires, .(who ?s
well, &:.) against the ichooner or veflel called the Pat
fey, lately commanded by John Papley, her tackle, ap
puel, furniture and cargo; To the end and intent that
the owner or owners, or any person concerned therein,
may appear and (hew cause, if any they have, why the
fame should not be conderaned'accorcing to the prayer
of the laid bill. B, order of the Judge,
J un e z 9. > ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
Forks, Egg-Harbour, June 27.
Io be SOLD by Public Pendu^
On Monday the fifth day of July, at Ten o'clock in the
forenoon, at the house o' Henry Thorn,
The Schooner A DVENTUR E,
BUR THEN about seventy tons, with part of her
CARGO, confuting of about thirty h-gfheads of
Molasses, about 4oelb. of heft Cotton, five hogiheads of
Sugar, and a small quantity 0: Rum. The money to be
paid on the spot, as no credit c n pnffibly be given.
JOSEPH BALL.
TO BE SOLD
To RETAILERS ONLY,
BO H EA TEA by the chefl, just imported, at
41. 108. per lb. and Weft India RUM by the
hogffiead, at 6!. ss. par gallon. Apply to
JOHN S H E E.