Pennsylvania Packet of 1780. These items are the aftermath of an unpleasant feud which developed between Dr. William Shippen, Jr., on one hand and Dr. Benjamin Rush and Dr. John Morgan on the other. These three physicians were the leading medical men of Revolutionary Philadelphia, and all had received their

, 1757, the child was baptised John George, in memory of another son who had died in infancy. He was baptised in the stone building of the First Reformed Church by Philip William Otterbein, who later became the founder of the United Brethren in Christ. He doubtless attended school with his brothers in