• Source: Robert Hale (doctor)

      • Robert Hale (12 February 1702 (o.s.) – 20 March 1767) was a medical doctor and military officer from Beverly, Massachusetts.


      Biography


      Hale graduated from Harvard in 1721 and later practiced as a physician in Beverly. He commanded a regiment under William Pepperrell at the Siege of Louisbourg in 1745. In 1747, he was appointed by the legislature of Massachusetts a commissioner to New York to adopt measures for the general defence, and in 1755 was a commissioner to New Hampshire to plan an expedition against the French. He was appointed sheriff of Essex County, Massachusetts, in 1761, and was for 13 years a member of the legislature.


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      References


      Wagner, Robert L. (1974). "Hale, Robert". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
      Stone, Edwin Martin (1843). History of Beverly, civil and ecclesiastical, from its settlement in 1630 to 1842. Boston: J. Munroe. pp. 38–52. Here he is referred to as Robert Hale Jr.
      Attribution
      This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Hale, John" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

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