Encyclopedia Brunoniana

1778

  • On May 25, 1778, while he was home on a visit to Warren, he was captured by British troops and confined in a guard-ship at Newport for a month.Revolutionary War
  • Ebenezer David 1772 was a chaplain in Colonel Varnum’s regiment and died after his discharge in 1778.Revolutionary War
  • On March of 1776 William Rogers was appointed chaplain of Pennsylvania’s three battalions, and was promoted to a brigade chaplain in the Continental army in June 1778.Rogers, William
  • In his petition Levi Wheaton mentioned that he had continued his studies alone until 1778 when he began the study of "physick" at the military hospital in Rhode Island, and had later "put himself under the direction of a Gentleman of the faculty."Wheaton, Levi