Robert Hale (doctor)
Robert Hale (12 February 1702 (o.s.) – 20 March 1767) was a 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. 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). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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