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About Benjamin Church
Benjamin Church (August 24, 1734 – 1778) was effectively the first Surgeon General of the United States Army, serving as the "Chief Physician & Director General" of the Medical Service of the Continental Army from July 27, 1775, to October 17, 1775. He was also active in Boston's Sons of Liberty movement in the years before the war. However, early in the American Revolution, Church was also sending secret information to General Thomas Gage, the British commander, and when one of his letters into Boston was intercepted, he was tried and convicted of "communicating with the enemy". He was jailed but eventually released, likely dying somewhere in the Caribbean Sea in 1778.
Everything about Benjamin Church →- Occupation
- military physician, surgeon, spy
- Position held
- Surgeon General of the United States Army
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 24, 1734, 1734
- Died
- 1778