In a message dated 3/16/2004 1:44:17 PM Mountain Standard Time, donavan@netins.net writes: > Benjamin Rush, Doctor of Physick, of Philadelphia, PA and Julia, his wife > to > John Beatty, Esq., of the Western Precinct of Somerset co., NJ. Don't know how many of you recognize this name, but Dr. Benjamin Rush was one of the biggest names in Colonial and Revolutionary-period medicine. There's a hospital in the Philadelphia area named after him now. Doris Stanford (L-130B) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr