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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: December 26, 2018
Caption: William Brown's Gravestone in Pohick Church Cemetery
Additional Description:
In Memory of
William Brown M.D.
Formerly Physician General
to the Hospital of the United States
who died on the 11th of Jan'y 1792
in the 44th Year of his Age.
this Tablet is inscribed
by
his affectionate & afflicted widow.

His zeal & fidelity as a patriot
his patience, diligence and skill as a physician,
his benevolence courtesy & integrity as a Man,
Secured him
the applause of his country,
The honor & emoluments of his profession,
the respect of the wealthy,
and
the veneration of the poor.

Let
the grateful witness of his virtue in domestic life
and
that as a Husband, Father and Master,
he was tender, instructive and humane
that he live without guile,
and died without reproach.
Submitted: December 27, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p458402
File Size: 1.388 Megabytes

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