Anne Arundel County

 Richard Hopkins                        

Richard Hopkins received his MD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1785. (There is a Hopkins in the Catalogue of that year.) He was very eccentric and had the reputation of effecting some miraculous cures. Of Anne Arundel County, Md. Died June 22, 1832 at age 71.  

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

The following correspondence is taken from the remains of the letter book of Dr. Richard Hopkins. [Thomas Book, 354].

But little seems to be known of Dr. Hopkins career, and Dr. Cordell in his Medical Annals of Maryland records that he was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, 1785 (?) and one of the Founders of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. "He was very eccentric and had the reputation of effecting some miraculous cures. He died about 1830-35, at a great age."

From the letter to his mother, dated Jan. 7, 1784, in which he says " I must quit this part of the world as soon as my education is finished, which will be in the Spring," it would appear that he received his diploma in 1784. The letter giving the account of his graduation is only a fragment, and undated, but from internal evidence, his Alma Mater was unquestionably the University of Pennsylvania.

He married Hannah Hammond on March 2, 1789, and had several children. In the letter book, there is a long lament, dated 1830, on the death of one of his daughters, who died at the age of 26. It is interesting to learn that in spite of the heavy handicap of serious ill health "he died at a great age."

Source: Maryland Historical Society Magazine: Volume 23 Issue 3 (1928) Letters from a Maryland Medical Student and His Friends

 

William Murray                                      

William Murray was born about 1751 in Chestertown. Pupil and partner of his brother, James Murray. He moved from Annapolis about 1799 to West River, where he practiced. Dr. Murray served in the Annapolis Hospital, but no other military service can be found. He was a member of the South River Club; a founder of the Medico-Chirurgical Faculty. He died in 1820.

      Source: Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899); Maryland Historical Society Magazine, Spring 1929.

 

Thomas Noble Stockett                          

Thomas Noble Stockett was born near Annapolis on July 12, 1747. In the Revolution, he first served in Col. Thomas Ewing's Battalion. He was the Assistant Surgeon in Col. William Richardson's Battalion, of Flying Camp in 1776, and later in General Smallwood's command. His health became impaired at Valley Forge and he returned home. He was later employed in a recruiting camp and settled after the War near Annapolis. He had a large practice and was a practitioner of note. He died at Locust Grove (also known as Obligation), South River, Anne Arundel County, MD  on May 16, 1802.

      Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

Dr. Thomas Noble Stockett (1747-1802) was well educated, scholarly; he joined the "Sons of Freedom" movement, was commissioned Surgeon with the Maryland Line and served at Valley Forge where hardships impaired his health. Returning to “Obligation Farm” to recruit soldiers locally, he later resumed his medical practice and raised blooded horses.

      Source: Medusa: Maryland Cultural Resource Database

Thomas Noble Stockett was well educated, and devoted to study all of his life, so far as his active duties permitted. He selected the medical profession, and upon obtaining his degree, commenced the practice, which soon became larger than he could attend to. To this practice he devoted himself to such extent that the management of his estate had to be entrusted to his wife, who gave to the work very successful attention. 

The pay of a physician, in a country practice, however large, was not very remunerative, and his books showed he was by no means a diligent collector. Besides this, many of the families he attended were his, or his wife's relatives, and they availed themselves of this connection, to ignore, or very grudgingly to settle, their accounts. His receipts, however, from his profession, and the crops from his farm, under the management of his wife, sufficed to enable him to raise, educate and provide for his large family.

      Source: findagrave.com/thomas-noble-stockett

 

Charles A. Warfield                                

Charles Alexander Warfield was born in Howard County, MD on December 3, 1751. He was a son of Azel Warfield. Warfield was Captain of a Cavalry Company, and leader in the burning of the cargo of tea on the Peggy Stewart in the harbor of Annapolis on October 19, 1774. He was President College of Medicine of Maryland at the University of Maryland in 1812.

He was the first to propose a separation from the mother country. His father, when warned by Mr Carroll that such rash words might bring him trouble, replied “My son knows what he is saying and I agree with him.” He led his neighbors to Annapolis, drawing them into line before the now famous Peggy Stewart House. He called Mr. Stewart to accept one of two propositions “You must either go with me and apply the torch to your own vessel, or hang before your own door.” His manner of expression, though courteous, carried the conviction that it would be safer to accept the former, and Major Warfield stood beside Mr. Stewart when he applied the torch [to the ship Peggy Stewart and her cargo of tea].

Dr Warfield died at Bushy Park, Anne Arundel County (now Howard County), MD on January 29, 1813.

      Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

 

Wilson Waters                               

Wilson Waters was born in Anne Arundel County Md in 1758. He was a Surgeon's Mate in the Hospital Department of the American Navy in the Revolution. Dr. Waters opened his practice in 1784 in a building on School Street owned by Elizabeth Chisholm who was his sister. He was pensioned by the Navy in 1832 for his services as a Surgeon’s Mate. Dr. Waters died at Wrighton Farm in Anne Arundel County on February 5, 1836. 

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)