Queen Anne's County

James Davidson                         

James Davidson was born at Aberdeen, Scotland in 1743. He received his MD from the Royal College of Aberdeen in 1769. Davidson emigrated to Queenstown, Md in 1771. He was an attending physician at the Queen Anne's County Almshouse from 1792 to 1804. He died at My Lord's Gift in Queen Anne's County in June of 1811.

James Davidson’s son, also named James, was a pupil of Dr. Ashton Alexander of Baltimore, MD and graduated from the University of Maryland in 1827.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

James Davidson served during the Revolutionary War as Surgeon in the Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Intantry. He married Elizabeth Blake… and resided at Cedar Dale, his farm near Queenstown. Mrs. Davidson died in 1802 and Dr. Davidson married Mrs. DeCourcy, whose first husband was the proprietor of “My Lord’s Gift.” Dr. Davidson lived there with the former Mrs. DeCourcy until his death and is buried there.

     Source: Colonial Families

 

Robert Goldsborough              

Robert Goldsborough, one of the founders of MedChi, was born at Four Square, Talbot County, Maryland on December 4, 1772. He was a son of John Goldsborough, and a member of an old (even at that time) Eastern Shore family.

Goldsborough became the President of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty from 1826 to 1836. He was an old-fashioned gentleman, very fine looking, precise and primly-dressed in the old style. He drove a chaise and horses. He married Mrs. Henrietta Nicholson Bracco, widow of Dr. John Bracco. He left one son.

Robert Goldsborough died in Centerville, Maryland on September 30, 1849.

The Goldsborough family was one of the oldest on the Eastern Shore, mostly settling around Easton and Talbot County. For more than 40 years, this Dr. Robert Goldsborough lived and practiced in Centreville, in Queen Anne’s County, north of Talbot County. Although there are a number of Goldsboroughs named in the early accounts of these two counties, none of them match up with this man, given the dates of his birth and death, and the name of his wife. Additionally, a number of Goldsboroughs were physicians, and our Annals has brief biographies of nine of them.

From 1950 The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge:

September 30, 1950 – In Centreville, MD, Dr. Robert Goldsborough, aged 77. For more than 40 years, he was a practitioner of medicine in Queen Anne’s County, and for many years, was President of the Medical & Chirurgical Society [sic] of Maryland, a station which he filled with great dignity and credit.

From the Maryland Historical Society waymarker:

The Site of the Goldsborough House, Circa 1798. By that year, a two-story brick house, measuring 40 by 24 feet, and described as “not yet fully compleat” was built on a four-acre lot of “Chesterfield.” Deeded in 1792 from Mary Nicholson to her daughter, Henrietta. Henrietta’s husband, Dr. John Bracco, died and by 1799, she had married Dr. Robert Goldsborough. The property descended through the Goldsborough and McKenney families. The house was demolished in 1963.

John Thomas                     

John Thomas, was a trustee of Queen Anne's County Almshouse in 1805. He resided in Queen Anne County. Died, 1821 in Queen Anne’s County.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

The Thomases were typical members of Tidewater Maryland's 18th and early 19th century society. All of the men were planters, with the possible exception of Dr. John Thomas, although it is likely that he farmed also. 

A well-known man in the county from the third quarter of the eighteenth century, Dr. Thomas owned several lots in Centreville and may have desired to move to a country home whose style would reflect his position. The Federal-style Thomas House sat on 106 acres of land. The Thomas House property remained in his family until 1928.

Source: MEDUSA Maryland Cultural Resource Information System

 

Samuel Thompson                    

Samuel Thompson was born at Medical Hill in Queen Anne's County, Md. in 1777. He “graduated at Philadelphia.” He was married to Mary Adeline Thompson of Philadelphia in February 20 1803, and married for a second time to Sarah Smythe on September 15, 1811. He had a hospital for inoculation at Medical Hill. Samuel Thompson died September 6, 1844.

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)

 

John Wells                                    Queen Anne's

John Wells was a Founder of the Faculty in 1799. He moved to Baltimore in 1802. There is no further information.  

Source: Medical Annals of Maryland (1899)