Robert Hale (doctor)
Robert Hale (12 February 1702 (o.s.) – 20 March 1767) was a
military officer from Beverly, Massachusetts
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Biography
Hale graduated from
New York to adopt measures for the general defence, and in 1755 was a commissioner to New Hampshire to plan an expedition against the French. He was appointed sheriff of Essex County, Massachusetts, in 1761, and was for 13 years a member of the legislature
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Notes
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References
- Wagner, Robert L. (1974). "Hale, Robert". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- Stone, Edwin Martin (1843). History of Beverly, civil and ecclesiastical, from its settlement in 1630 to 1842. Boston: J. Munroe. pp. 38–52. Here he is referred to as Robert Hale Jr.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.