American Revolutionary soldier, born near Enniskillen, Ireland, on the 3rd of November 1741. He graduated from Dublin University, and served in the navy as surgeon during the war between Great Britain and France (1756–63). In 1764 he moved to America and settled in Pennsylvania; served in the Colonial army during the Revolution, rising to the rank of brigadier-general in 1779; was on the board of court-martial which tried General Charles Lee in 1778; in 1781 had command on the western frontier; was a member of the Continental Congress in 1786; and was one of a commission appointed to settle the accounts of the United States with the several states. He was a member of the Third Congress; afterward moved to Philadelphia, where he was in command of military stores, and was president of the State Society of the Cincinnati at the time of his death on the 29th of July 1804.
