1Enclosure: Lemuel Hayward to William Gordon, 24 October 1775 (Adams Papers)
I have attended the Hospital ever since about the middle of May last by Order from Genl. Thomas, but am unable to ascertain the Number I attended or the Event till June 10th. since which Time Doctr. Willm. Aspenwall and myself have attended not less than six hundred Patients as Provincial Surgeons and out of that Number have not lost more than forty. This I have collected from the Hospital...
2To John Adams from Lemuel Hayward, 1 November 1775 (Adams Papers)
The small Acquaintance I have had with your Honor emboldens me to write you on an Affair which has given me no small degree of Perplexity, out of which I hope your Influence, and wonted Benevolence will relieve me. What I have respect to is the fixing of Surgeons in this Hospital. Ever since Lexington Battle I have been wholly engaged in the Service of my Country as a Surgeon; on that Day I...
3To John Adams from Lemuel Hayward, 16 December 1775 (Adams Papers)
By the hand of Dr. Morgan I had the Pleasure of receiving yours of Nov. 13. and thank you not only for the Honour you did me in writing, but for your kind Disposition towards me discoverable in it. Agreable to your Advice upon the Arival of Docter Morgan I waited on him, and find him the Person you represented a well bred Man of Sense. He appears pleased with those Houses under my Care and...
4To John Adams from Lemuel Hayward, 23 January 1776 (Adams Papers)
Ever since your Arrival to the Camp my colleague Doctr. Aspinwall has been confined by a Fever, which has doubled my Service in the Hospital and hereby rendered it impossible for me to do myself the Honor of waiting on you. I hope therefore you will rather impute it to Necessity than to the Want of either Gratitude or Complaisance. I sincerely thank you for the Honor you did me in writing, but...