1To George Washington from Major General Charles Lee, 5 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
...McClurg (c.1746–1823) was one of Virginia’s most eminent physicians, having studied medicine in Edinburgh, Paris, and London before returning home in 1773 to practice in Williamsburg. On 6 April 1776 McClurg appealed to Thomas Jefferson to use his influence in the Continental Congress to have him appointed physician to the Continental troops in Virginia, “an office that I desire Exceedingly”...
2To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 11 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
, 7:557–58, and William Fleming to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July, in