Dr. William Rumney (d. 1783), who was born and trained in England, served as a surgeon with the British army in the French and Indian War and settled in Alexandria in 1763.
“[Diary entry: 3 January 1768],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0003-0001-0003. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 2, 14 January 1766 – 31 December 1770, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, p. 31.]