John Young emigrated from Ireland to America in 1729 with a group led by Charles Clinton of County Longford.
As Covenanters, the Clinton family had escaped from Scotland to Ireland in the seventeenth century (New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 1882, Vol.
It is unclear when Mary Crawford joined them in Little Britain or whether she was among the passengers of the George and Anne, although it seems likely that she emigrated with her cousins (New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 1882, Vol.
After demonstrating much intellectual brilliance as a child, Thomas Young was apprenticed to a local physician and then began his own medical practice in Amenia in Dutchess County in 1753.
[1] In August 1758 Young was indicted in the Crum Elbow Precinct of Dutchess County, New York, for speaking and publishing "blasphemous words" concerning the Christian religion.
Ingrafting was considered a heresy by New England clergy and punishable by law, if not conducted with the consent of the town selectman.
In 1764, Allen insisted that Young inject him with the virus on the Salisbury meeting house steps to prove whether or not ingrafting worked.
[1] Young invested in a real estate venture with John Henry Lydius, which subsequently failed.
In 1773 Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush and member of the Sons of Liberty authored a diatribe inveighing against British Tea and its harmful properties, both physical and political.
At the time he was addressing a crowd at the Old South Meeting House on the negative health effects of tea drinking.
[6] In 1774 Young, having received death threats (although for his political or religious views is unclear) left Boston for Newport.