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Jeffries, John, 1745-1819

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Personal name headingJeffries, John, 1745-1819
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Variant(s)Jeffries, Doctor, (John), 1745-1819
Associated placeBoston (Mass.) England
Birth date1744-02-05
Death date1819-09-16
Place of birthBoston (Mass.)
Place of deathBoston (Mass.)
Profession or occupationPhysicians
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Found inHis A narrative of the two aerial voyages of Doctor Jeffries with Mons. Blanchard, 1786: t.p. (Doctor Jeffries)
BM (Jeffries, John, M.D., of London)
Wallis, P.J. Eighteenth century medics, 1988 (Jeffries, John, MD(A), 1745-1819; surgeon, Bath)
LC in RLIN, 08-12-92 (hdg.: Jeffries, John, 1745-1819)
A tribute to John Jeffries, M.D., 1986: page 2 (first American born aeronaut; born in 1744 in Boston, Jeffries received a medical degree from Aberdeen University in Scotland, then entered into practice in his native Boston)
Wikipedia, Sept. 30, 2022: Jeffries page (John Jeffries (5 February 1744 - 16 September 1819) was an American physician, scientist, and military surgeon with the British Army in Nova Scotia and New York during the American Revolution. He is best known for accompanying French inventor Jean-Pierre Blanchard on his 1785 balloon flight across the English Channel; private practice in Boston, staying there until his death in 1819)
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