Charles McKnight
BIRTH
Oct 10, 1750
Cranbury Township, New Jersey
DEATH
November 16, 1791
New York City, New York
FAMILY
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McKnight, Charles
(1750-1791)
Charles McKnight was a physician and surgeon in the Continental Army’s Hospital Department. He served with Washington’s army, rose to chief hospital physician for the Middle Department, and after the war became a professor of anatomy and surgery at Columbia College.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Trinity Church | 89 Broadway, New York, NY 10006 | PARK |
DIED:
New York City, New York
Nov 16, 1791
Charles McKnight was born on Oct 10, 1750 in Cranbury Township, New Jersey. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Charles McKnight with work or public activity as a doctor, soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Charles McKnight died on Nov 16, 1791 in New York City, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.