May 27, 2020 Founders & Patriots
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Dr. Albigence Waldo (1750-1794), autograph document signed, 1 page (7 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.), dated September 22, 1784. Dr. Waldo, as Secretary of the Windham Medical Society, attest that Dr. Josiah Brigham (younger brother of Elijah) "has this day been examined in Anatomy, and the Theory and Practice of Physick...and being Approved, was admitted to the Society, the certificate being rendered in a beautiful copperplate hand by Waldo, clearly an accomplished calligrapher. Waldo served as clerk in Captain Samuel McClelland's Woodstock company and was subsequently appointed surgeon's mate of the Huntington's 8th Connecticut Regiment, but was discharged due to ill health in September 1775. On December 14, 1776, he was appointed surgeon of the 1st Connecticut, a regiment raised largely in New London County and stationed at Peekskill, New York, until ordered to join the army in Pennsylvania in September of 1777. In the battle of Germantown the regiment was engaged on the left flank, and suffered some loss in killed, wounded, and missing, before wintering with the army at Valley Forge. Waldo labored excessively to treat the suffering and diseased soldiery during that encampment and his famous journal describing his experiences, is now in the Rhode Island Historical Society. Ill health again compelled Surgeon Waldo to retire from the service on October 1, 1779. He relocated to Massachusetts, marrying Abigail Bucklin and established successful practice in Windham. CONDITION: light toning along the vertical fold lines with one small water stain of 1/4" diameter, otherwise bright and clean. JLK
Provenance: by descent in the General Artemas Ward-Elijah Brigham Family until 2012; private collection to present.