Husband Dr. John Cochran 1 2 3
Born: 1 Sep 1730 - Sadsbury, Chester Co, PA 1 2 4
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Died: 6 Apr 1807 - Palatine, Montgomery Co, NY 1 2 4
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Father: James Cochran ( -1766) 1 5 6
Mother: Ann Rowan ( - ) 3 7
Marriage: 4 Dec 1760 - Albany, Albany Co, NY 1 2 4
Wife Gertrude Schuyler 2 4
Born: 1725 8
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Died: Mar 1813 8
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Father: [Father] Schuyler ( - )
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Other Spouse: Peter Schuyler ( -Bef 1760) 1 4
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1 M James Cochran 8
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2 M Walter Livingston Cochran 8
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. John Cochran
He was educated at the grammar-school of Dr. Francis Alison. He received his professional training in Lancaster, under Dr. Thompson. At the outbreak of the French and Indian war young Cochran had but recently finished his medical studies. He entered the service, however, as a surgeon's mate in the hospital department, and remained with the Northern army until the close of the war. Dr. Cochran, together with Maj. (afterwards Gen.) Philip Schuyler, joined Bradstreet when he marched against Fort Frontenac in the summer of 1758.
After his marriage Dr. Cochran removed to New Brunswick, New Jersey, and there continued to practice his profession, becoming one of the founders of the New Jersey Medical Society in 1766, and in November, 1769, succeeding Dr. Burnet as its president. During the close of the winter of 1776 he offered his services as a volunteer in the hospital department, and Washington recommended his name to the favorable notice of Congress in a letter written in the beginning of 1777. He spoke of Dr. Cochran's services as a volunteer, and of his experience during the French war. On April 7, 1777, Congress resumed the consideration of a report on the hospitals, and plans modeled after those of the British army, having been proposed by Dr. Cochran and Dr. William Shippen, and approved by Gen. Washington, were adopted that day. On the 11th of the same month, in pursuance of His Excellency's recommendation, Dr. Cochran was selected for the position of physician and surgeon-general of the army of the Middle Department. In 1781 (January) Congress conferred upon Dr. Cochran the unsolicited appointment of director-general of the hospitals of the United States, in place of Dr. William Shippen, who had resigned.
He was on terms of intimacy with Washington, Lafayette, Wayne, Paul Jones, and other eminent contemporaries, and much of his private correspondence was preserved, showing the closeness of the ties which bound him to those great men. To him Washington presented his camp furniture; he received from "Mad Anthony" the latter's sword, the silver hilt of which was melted into goblets, and thus came down to his descendants, while Lafayette sent him from France a gold watch of delicate movement. Upon the formation of the Society of the Cincinnati, Dr. Cochran became a member from the state of New York, and in 1790 President Washington appointed him commissioner of loans for the State of New York.
Notes: Marriage
They were married by Dominic Westerts, of the Reformed Dutch Church at Albany, New York.