Armand John DeRosset Jr.

This large three story home stood on the northwest corner of Market and Third Streets.

Born: 17 Nov 1767 Wilmington, New Hanover, NC

Married: 01 Aug 1799 Katherine Fullerton

Died: 01 Apr 1859 Wilmington, New Hanover, NC

Buried: Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, New Hanover, NC

FATHER

Moses John DeRosset

MOTHER

Mary Ivy

CHILDREN with Mary Fullerton

1. Moses John DeRosset b. 11 Feb 1796

2. Louis H. DeRosset

CHILDREN with Catherine Fullerton

1. Catherine Gabrielle DeRosset b. 1800

2. Magdalene Mary DeRosset b. 1806

3. Armand John DeRosset  b. 1807

4. Elizabeth Ann DeRosset b. 1809

5. Henry Toomer DeRosset

6. Mary Jane DeRosset

The two children, Armand John DeRosset and Moses John DeRosset,  were mentioned in the will of their aunt, Magdalene Mary DeRosset Toomer

SOURCE:  A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography, 1920  pg 336

"De Rosset, Armand John, the elder, (1767-1859), graduated from Princeton, then the college of New Jersey, in 1785 and received his medical degree in 1790 from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a pupil and a great friend of Benjamin Rush; there is preserved an interesting correspondence between them. Dr. De Rosset entered on an extensive practice in Wilmington and kept in active servie for sixty-nine years. His reputation extended over the south. His last work was attending a woman of sixty-one years in confinement. For many years he was port physician of Wilmington."

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