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Armand John DeRosset Jr. |
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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
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MOTHER
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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