The doctor in old New York / by F.H. Bosworth.

  • F. H. Bosworth
Date:
[1898]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The doctor in old New York / by F.H. Bosworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. Johannes %a flftontagne a salary of one hundred guilders a year for attending the poor. The first educated medical man who made his appearance in New Amsterdam was Dr. Johannes La Montagne, a learned Huguenot gentleman, who arrived in the spring of 1637. He was born in 1595, and received his degree from the University at Leyden, where he mar¬ ried his first wife, Rachel De Forest. After practising in Leyden a number of years, he determined to follow his wife’s family, who had previously emigrated to America. He is styled “ eenwelgestudientman ” and his repu¬ tation as a physician immediately gave him a certain prominence in the village. His first wife dying a few years after his arrival, he married again, in 1647, Agritha Fillis, widow of Arent Corson. By the latter he had no family. By the first wife he had five children, of whom his daughter Rachel married Dr. Gysbert Van Lintroch. Dr. La Montagne’s ability was early recognized by Governor Kieft, who appointed him to a seat in his Council in 1638, a position he retained under Governor Stuyvesant. Again, when the Council voted that a public school should be established, if practicable, in the City Tavern, La Montagne was for the time appointed schoolmaster. He is said once to have saved Governor Kieft from assassination. At one time he was sent with an expedition of fifty men to defend Fort
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