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Birth	:	1723
Death	:	2 Apr 1805
Burial	:	Common Burying Ground, Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.4959564, -71.3165741
Description	:	DOCTOR David Olyphant: 1720-1805 Born in Pitheavles, near Perth. Scotland, in 1720; died in Newport, R. I., April 2, 1805 (?). After an excellent education he studied medicine and became a physician, and during the Rebellion in Scotland had occasion to exorcise his profession at the battlefield of Culloden, April 16, 1746. Having soon afterward emigrated to South Carolina, he was on the 8th of June, 1747, appointed Surgeon to the "Three Independent Companies" of H. R. M. regular foot, then stationed in that province. On the 22nd of January, 1755, he resigned his commission and settled in the... Read More	DOCTOR David Olyphant: 1720-1805 Born in Pitheavles, near Perth. Scotland, in 1720; died in Newport, R. I., April 2, 1805 (?). After an excellent education he studied medicine and became a physician, and during the Rebellion in Scotland had occasion to exorcise his profession at the battlefield of Culloden, April 16, 1746. Having soon afterward emigrated to South Carolina, he was on the 8th of June, 1747, appointed Surgeon to the "Three Independent Companies" of H. R. M. regular foot, then stationed in that province. On the 22nd of January, 1755, he resigned his commission and settled in the Parish of St. George, Dorchester, S. C. and engaged in the practice of medicine. January 11, 1775 to November 1. 1775 — Member of Provincial General Assembly of South Carolina. November 16, 1775 — Appointed member of the Council of Safety. March 26, 1776 — Chosen a member of the Legislative Council of the Province. June 1, 1776 — Appointed by the Continental Congress as Director-General of the Hospitals in the Southern Department (Commission bearing the date July 4, 1776) , and vacated his office at the Council Board. Continuing actively in service, was present March 20, 1780, to May 12. 1780, at Siege of Charleston, prisoner of war; on parole until November 9, 1780, when exchanged. March 15, 1781— At battle of Guilford Court House, Va. April 25, 1781— At battle of Hobkirk's Hill. May 7, 1781 — Appointed by Congress Director of American Hospitals to the Army commanded by Major- General Nathaniel Greene. On re-arrangement of the Medical Department, appointed by Congress: May 15, 1781 — Deputy Director Hospital Department for the Southern Army. May 21 to June 19, 1781 — At siege of Fort Ninety-six. September 8, 1781 — At battle of Eutaw Springs. Subsequently in camp on the High Hills of Santee. July 13, 1783 — Southern Staff Service having been discontinued, placed on “Waiting Orders” November 15, 1783 — Honourably discharged. After the peace again became the representative from his old parish, St. George, Dorchester, in the South Carolina General Assembly, until he removed to Newport, R. I., in 1785. Here on the 23rd of October. 1785, he was married to ANN, daughter of SAMUEL VERNON, Esq., Merchant of Newport, and granddaughter of Governor RICHARD WARD, of Rhode Island, and on the 20th of November sailed for Charleston. S. C, with his wife. On the 14th of June, 1786, he returned from South Carolina in the sloop Mary and thenceforward made his home in Newport, where he practised medicine until his decease. He was an original member of the South Carolina State Society of the Cincinnati, and a member of its Standing Committee from October 6, 1783, and joined the Rhode Island Society bv transfer July 4, 1788. The Honourable DAVID OLYPHANT left one son, DAVID WASHINGTON CINCINNATUS OLYPHANT, who was born in Newport. R. I., March 7, 1789. Note: The Military record of Doctor David Olyphant is from the records of the Rhode Island State Society of the Cincinnati, compiled by Col. Asa Bird Gardiner, LL.D., Secretary-General, and President of the R. I. State Societv of the Cincinnati.

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Ann Vernon Olyphant

(1754 - 1826)

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Ann Oliphant

(1786 - 1861)

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Coordinate: 41.4959564, -71.3165741

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