William Eustis
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William Eustis was an early American medical doctor, politician, and statesman from Massachusetts. Trained in medicine, he served as a military surgeon during the American Revolutionary War, notably a
1873 portrait by Walter M. Brackett
James Madison, portrait by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1805–1807
Harrison Gray Otis, portrait by Gilbert Stuart
The Shirley-Eustis House, in the Roxbury section of Boston
John Armstrong Jr.
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John Armstrong Jr. was an American soldier, diplomat and statesman who was a delegate to the Continental Congress, U.S. Senator from New York, and United States Secretary of War under President James
William Eustis
…a threatened uprising in the Continental Army. Eustis publicly denied being the author of the letters, but was silent on his role in the affair. (John Armstrong later admitted to writing the letters, and Eustis acknowledged some years later that he was privy to the plot.) Eustis was a moderate Democratic-Republican…
Portrait by John Wesley Jarvis, c. 1807–1817
Alida Livingston Armstrong and Daughter, Rembrandt Peale, ca. 1810
Daguerreotype of Armstrong in 1840. This photo is the only one of a person who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress.