. History of the city of New York: its origin, rise and progress . are, choosing Middle-brook, New Jersey, for his own head([uarters. By a plan of alarm-signalsone post would reinforce another in case of an incursion of the enemy DR. JOHN COCHRANE. 215 to any particular point; thus comparative security was afforded to thecountry. General Lincoln was sent by order of Congress to take com-mand of the Southern department. Lafayette had been ly-ing dangerously ill witha fever lor many weeksat the Verplanck Mansion inFishkill,and dur-ing his convalescencein November was pre-paring to visit Franceon
. History of the city of New York: its origin, rise and progress . are, choosing Middle-brook, New Jersey, for his own head([uarters. By a plan of alarm-signalsone post would reinforce another in case of an incursion of the enemy DR. JOHN COCHRANE. 215 to any particular point; thus comparative security was afforded to thecountry. General Lincoln was sent by order of Congress to take com-mand of the Southern department. Lafayette had been ly-ing dangerously ill witha fever lor many weeksat the Verplanck Mansion inFishkill,and dur-ing his convalescencein November was pre-paring to visit Franceon leave of absence, fullof a grand project forthe next summers cam-paign, which he de-signed to lay before thecabinet at was closely attendetlby Dr. John Cochrane,^of Washingtons staff,the surgeon-general ofthe hospital of the army,whose wife was Ger-trude, the onlyssister ofGeneral Philip Schuy-ler. Lafayette was fondof him, appreciated his intelligence and force of character, and oftencalled him The good Doctor Bones, from a song with the somewhat. , Dr. John Cochrane. [From a miniature in possession of his grandson. General John Dr. John Cochrane was born in 1730, received a careful education, and finished his medicalstudies before the breaking out of the French war in 1755. Entering the army as surgeonsmate, he left the .service at the close of that vvar with the character of a .skillful and experi-enced practitioner. In 1776 he offered his services as a volunteer in the hospital depaitnientof the Aineiican army, and Vicing personally known and admired by , was shortlyapj)ointed pliysician and surgeon-general in the middle dejiartment ; in October, 1781, Con-gress a])pointed him director-general of the hospitals of the United States. When peace wasrestored he removed his family to New York City, residing at 96 Broadway ; he continued onterms of cordial intimacy with Washington as long as he lived, and with the general officersof the army.
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