An historic guide to Cambridge . ryVassall, who, January 28, 1742, married Penelope Royall, of Medford, and broughther to this house. Two children were born here, Elizabeth, in 1742 (later thewife of Dr. Charles Russell, of Lincoln) and Penelope, who died young. Vassall represented Cambridge in the General Court in 1752, and 1756,and died March 17, 1769. His widow continued to live here until Cambridgebecame the headquarters of the Continental army, when she removed hastilyto Boston. From there she sailed, with her daughter, Mrs. Russell, to Antigua,where she had estates. Just before
An historic guide to Cambridge . ryVassall, who, January 28, 1742, married Penelope Royall, of Medford, and broughther to this house. Two children were born here, Elizabeth, in 1742 (later thewife of Dr. Charles Russell, of Lincoln) and Penelope, who died young. Vassall represented Cambridge in the General Court in 1752, and 1756,and died March 17, 1769. His widow continued to live here until Cambridgebecame the headquarters of the Continental army, when she removed hastilyto Boston. From there she sailed, with her daughter, Mrs. Russell, to Antigua,where she had estates. Just before sailing Madam Vassall petitioned the Pro-vincial Congress, then sitting at Watertown, that she might be allowed to takewith her some of her effects. Congress permitted her to take anything that shewanted except provisions and her medicine chest. The estate was not con-fiscated, as it belonged to a widow who had taken no active part against thepatriots. We learn from the records of the Provincial Congress that, at this time, the. VASSALL IIOLSE —Medical Heauc^uakters —East Eni HISTORIC GUIDE TO CAMBRIDGE 97 Continentals had only two medicine chests, one in Roxbury and the other at thehouse of Madame Vassall. From these two all the regimental surgeons had tosupply their needs. The fact that the medicines were here, and that there weretwenty available rooms, besides halls and out-houses, may have been the reasonthat this house became the medical headquarters.* Dr. Isaac Foster of Charlestown (1) (great-grandson of William Foster, who,captured by thef Turks as he was going to Bilboa with fish, in 1671, was setfree through the prayers of Rev. John Eliot) was born in Charlestown, in 1740,graduated at Harvard in 1758, and studied medicine with Dr. James Lloyd ofBoston and, later, in England. lie was a delegate to the Middlesex Convention,August, 1774, and member of the First Provincial Congress of Massachusetts^October, 1774. After the battle of Concord he gave up a large practic
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