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State of Service: MD
Qualifying Service: Staff Officer
Per Find-a-Grave #196485988; Burial Details Unknown
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Author: Steve Claggett
Dr. Samuel Claggett
Reverend Samuel Clagett, the father of Dr. Samuel, married Elizabeth Gantt and had two children: Thomas John (the first Episcopal Bishop of Maryland, third Chaplain of the US Senate - interned in the Washington National Cathedral) and Priscilla. In 1751, Rev. Clagett married his second wife, Ann Brown, the daughter of Dr. Gustavus Brown and Frances Fowke of Charles County, Maryland. Both Ann Brown and Rev. Clagett were descendants of the English nobility. Samuel was born in 1756 shortly after his father’s death at the family plantation located at Croom, Maryland.
In 1758 Samuel’s mother, Ann, married her second husband Robert Horner, a Maryland merchant relocating to Prince William County, Virginia. Robert and Ann raised four children to adulthood one of which, Gustavus Horner, revolutionary surgeon’s mate.
Samuel was apprenticed to his mother’s half-brother, Dr. Gustavus R Brown who later became surgeon-general of the Continental Army and was one of the doctors that attended George Washington at his death. In 1774, Samuel’s mother married her third husband, Col. Samuel Hansen, the brother of John Hansen, third to preside over the Continental Congress and first to use the title President.
Samuel Claggett joined the Maryland Continental Line as a surgeon’s mate (assistant surgeon), a commissioned officer in 1777. According to his pension application:
“He entered the army in the Maryland line on continental establishment as stated by his widow in the year 1777 as an Assistant Surgeon (he then being a student of medicine with Doctor Gustavus R. Brown of Port Tobacco, Maryland) and served until about the middle of February 1780, he then resigned and went to sea. [Reportedly he went to France] On his return he again entered the service in the same capacity and served to the end of the war. I have often heard him speak of his services as assistant surgeon at the Bethlehem Hospital and Valley Forge, and in the State of New York and other places.”
Claggett settled in Fairfax County, Virginia, after the Revolutionary War and added a second “g” to his last name. In 1785 he married Amie Jane Ramey of Loudoun County, Virginia, 2nd great granddaughter of Jacob Remy, a French Huguenot of noble blood.
Dr Claggett and Amie lived in Fairfax County where he practiced medicine until moving to Culpepper County, Virginia. After 1801, Dr Claggett and his family relocated to Fauquier County on a farm called “Snow Hill”. The couple raised ten children that grew to adulthood: Dr. Ferdinand, Samuel Claggett III, Christopher Columbus, Thomas John, Anne, Elizabeth, Cecilia, Sophia, Mary and Juliet.
Dr Claggett was described him as follows:
“I remember Dr C. very well; he lived on his farm 4 m. from Warrenton….He had been well educated and was steady in his habits, but very retiring and fond of study, and was respected by all who knew him. He was tall, with blue eyes, auburn hair, and very fair skin.”
Dr Claggett died March 26, 1821 in New Baltimore, Fauquier County, Virginia.
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