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intimacy that formerly existed between the Bancroft and 

 Shattuck families. 



Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck (i 783-1 854), Dr. Benjamin's 

 son, for many years was a prominent physician of Boston ; 

 and Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck, Jr. (1813-1893), was also 

 a distinguished member of the profession, and a professor 

 in the Harvard Medical School, who told me once that, when 

 a medical student himself, he used to drive with Dr. Ban- 

 croft on his circuit while visiting patients. A sister of his, 

 Lucy Cheever, died at Dr. Bancroft's house in Groton, on 

 December 22, 1835. Dr. George Brune Shattuck (H. C. 

 1863) and Frederick Cheever Shattuck (H. C. 1868), of the 

 next generation, are also well-known and eminent physicians 

 in Boston. 



ISAAC HURD. 



Dr. Isaac Hurd was the third son of Benjamin and Grace 

 (Easterbrook) Hurd, and was born at Charlestown, on July 

 27, 1756. He graduated at Harvard College in the Class of 

 1776, and immediately after leaving Cambridge entered upon 

 the study of medicine under Dr. Oliver Prescott. For several 

 months during the year 1777 he served as surgeon in the 

 Revolutionary army. In 1778 he settled at Billerica as a 

 practising physician ; and while living there, on September 

 13, 1778, he married Sarah, eldest child of William and Sarah 

 (White) Tompson, who died on June i, 1789. By this mar- 

 riage there were five children. After the death of his wife 

 he removed to Concord, where he continued to live until his 

 death, which took place on November 19, 1844. 



Dr. Hurd married, secondly, on November 21, 1790, Mrs. 

 Polly, daughter of Gershom and Mary Flagg, of Boston, and 

 widow of Dr. Josiah Wilder, of Lancaster, who died on No- 

 vember 26, 1821; and thirdly, on February 3, 1825, Mrs. 

 Mary Bates, widow of Captain Caleb Bates, of Concord, 

 whose maiden name was Douglass. She came originally from 

 Scituate; and she died on February 22, 1854. 



