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Charles McKnight
Charles McKnight (October 10, 1750 – November 16, 1791) was an American physician during and after the American Revolutionary War. He served as a surgeon and physician in the Hospital Department of the Continental Army under General George Washington and other subordinate commanders.〔Washington, Vol. 17, p. 222.〕 McKnight was one of the most respected surgeons of his day〔Handerson, p. 817.〕〔Alexander, p. 143.〕 and was remembered by one colleague as "particularly distinguished as a practical surgeon … at the time of his death (he) was without a rival in that branch of his profession."〔Nevet, p. 36.〕
==Early life==
McKnight was born in Cranbury Township in the colonial Province of New Jersey in 1750. His only sibling was his younger brother, Richard. His father, also named Charles McKnight, emigrated to the colonies from Ireland sometime around 1740 and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1742.〔Cameron, p. 55.〕 He became a minister of some note, and was one of the founders and trustees of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).〔Maclean, p. 361.〕 Reverend McKnight opposed British governance in Colonial America and was a loud voice for opposition and overthrow of the British government in New Jersey. According to Martha J. Lamb, Reverend McKnight received a severe saber cut to his head in the slashing melee that mortally wounded General Hugh Mercer at the Battle of Princeton.〔Lamb, p. 285.〕 His church at Middletown Point was burned in 1777 and Reverend McKnight was arrested.〔Schuyler, p. 260.〕 While in custody aboard the British prison ship HMS ''Jersey'' in New York City, Rev. McKnight's health rapidly failed, and he was released shortly before his death on January 1, 1778.〔Nevet, p. 35.〕
The younger McKnight attended schools in New Jersey and graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1771, in the same class as James Madison, Gunning Bedford, Jr., Henry Brackenridge, and Philip Freneau.〔Nevet, p. 34.〕〔Hunt, p. 15.〕 He was one of the founders of the American Whig Society, along with Brackenridge, Madison, Samuel Stanhope Smith, Bedford, Freneau, John Beatty, John Henry of Maryland, and William Bradford.〔〔Cameron, p. 56.〕 McKnight studied medicine and surgery privately with eminent Philadelphia surgeon William Shippen,〔 but left before he completed his studies and entered the Continental Army in 1775.〔
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