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Thomas Young (1731–1777) was a member of the Boston Committee of Correspondence and an organizer of the Boston Tea Party. ==Life== Thomas Young was born February 19, 1731 in Little Britain, New Windsor, New York. He was the son of John and Mary Crawford Young who emigrated from Ireland to America in 1729 with a group led by Charles Clinton of County Longford, a cousin of John Young's mother, Jane. He was apprenticed to a local physician and then began his own medical practice in Amenia, Dutchess County in 1753. In 1755 he married Mary Winegar of Litchfield, Connecticut. They had two sons and four daughters.〔(Bielinski, Stefan. "Thomas Young", New York State Museum )〕 In August 1758 Young was indicted in the Crum Elbow Precinct of Dutchess County, New York for speaking and publishing "blasphemous words" concerning the Christian religion.〔(Raphael, Ray. ''Founders'', The New Press, 2013, ISBN 9781595585066 )〕 Young met the young Ethan Allen while Allen was living in Salisbury, Connecticut and Young was practicing medicine just across the provincial boundary in Amenia, New York. Only five years older than Allen, Young taught the younger Allen a great deal about philosophy and political theory. Young and Allen eventually decided to collaborate on a book intended to be an attack on organized religion, as Young had convinced Allen to become a Deist. They worked on the manuscript until 1764, when Young moved away from the area, taking the manuscript with him.〔Jellison, Charles Albert. ''Ethan Allen: Frontier Rebel''. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. (1969) ISBN 0-8156-2141-8〕 They also shared an interest in ingrafting, an early form of inoculation, particularly in relation to small pox. Ingrafting was considered a heresy by New England clergy and punishable by law, if not conducted with the consent of the town selectman. In 1764 Allen insisted that Young inject him with the virus on the Salisbury meeting house steps to prove whether or not ingrafting worked. They did this on a Sunday. Allen did not suffer from the virus, but when news of what they had done spread Allen was hauled into court for a blasphemous response to the investigating official.〔("the Story of Ethan Allen'', American History )〕 In October 1764, Young moved to Albany to establish a medical practice. While there his son Rasman was baptized at the Lutheran Church.〔 Young invested in a real estate venture with John Henry Lydius which subsequently failed. Young became involved in the resistance movement in Albany in the 1760s and helped found the Sons of Liberty there.〔("Thomas Young", Gilder-Lehman Institute of American History )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Young (American revolutionary)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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