Domestic Narrative of the Life of Samuel Bard, M. D. LL. D: Late President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of the State of New York, &c (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Domestic Narrative of the Life of Samuel Bard, M. D. LL. D: Late President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of the State of New York, &C

Dr. Samuel bard, the subject of the following memoir, was born in Philadelphia, April 1, 1742. On the side of both parents he was of French descent; his paternal and maternal grandfathers preferring their faith to their coun try, became exiles under the provisions of the revocation of the edict of Nantes - a decree which not only scattered throughout Protestant Europe the arts to which France was indebted for her prosperity, but also served to confirm, in the infant colonies of America, the spirit of civil and religious freedom, and to plant in them the ancestors of not a few of those who were destined afterward to main tain it.

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