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| | Biographies of Dr. Benjamin Church |
 | | CHURCH, BENJAMIN (Aug. 24, 1734-1776), physician, traitor, poet, and author, was a grandson of Col. Benjamin Church [q.v.], who was conspicuous in the Indian and French Wars, and a son of Benjamin, deacon of Mather Byless church (Boston). |
 | | Church, nevertheless, continued in the confidence of the Whigs, for, with Dr. Joseph Warren and others, he was appointed a delegate in 1774 to the Provincial Congress. |
 | | Church was tried by court martial, Oct. 1775, Washington presiding, and was found guilty of holding criminal correspondence with the enemy. In July 1775, he had sent a cipher letter to the commander of a British vessel Newport. |
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