"A Young Patriot in the American Revolution" by John Greenwood

Full title: A Young Patriot in the American Revolution 1775-1783 - a Record of Events Written During the Year 1809 at Such Leisure Moments as the Arduous Duties of a Professional Life Permitted the Dentist to His Excellency George Washington by John Greenwood. Published in Richmond by Westvaco Corporation in 1981. 202pp.

Limited edition, privately printed copy of the 1922 first publication of John Greenwood's memoirs. 

In excellent condition and in it's original slipcase.

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About the author

John Greenwood (May 17, 1760 – November 16, 1819) was an American fifer and dentist, serving as George Washington's personal dentist. He was responsible for designing Washington's famous dentures, which were not wood but carved from hippopotamus tusk. He invented the first known "dental foot engine" in 1790.

Greenwood served as a fifer during the American Revolutionary War at sixteen years of age. He served twenty months in Captain Theodore Bliss's company of the 26th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, playing the fife in the Continental Army from 1775 to 1778. He was the grandson of Isaac Greenwood, a mathematics professor at Harvard University, and son of Isaac Greenwood, the first native-born American dentist.

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