... the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and continually wrote articles against the British for the press. Soon he became associated with patriot leaders such as Thomas Paine, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. In early 1776, Benjamin Rush married Julia Stockton, daughter of Richard Stockton, a member of the Continental Congress. Dr. Rush and Julia had thirteen children together. In June of 1776 ... , was the president of the Philadelphia Medical society, vice-president and co-founder of the Philadelphia Bible Society, and a founder and vice-president of the America...

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