Robert Hale (12 February 1702 (o.s.) – 20 March 1767) was a doctor and military officer from Beverly, Massachusetts.
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Hale graduated from Harvard in 1721 and later practiced as a physician in Beverly. He commanded a regiment under William Pepperell at the Siege of Louisbourg in 1745. In 1747, he was appointed by the legislature of Massachusetts a commissioner to New York to adopt measures for the general defence, and in 1755 was a commissioner to New Hampshire to plan an expedition against the French. He was appointed sheriff of Essex County, Massachusetts, in 1761, and was for 13 years a member of the legislature.
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- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- Edwin Martin Stone (1843). History of Beverly, civil and ecclesiastical, from its settlement in 1630 to 1842. Boston. pp. 38–52. http://books.google.com/books?id=EJwxqsapjSMC&pg=PA38. Here he is referred to as Robert Hale, Jr.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "[[wikisource:Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Hale, John|]]" 1892
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