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Yankee Doodle First Played to Shame Soldiers
Dr. Logan Clendening recounts the Revolutionary era origin of Yankee Doodle stating a British surgeon Dr Richard Shuckburgh composed the tune in Schenectady 1773 and that American troops quickly adopted it. He notes medical signers of the Declaration and urges Fourth of July safety warnings over fireworks.
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Logan Clendening
Joshua Bartlett
Mathew Thornton
New Hampshire
Oliver Walcott
Vermont
Benjamin Rush
Pennsylvania
Lyman Hall
Georgia
Richard Shuckburgh
Schenectady
Mohawk Valley
America
James Thacher