Dr. Evan Jones

http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20083557.pdf p.411

It is an interesting fact which I have noted elsewhere, that

for twenty-five years the only physicians of Philadelphia

and its vicinity were Welshmen. It is also a fact of which

as Welshmen we are proud, that the physician of George

Washington, Dr. John Jones, was the great-grandson of

Dr. Thomas Wynne, who was himself the physician of Wil

liam Penn ; so that the Founder of our State and " the

Father of his country" owed their lives, humanly speaking,

to the care and skill of Welsh physicians. Had this skill

and care failed the one amid the pestilence on " The Wel

come" or the other in the perils of the Revolution, who can