13 Facts About Andrew Craigie

Andrew Craigie is best known for serving as the first Apothecary General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Andrew Craigie is believed to have attended the wounded at Bunker Hill two months after his appointment.

An apothecary was among the personnel specified in the resolution, and in time Andrew Craigie assumed that duty.

Andrew Craigie evidently supported Allen without aid from the mother's family, although Allen never lived in his household.

Andrew Craigie sent Mary Allen to the Moravian Boarding School for Girls in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1879.

Andrew Craigie became a financier and land speculator, buying and selling parcels of property in New England and Ohio, amassing a large fortune in the process.

Andrew Craigie bought up large amounts of discounted South Carolina paper at a good profit.

Andrew Craigie held substantial tracts in upstate New York, Oxford, Maine, and in East Cambridge, and speculated in both domestic and foreign money markets.

In 1791 or 1792, Andrew Craigie purchased the Vassall House and farm, comprising approximately 150 acres, which had served as Washington's headquarters during the war.

Meanwhile, Andrew Craigie continued to invest in land speculation, much of it in East Cambridge.

Andrew Craigie secretly acquired 300 acres around Lechmere Point with several partners, and revived plans to construct a bridge from Lechmere Point to Boston, using the success of the Charlestown and West Boston Bridges as ammunition for their plans.

Andrew Craigie was fundamental in convincing Middlesex County authorities to move the Middlesex County Courthouse from Harvard Square to a new Charles Bulfinch-designed building in East Cambridge.

Andrew Craigie's wife became so financially burdened that she sold many effects of the mansion, and began to take in boarders.