John Jeffries John Jeffries John Jeffries (5 February 1745 – 16 September 1819) was a Boston physician, scientist, and a military surgeon with the British Army in Nova Scotia and New York during the American Revolution. He is best known for accompanying Jean-Pierre Blanchard on his 1785 balloon flight across the English Channel. Born in Boston, Jeffries graduated from Harvard College and obtained his medical degree at the University of Aberdeen. Dr. Jeffries played a large role in the trial for the Boston Massacre as a witness for the defense. He was the surgeon for Patrick Carr, who was one of the
Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon is a children's video game developed by Capitol Multimedia, Inc., published by Brøderbund and released in 1996 for the Macintosh and Windows and Windows 3.x systems. In the town of Acorn Hollow, Gregory "The Party Freak" Chuckwood and his pet lizard Newt go for a ride in a hot air balloon, but they drift away to a faraway place. With the balloon downed, Gregory needs to find the scattered balloon parts to get it going again so he and Newt can return home. Various puzzles, interactive objects and