This day I have the
pequit guard. Sent the Lievt & 36 men across the lake to git sum bark for
the hospitall. The weather showrey. I wrote a letter home, having an
oppertunity to send it directly to Boston. To day 2 men belonging to our troops
was caryed to the hospital, being taken with the small pox.2 I am in
hopes it wont spread, for all possible care is taken to prevent it, the
hospitall being 2 miles off the incampment; & our colonels have not had it;
so they will, I trust, take the more care that it dont spread.
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2 See 2 Proceedings, vol. iv. p. 393
SOURCE: Samuel
Jenks, Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks
During the French and Indian War, 1760, p. 8