Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks, Monday, June 30, 1760

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

Diary of Luke Gridley, April 28, 1757

we marcht 4 mils¹ & 6 thrugh the nine Pardenners² and then 6 which was to Levenstones manners fourness³ nb: we passed By whare 3: men died: small pox a fortinnight Before haveing the wind of ye house

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¹ To the Connecticut line at the Oblong, on the west of Salisbury.

² The Little Nine Partners, granted by New York in 1706, was the manorial estate next south of Livingstone's Manor: it was through this that the troops passed. The Great Nine Partners, south of this, had been granted in 1697.

³ Furnace (Ancram). The ore beds were part of the great Middle Berkshire deposit still heavily worked in Salisbury.

SOURCE: Luke Gridley, Luke Gridley’s Diary of 1757, p. 24