1General Orders, 25 March 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Waggon Masters and Company of Carpenters in Boston, to receive and obey all such Orders and Directions, as Brigadier General Green shall think proper to give—The Hospital and Regimental surgeons to examine carefully the state of their sick, and whenever they discover the smallest symptom of the small-pox, they are without delay to send the patient to the small-pox Hospital in Cambridge....
2From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 25 March 1776 (Washington Papers)
Since my last, things remain nearly in Statu-quo—the Enemy have the best nack at puzling People I ever met with in my life. They have blown up—burst—and demolished the Castle, totally; and are now all in Nantasket Road—have been there ever since Wednesday; what doing the Lord knows—various are the conjectures; the Bostonians think there stay there absolutely necessary to fit them for Sea, as...