George Washington to Pennsylvania Colonels, 12 March 1777
George Washington to Pennsylvania Colonels
Morristown [New Jersey] March 12, 1777. Requests exact return of troops. Orders men who have had smallpox to the Army, others to Philadelphia to be inoculated. Instructs colonels to remain in Philadelphia to supply their regiments.
Df, in writing of H, indorsed by H as sent to “the Committee of Safety of Pennsylvania and to Delaware State,” George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.