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Having unfortunately discovered symptoms of the Small Pox breaking out on Joseph Ratcliff a Valuable Boy belonging to the American Continental Ship under my Command—to prevent (if possible) its spreading among the Crew a great Part of whom have never been Inoculated—I have sent him on Shore at Point l'Abbé, and as Monsieur Le Roy of that place has had the goodness to undertake that the Boy shall...
Date: 5 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I wrote to you from Quimper Bay the 5th: Currt: having discovered the small Pox breaking out on Joseph Ratcliff a Boy belonging to the Ship under my Command—whom I therefore left under the Care of Monsr: Le Roy of that place.1 —I desired you to reimburse Monsieur Le Roy for the necessary and Contingent expence and to have the Boy taken care of until he...
Date: 9 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11