[273] Livingston to Washington, Aug. 12, 1776; Cor. Rev.: Sparks, i, 275.
[274] Lee to Washington, Nov. 12, 1776; ib., 305.
[275] Sullivan to Washington, March 7, 1777; ib., 353-54.
[276] Schuyler to Washington, Sept. 9. 1776; ib., 287.
[277] Smith to McHenry, Dec. 10, 1778; Steiner, 21.
[278] Chastellux, 44; and see Moore's Diary, i, 399-400; and infra, chap. IV.
[279] Washington to Livingston, Dec. 31, 1777; Writings: Ford, vi, 272.
[280] Washington to President of Congress, Dec. 23, 1777; ib., 260; and see ib., 267.
[281] Pa. Mag. Hist. and Biog., 1890-91 (2d Series), vi, 79. Most faces among the patriot troops were pitted with this plague. Washington was deeply pockmarked. He had the smallpox in the Barbadoes when he was nineteen years old. (Sparks, 15.)
[282] Weedon, Jan. 6, 1778, 183.