Journal of Lieutenant Isaac Bangs, May 14, 1776

Continued very ill; a small Fever seting in took all my apetite for food away. This, with the Anguish of the sore Boils, brought me so weak that I could not sit up the Day.

Had disagreeable news from Quebeck that the Enemy had made a Sally, being impowered thereto by reinforcements that arrived on the 4th of May, & that not more than 200 of our Men being to oppose them, they had taken the Hospital with 200 Sick, almost the whole of the Artilery & Amunition, with all the Provisions. If this is true, there is great Blame for the General, as our Army consisted of about 7,500 Men.

SOURCE: Edward Bangs, Edited, Journal of Lieutenant Isaac Bangs, April 1 to July 29, 1776, p. 35

Journal of Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker, July 3, 1774

B. Trapnell taken unwell with a sick stomach and fever; Dr Parke attends him. He continued ye same till ye morning of ye 9th, without our being apprehensive of the danger he was in, or Dr Parke, tho' Benny had desired him to call in Dr Kearsley—who did not see him till ye 9th, when he was much changed for the worse. His fever had changed to billious; he departed this life about 4 o'clock, ye morning of ye 10th—First day—and was so much changed by 9 o'clock, that ye Doctors advised by all means to bury him that day, which was accordingly done, between 7 and 8 o'clock in ye evening.

Benny was in his 27th or 28th year—much lamented by all of us. 

SOURCE: Henry D. Biddle, Editor, Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker from 1759 to 1807, A.D., p. 39