Journal of Samuel Curwen, May 11, 1775

Col. Caswell was innoculated for the small pox. Mr. Lee again repeated his advice of my going to London. Dined with J. B. Smith; rode with him to his farm six miles out. Drank tea with Mr. Lee and Startin.

SOURCE: George Atkinson Ward, Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen, Judge of Admiralty, etc., An American Refugee in England from 1775 to 1784, p. 28

Diary of Reverend Enos Hitchcock, April 12, 1777

Innoculated² about 10 o.clock A. M. took mercurial pill in evening, pleasant

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² This method for preventing small pox preceded Jenner's vaccination.

SOURCE: William B. Weedex, Editor, formerly Captain Battery C, First R. I. Light Artillery, and Chief of Artillery, First Division, Fifth Corps, A. P., Diary of Enos Hitchcock, D. D., A Chaplain in the Revolutionary Army, p. 107