Person
William Trent
Trader, land speculator and militia captain at Fort Pitt in 1763.
Connections 1
involved in
- Smallpox-hospital blankets given at Fort Pitt, 1763 wrote in his journal that "we gave them" two blankets and a handkerchief from the smallpox hospital; the journal does not say who conceived or carried out the act, per Fenn Scholarship & press 1
Proof 1 source
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Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst, The Journal of American History, 2000.
Scholarship & press
“we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect.”
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