This letter from the Continental Army’s Adjutant General Joseph Reed, appointed the Pennsylvanian Jonathan Potts to command the Director of the hospital in Canada. Although the retreat from Québec removed American forces from Canada, Potts continued to tend to the sick of the army from his new post at Fort George where he executed General Gates’ orders to distance the sick from the healthy troops. (Fort Ticonderoga Museum Collections, Ms. 1969)