Yellow Fever A of 1793 746 at Philad/a

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                                                                        General Knox 
                                                                        Secretary of War &c &c &c
                                                                                     @ New York



                                                                        In case of absence, to be delivered to 
                                                                        Mrs. Knox ~~

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          John Williams

Dear General Mount Pleasant Octbr 5 . 1793

(I have written to you twice and write again)

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without knowing where you are I have just come from your house & have the satisfaction of assuring you that all is well there. — — Your people appear to me very prudent, & by keeping a lock on the Gate they prevent any one from coming unawares, I think you may be perfectly wary as to danger. the malady is a contagious one, not communi- cable ~ at a distance. We think ourselves safe & you may depend that nothing on our part shall

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be wanting to supply you & Mr. Knox’s absence . to your Babe & its attendants. ~

      The unfortunate City is still in sad

distress. I have no hopes of its being better till we have either a storm or a frost. Medical aid appears to me effectual only in cases where the disease is not confirmed, and where the natural powers of the body are able to support it.

I put your Ladys name on this that she ,

may have accounts of her babes in case you should not be where she is [scribble] ~ ~ Mrs Williams joins in last Respects to her

     I am my dear Friend

              affectionately yours

                                    Williams