Yellow Fever at an End

Item

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Title

Yellow Fever at an End

Description

[Yellow] fever is at an end. Business has resumed. Preparations made for accommodation of congress and state assembly. Pay will go forward on Monday.

short description

Yellow fever at an end; business resumes

year created

1793

month created

11

day created

22

sent from location

Philadelphia

recipient

in collection

in image

note

Cited in Craig to Hodgdon, 11/29/1793.

cited note

Cited document sent from the War Office

notable person/group

Isaac Craig
Samuel Hodgdon
Congress
Quartermaster General
James O'Hara

notable location

Philadelphia
Pennsylvania

notable item/thing

fever
pay of the army
notes

notable idea/issue

Yellow Fever epidemic

document number

1793112236001

page start

1

transcription

Philadephia 22 Nov 1793
Dear Sir
This Jin is simplly to cover two Letters, which I wish you to cause to be deliverd>> having No letter from you by Post I conculde all was well. Our fever is at an end for the present, and business again rars his head__ preperations are making for the accomodation of Congress__and also for the [undecipherable] of the State__ we think neither runs any risque so compleatly is the disease subdued__ On Monday an Officer going forward with the Pay of the Army__ a Jum in the Notes for the Army goes with him, of wherein I shall write you particularly _ adieu_
Sincerely yours
Samuel Hodgdon
Isaac Craig

Item sets

Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (2 pages) IAK30 (2 pages) Collection: James Robertson Papers IB151

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Samuel Hodgdon Philadelphia [n/a]
Recipient Isaac Craig [unknown] [n/a]