month, your joint letter was read
the contents whereof was very satis-
factory to the minds of such of the
members as were present who were
few in number; owing to a renewed
dispensation of sickness and mortality
which has been permitted, again to
visit poor Philadelphia, and which
though most prevalent in the northern
and southern extremeties of the City
has spread pretty generally through
it. and driven the greater part of
the Inhabitants from their Homes,
and by the latest accounts I have
received of those that remain, from
fifty to sixty are dayly removed
from this mutable state.

I (with my family) have been
removed to this place about two
weeks