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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Henry Simmons letterbooks, Vol. 2 1798

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Philada 11th mo 19th 1798

Dear Friends,
I wrote to you (I think)
some time in the last month from
Monmouth County. New Jersey, to
which place I had removed with my
family, on account of the awful
Visitation of Sickness, under which
many of the Inhabitants of this
City were Labouring: and which
continued untill about the fifth of this
month, When it pleased the great
dispower of Events to cause a dis-
pensation of more general Health;
In the course of about three mon-
ths, near three Thousand five
Hundred of my fellow Citizens
have been removed from this
Earthly Scene, in the City; and
many