hv_swaynej_diary_1798_052

2nd month, first 1799 We received a letter from T.W. of Philadelphia expressive of a dis-pensation of more general health in the City than was experienced a few weeks past, but that in the course of about three Months 3500 of his fellow Citizens were removed from works to rewards, and many had ended their lives in the adjacent Country We also received one from J. Sharpless our fellow traveler in the commencement of this work, in which he expressed much love and sympathy with us in our undertaking also some pertinent communication concern-ing the weighty business in which we were ingaged, a circumstantial account of the Yearly Meeting and the recent visita-tion of sickness in Philadelphia and parts adjacent- 19th of the month Some Indian traders called upon us for lodging, amongst whom was the young War Chief of Catarugus Village, one of the company being a good interpreter we informed the Chief that one of us had lately passed thro their Village and taken a view of the situation of some of