SW_HJ1798_006

24 of 10th mo. We received the following of Thomas Wistar who was appointed to answer our Letters on behalf of the Committee when nothing of importance required their Uniting therein-- Dear Friends, At a meeting of the Indian Committee held last month, your joint Letter was read the contents whereof was very satisfactory to 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 &; Southern extremities of the City has spread pretty generally thro' 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 daily removed from this mutable state— I (with my family) have been removed