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Summer we hope this Subject will be weightily impressed on your minds, all which we Submit to your Solid deliberation— We are well and are your affectionate Friends—Signed &;c. 2nd from Thomas Wistar received the 1st of 2nd mo 99 Philadelphia 11th mo 19-98 Dear Friends I wrote to you (I think) some time in the last month from Monmouth County, New Jersey to which place I had remo-ved with my Family on account of the awful visitation of Sickness under which many of the inhabitants of this City were then laboring, and which continued until about the 5th of this month when it pleased the great disposer of events to cause a dispensation of more general health—In the course of about three months, near three thousand five hundred of my fellow Citizens have been