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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:33:30 PST
- Reply-To: Tom Lincoln <lincoln@IRIS.RAND.ORG>
- Sender: ROOTS-L Genealogy List <ROOTS-L@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
- From: Tom Lincoln <lincoln@IRIS.RAND.ORG>
- Subject: Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
- Comments: To: Roots-L@vm1.nodak.edu, Joan Bishop <joan@u.washington.edu>
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- Joan Bishop asks:
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- >Do you know when Philadelphia was abandoned because of yellow fever?
- >I have ancestors that left there for Washington County, PA.
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- Well... it was only partially abandoned. Dr. Benjamin Rush stayed, the
- blacks stayed and buried the others... and a lot of others stayed...
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- A good book on the topic is "Bring Out Your Dead: The great plague of
- yellow fever in philadelphia in 1793" by J. H. Powell, Philadelphia, at the
- University Press, 1949
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- Tom
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