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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="040b9c00dduajq.jpg"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="70" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="66"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="76" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="66" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Cholera</B></div> <div> <B>Smallpox</B></div> <div> <B>Yellow Fever</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2b6abaf0.jpg" border=0 width="171" height="175" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Distemper</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Falmouth Packet Archives 1688-1850</B></FONT>    |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Falmouth Packet Archives 16881850"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <B>Health</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id175.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Steam "><U>Steam </U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Freemasonry"><U>Freemasonry</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id188.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HRH Prince of Wales Masonic Ceremony at"><U>HRH Prince of Wales & Masonic Ceremony at Truro Cathedral 1880 & 1887</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id124.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cartels Prisoners"><U>Cartels & Prisoners</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id115.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lighthouses Navigation"><U>Lighthouses & Navigation</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id109.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Piracy "><U>Piracy </U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id71.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Smuggling "><U>Smuggling </U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id72.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Customs Excise"><U>Customs & Excise</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id75.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="British Navy"><U>British Navy</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id76.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Merchant Convoys"><U>Merchant Convoys</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id78.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="American Navy"><U>American Navy</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id77.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="France Navy, Privateers, Convoys"><U>France - Navy, Privateers, Convoys</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id108.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="French Pacquets"><U>French Pacquets</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id149.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Trinity House"><U>Trinity House</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id56.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Philatelic "><U>Philatelic </U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id129.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Genealogy"><U>Genealogy</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id158.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dress of the Packet era"><U>Dress of the Packet era</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id117.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sailing (Racing)"><U>Sailing (Racing)</U></A></div> <div> Health</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>1715 </B>  <A NAME="1715_memorial_of_anne_gwin__distemper_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><I>A Memorial of Anne Gwin, </I>by Thomas Gwin [Quaker]</div> <bR> <div> <B>Anne Gwin</B> was born at Falmouth in the County of Cornwall on the 4th day of the 5th month ['called July'] 1692.</div> <div> She was called Anne in respect to my sister, who deceased about five months before she was born. She was a lovely child, and her mother had no great trouble in the nursing her until <B>a sickness seized her at about one year old</B>, when we feared we should have lost her: But we prayed to the Lord, and she was saved.  As she grew in years the good effects of our care for her Christian and Virtuous Education, appeared in her sober and religious behavior and conservation. And, being arrived at about the age of twenty years, I took her with me to London in the year of the Third Month [May], 1712, being <B>myself very weak with the</B><I><B> Gout</B></I>. Her carriage there was as usual, attended with great Sobriety and a very discreet Deportment, which rendered her Society generally acceptable with persons of a like Character.</div> <bR> <div> After three weeks abode there we returned, and tarried one day at <I>Reading</I>; the next day I appointed to be at a meeting about three miles short of <I>Newbury.</I> And we had a comfortable journey from thence to <I>Marlborough</I>, <I>Calne</I>, and so to<I> Bath</I>, where we came the seventh day after we left London.  She rested at Bath until the fourth day following, I leaving her there whist I visited friends at <I>Bristol.</I> But it's not so much my purpose to give a journal of our Travels, as to write a short account of my dear daughter's Life, who was indeed one worthy to be in remembrance.  We got home to the comfort of out Friends and Family, and <B>she abode at her ordinary work of Writing and Sewing and Conversing freely with her friends</B>, though they were not many that she admitted to a Familiarity with her.</div> <bR> <div> The next summer, I taking a journey with my wife to <I>Plymouth</I>, we left the government and care of our family with her, which she managed very well.  Her younger sister, <B>Grace</B>, was indisposed when we left our home, which greatly increased upon her during our absence, of which our daughter Anne gave us a very Intelligible Account by Letter.  So we returned, and found her Condition did admit of very little Hope: However her sister's care over her, was with that tenderness, as if she had been her own child; till it pleased God, that on her <B>Riding abroad and Living abroad</B>, in which our dear Anne would not leave her, that <B>she mended:</B> But it was whilst they were thus from home, that her self was seized with a growing Pain in her Stomach, of which she ever after complained to her last.</div> <bR> <div> And although we thought not much of it at first, yet as this pain encreased on her, we were not wanting in advising with Physicians, and in great Measure in following their Prescriptions: Though she kept not within Doors until about the beginning of December, 1714.  After which her <B>Distemper</B> grew greatly on her, with Loss of Sleep, and a Loathing of Stomach, that she was with Difficulty prevailed on to eat any thing, but declined gradually. We could not perceive for more than four Months before she deceased, any likely Symptom of Recovery; but rather waxing worse, until the fifteenth day of the second month ['called April'], betwixt Six and Seven at Evening, when she departed, after a great Patience and Affliction, it may be for near six Months before she expired. </div> <bR> <div> When I come to recount her Towardliness, her Innocency from a Child up, her Sobriety of Behavior, and upon the fear of the Lord which dwelt upon her Soul, there would be abundant Mater; for she was indeed a Pattern to young Ones of her Age, and might be an example to those who were Elder.</div> <bR> <div> <B>She took to Learning very Young</B>, and soon became a good Reader, <I>viz</I>. when she was but <B>about three Years and Half old</B>; she wrote tolerably well before five, as I remember, and in time attained to speak and write good <I>English</I>, beyond the capacity of many Women.  She learned <I>French</I>., and some little <I>Latin</I>; and was very handy in her Work and <B>neat in her Dress</B>; but kept generally <B>within the Bounds of Plainness. </B></div> <bR> <div> As she grew in Years, she encreased in Understanding, and became able to advise her Elders in some difficult Cases; and indeed, from her Infancy, her Conversation was generally with such as were her Superior in Years, and from whom no doubt she proposed to reap some Edification: For she was earnestly bent to obtain Knowledge, which she pursued by such Conversation, as well as by <B>a solitary Life</B>, which gave her Opportunity of much Reading. [No mention of attending any school, or of a tutor...]</div> <bR> <div> She was not a Wanderer, but a due keeper at Home, and shewed an Aversion to all wanton Discources and Behavior, the ordinary Topicks of some Women's Conversation, as discanting upon the Faults of their Neighbours*, and the Satyrical Discourses held over their Tea-Tables, were an Abhorrence to her: But she dearly loved a Converse, whereby People might edifice one another. [<A HREF="id74_1724_franklin_formed_a_literary_club_while.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Benjamin FRANKLIN (17061790)"><U>a la, Benjamin Franklin</U></A> (1706-1790)]</div> <bR> <div> *"<I>Lord, I have sinned greatly before thee. Oh! that I had not so great a Life in Discourses which tend not so great to my Edification, neither in this Life, or hereafter; and more especially that which concerns my Neighbours: I am sorry many times for talking of their Business, when it has no relation to my self, as sometimes I have occasionally done, without, I fear, that due Regard I ought to have: But, O Lord, I trust in thee.  O Lord, be near me as a present Help, that I may have an Awe on my Spirit: Secondly, that I may say no more of others, than I should be willing they should of me, had I given like Occasion. This has been a Snare in some Measure to me, and I believe it is to others, did they observe it; though I hope I say nothing but Truth, yet it may draw into great Inconveniences: But, O Lord, how apt are we to stray in such things without thee; therefore I pray thee, manifest thy Light and thy Truth, that thou mayst lead and guide me continually."  </I></div> <div> Anne Gwin's prayers, 2d, 6th Mo.[August] 1714.</div> <bR> <div> She was generally a very acceptable Companion to the Soberly-inclined, unwilling to render her Associates uneasie, and was not apt to affront any body; but her Familiarity was with only a few, and those such of whom she had pretty good Knowledge.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Proposals</B> were made to her in order <B>to Marriage</B>, which <B>carried a Countenance of sufficient Grandeur</B>; yet believing them not agreeable to her Parents religious Persuasion <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >(sic)</FONT>, who would not close with any, and declared That <B>she would never Marry, rather than act therein against the Principals of her pious Eucation</B>.[Quaker]</div> <bR> <div> Her Devotion to God seem'd clear of Affection, and the private Exercise of her soul had been in some Degree a secret, had not the Day on which she died, called on her Sister, to bring forth and open her Box, and take out some Papers**, which had in them some Portions of observable Scriptures, from sayings of the fathers in relation to maidenly Behaviour, etc. But that which much affected our Spirits, were sundry very sensible Prayers, Soliloquies and Discourses of her Soul to the Lord; some of which are hereby Transcribed:  But they carried with them that Evidence of a hearty Concern, as affected the Hearts of those who heard them, and shewed how she, like the Good King <I><B>Josiah</B></I>, who while he was yet young, began to seek after God of <I><B>David</B></I> his father. </div> <bR> <div> "<I>It would be a Favour to her, if God would please to make an End of her </I><I><B>Distemper</B></I><I> what way he thought fit, either by Life or Death</I>."</div> <bR> <div> <B>She was buried from out </B>[the] <B>Meeting-House at Falmouth,</B> the 18th Day of the Second Month, [April] 1715.  Where a very numerous Company of all Sects, Sorts and Qualities of this town accompany'd her Body.  And somewhat was spoken of those virtues wherewith she was adorned, and her example proposed, especially to the Maids and the Young Women in their Blooming Years, that they might take Example of her in <I>Faith</I>, and <I>Virtue</I>, and <I>Knowledge</I>, and the <I>Temperance</I>, and <B>Patience</B>, and <I>Godlines</I>s, wherewith her life was beautified, and shin'd forth to her very Dissolution.</div> <bR> <div>  ** Anne Gwin's papers included extracts from Scriptures, Sayings, Prayers and Philosophers:-</div> <bR> <div> Job, Ch.32, v. 6-22, (she proposes Elihu, an example of Zeal and Modesty)  </div> <div> Isaiah, Ch.1., v.16-20, (showing the Necessity of Ceasing to do Evil, and learning to do Well)</div> <div> Proverbs Ch.1., v. 20-30 (Wisdom's Call)</div> <div> Proverbs Ch.III., v. 3012 <I>(Let not Mercy and Truth forsake thee, write them upon the Table of thine Heart</I>)</div> <div> Proverbs Ch. VI, v. 16-19 (Concerning those things the Lord hateth)</div> <div> Ecclesiastes Ch. XII., v. 7 & 12-14 (Dust to Earth & fear of God, keeping his commandments being Man's whole Duty)</div> <div> Corinth Ch. XIII., v. 1-7 (Properties of Charity...Beareth, believeth, hopeth and endureth all things (7))</div> <bR> <div> Hierom: </div> <div> <I>"Jesus is jealous; he would not have thy face seen: Let foolish Virgins ramble, seek thou Love at Home.</I>." </div> <div> ("written before she was fifteen years of age")</div> <bR> <div> Augustine:</div> <div> "<I>Fear not, O Bride, nor despair if thy Bridegroom withdraw his face awhile: All things will so-operate for the best, both from his Absence and from his Presence. He </I>[the Lord]<I> cometh to thee to make the consolate, he goeth to make the cautious,.</I>..."</div> <bR> <div> Bernard: </div> <div> <I>"He that is not merciful to another, shall not find Mercy from God; but if thou wilt be merciful and compassionate, thou shalt be a Benefactor to thine own Soul</I>."</div> <bR> <div> Plato:(on Philosophy)</div> <bR> <div> Socrates: (Sight and Knowledge, the Art of Prudence)</div> <bR> <div> Cowley: </div> <div> <I>"The utmost Height to which my Wish aspires, </I></div> <div> <I>That Heav'n would bless me with a small Estate, </I></div> <div> <I>Where I might find a close obscure Retreat: </I></div> <div> <I>There free from Noise and all ambitious Ends,</I></div> <div> <I> Enjoy a few choice Books, and fewer friends, </I></div> <div> <I>Lord of my self, accountable to none, </I></div> <div> <I>But to my Concience and my God alone.</I></div> <bR> <div> Randolph:</div> <div> <I>"Hear much, but little speak; a wife Man fears,</I></div> <div> <I>And will not use his Tonge as much as Ears.</I></div> <div> <I>the Tongue, if it the hedge of Truth should break,</I></div> <div> <I>May others shame, but its own ruin speak.</I></div> <div> <I>I never yet could read of any</I></div> <div> <I>Undone by Hearing, but Speaking many.</I></div> <div> <I>the Reason's this, the Ears, if chaste and holy,</I></div> <div> <I>do let in Wit, the Tongue do let out Folly."  </I></div> <bR> <div> She transcribed sundry other Moral Observations, both Verse and Prose; she had a liking to many things in a small book, said to be written by Thomas a Kempis, called , <I>The Imitations of the Life of Christ</I>, and kept it by her as long as she was able to read. </div> <div> Enough is written, we hope, to touch the Spirit of the worthy Reader, who would rather Labour by the Help of God's Grace, to walk in the Path she walked, that their ends may be Blessed and Happy, than to Carp or Cavil at the Matters here laid down.....</div> <div> With Salutation of dear Love, to all those who walk in the way of Holiness, I conclude,</div> <div> Your Friend and Well-Wisher,</div> <div> <B>Thomas Gwin</B>   [1715]</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>1721</B>   <I>London Mercury</I> Sept. 16: </div> <div> "Great Numbers of Persons, in the City, and in the Suburbs, are under the <B>Inoculation</B> of the <B>Small Pox</B>. </div> <div> Among the rest, the eldest Son of a Noble Duke in Hannover-Square, had the Small Pox Inoculated on him." </div> <bR> <div> 1721  22 Jan  The Select-Men of <B>Boston</B> published (in the New England <I><B>Courant</B></I>)  the </div> <div> "<B>Number of Persons buried in the Town, that dyed of the Small Pox, from the middle of April last, to the 20th of Jan</B>." </div> <div> May, 1; June, 8; July, 11; August, 20; Sept., 101; Oct, 411; Nov., 249; Dec, 31; To the 20th of Jan, 3; <B>in all, 841</B>. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>1722</B>  James Franklin brought out twelve pamphlets at his own risk in 1722. Eight of them can be specifically dated. </div> <div> First, on 11 January, came William Douglass, <I><B><U> </U></B></I><I><B><U>Inoculation of the Small-Pox as Practised in Boston</U></B></I>. </div> <div> On 6 March he brought out another Douglass pamphlet, <I><B><U>The Abuses and Scandals of some late pamphlets in favour of Inoculation of the Small-Pox</U></B></I><I><B>. </B></I></div> <bR> <div> 1722  15 January,  Zabdiel Boylston replied to William Douglass' <U>Inoculation of the Small Pox as Practised in Boston</U> (cf. 11 Jan) that no one was under inoculation in Boston and that "<I><B>those who were under it at Roxbury are so far recovered as to need no more visits</B></I>." [assurance?]</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.english.udel.edu/lemay/franklin/1722.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.english.udel.edu/lemay/frankl"><U>[LeMay]</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>1798 SMALL POX INOCULATION LETTER.</B> </div> <div> FL datelined <B>Baltimore, May 7, </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>1798</B></FONT> & addr to Shepherdstown, Md., hand carried, no postal mkgs, with excellent 3pg letter contents from William Moore pertaining to his recent <B>innoculation for small pox</B> & <B><U>news of the arming of American ships during the quasi war with France</U></B>. Includes: <B>"</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Monday morning this day, I was inoculated for the Small Pox, and in all probability this may be the last letter I shall ever write you....It has proved fatal here to a great many and I had several times declin'd taking the Infection</B></FONT><B>. Only one thing has persuaded on me now - that is my having a desire to make myself as much acquainted in this place as is necessary, and the risk of getting of it in the natural way...in my former situation, was oblig'd to be always in or about the house, and there under perpetual apprehension of ketching it. Bank Street is lined with it and I wonder I have escaped so long...The </B><I><B>Eliza </B></I><B>from London arrived here last Saturday and saluted the City with twelve guns; all the American vessels under the British Convoy are armed, except the </B><I><B>Montezuma</B></I><B> and </B><I><B>Carlisle</B></I><B>...they are both to be armed. The</B><I><B> Eliza</B></I><B>, happy for her being armed proved a Convoy </B><B>for two of our West India Traders from this place, which would have been captured if it had not been for her..."</B> F-VF</div> <bR> <div> <B>1800-1805</B>: References to Smallpox and Yellow Fever and the inoculation of children makes interesting reading in<A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Packet Routes"><U> </U></A><A HREF="id29_lady_nugent_s_journals.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Packet Routes"><U>Lady Nugent's Journals</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>EXCELLENT CONTENT RE YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC, SLAVES, NATCHEZ, ETC...</B>. </div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>1840</B></FONT> FL datelined Cincinnati & addr to Flemington, NJ, with faint red CINCINNATI/O. cds & ms 25. The writer was living in Natchez, Miss. but is travelling & stopping over in Cin. Includes (spelling corrected): <B>"When your letter came to Natchez, we had been out in the country 30 miles for 2 weeks on account of the prevailing epidemic....we could not get it unless we went into town and we could not think of that for we would run too great a risk for our lives...had to lie in the office till the fever ceased....see the fine clothes that the negroes would wear, the most splendid satins .....had a great many fires just before the time of the yellow fever, so that the city had to pay 3 dollars at night a piece to men to watch the city....We spent the 4th of July here, no objections, only there is so much hard cider and log cabin goods...stopped at one store and everything was log cabin..."</B> nice reference to the Wm. H. Harrison campaign. Also a lengthy and descriptive account of a tornado. 1 partial fold sep. F</div> <div> [qf. <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.stampauctioncentral.com/c/c1051.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.stampauctioncentral.com/c/c10"><U>David Phillips Co.</U></A></FONT>]</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>