Mint employees promise to return after Yellow Fever epidemic - 1803.
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Epidemics of yellow fever were annual events in Philadelphia during the time of the first U.S. Mint. Here's one of several documents where employees promise to return when the annual epidemic has run its course.
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<< <i>Is that a stain on the paper or a map of the English coastline? >>
Probably vomit from someone with yellow fever.
<< <i>Water stain. >>
Did you scratch and sniff
<< <i>Well, did they return? >>
The ones that didn't die...
That handwriting is really difficult to read, and there are some words that I cannot make out.
“We the Workmen and Laborers now employed in the Mint of the United States ––
Do agree to return to our different employments in said Mint after this present infectious Disease & the health of the City is returned, when the Mint shall open. Witness our hands this twenty-third day of September 1803.”
WTB: Barber Quarters XF
<< <i>Very interesting topic from a long-past era. We forget the day-to-day issues earlier Americans dealt with. Thanks for sharing.
and how they dealt with them