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- GLC#
- GLC04780
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1 November 1792
- Author/Creator
- Ellery, William, 1727-1820
- Title
- to Nancy Ellery
- Place Written
- Newport, Rhode Island
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 16.5 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Comments on Nancy's recovery from a smallpox inoculation (variolation). Congratulates her and suggests that she will make a better wife after having smallpox because it must have filled her with patience and resolution, and made her immune. Reports that Nancy's friends in Newport were surprised to learn she had undergone variolation. Ellery has also been inoculated. Comments on his old age. A Member of the Continental Congress from 1776 until 1785, William Ellery was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Nancy was his daughter.
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