1Enclosure: Oliver Wolcott, Junior, to William W. Parker, 19 September 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
It having been represented to me that the contagious fever which afflicts the City of New York has lately appeared within the prison or debtors apartment, and believing that neither justice or humanity will justify the close confinement of Prisoners, in a situation which must unavoidably expose their lives to the greatest danger, I have concluded it to be my duty to authorize you to permit...