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To Alexander Hamilton from Staats Morris, 23 September 1799

From Staats Morris1

Fort McHenry [Baltimore, Maryland] September 23, 1799. “… I am extremely sorry to inform you Sir, that an epidemic is raging to an alarming degree in my Garrison, and on that account it is very fortunate that so many men have been sent out of the way of it. My nephew Lieut. Lawrence2 fell a victim to it yesterday, after only four days ilness. I shall this day give orders to have the men encamped at a distance from the barracks and shall remove my family immediately.…”

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. A resident of New York, Morris was a captain in the First Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers.

2. Thomas John Lawrence.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Staats Morris, 23 September 1799
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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Staats Morris, 23 September 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-23-02-0424. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 23, April 1799 – October 1799, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976, pp. 463–464.]

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