1Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 25 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved on the 21 st your letters of the 10 th and 13 th and learn with much concern the deaths and sickness among our people. at one plantation here we are in worse condition, 16. being now laid up with the nervous fever of whom two have died, Milly Sall ’s daughter wife of Barnaby , and a child of