I have not yet recd any letters from Bedford by the last Mail, tho it is possible they may be now at my Office in Wall Street, to which I have not time to send before the hour at which I must be at the City Hall. On Monday last I wrote you a short letter & sent it to Clarks to be forwarded,1 communicating the intelligence that Mary had a daughter on Sunday— Both the Mother & Child are doing well. We propose calling the latter Anna Maria after her two Aunts.

People begin to be much alarmed at the Yellow Fever—2 The Merchants at first would believe nothing of it, & were enraged at the Board of Health for frightening their Customers.

Now they err on the other extreme. The truth is that we have very reasonable hopes of extinguishing the Disease, but the Risk of its spreading, is still very great. Nobody as yet has taken the Disorder except in a small District near old Slip, & those who have taken it there, & died elsewhere have in no instance communicated it. We have at last succeeded in evacuating the infected District, Sending the poor to fort stevens near Hillgate, to a place on Staten Island, & to a House at Greenwich where they are maintained by the City— Among those now sick are Mr G. Aspinwall,3 whose counting house was in the infected district, & who was loud in his opposition to the board, & his Clerk, a son of ^the^ Mrs. Johnson who lives with Mr Stuyvesant—

Please to mention to William that I have received for him the amount of Mrs Duffies Note & the Interest on his bond from Wilkins.

I sent yesterday by Jacob Shepherd a Bundle of flower roots which I beg sister Nancy to accept— We are all well— Our Love to William & sisters I am my Dear father Your very affectionate son