1Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, 15 May 1755 (Franklin Papers)
...sufficient water, suffering from dysentery, typhus, and scurvy, near-starving, seasick...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 20 May 1775 (Franklin Papers)
...plot matured she died of a disease, perhaps typhus, that was epidemic in Celle at the time...
3From George Washington to Brigadier General John Sullivan, 10 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
...Feb. 1777 and commanded a brigade until he died of typhus at Paramus, N.J., on 8 Sept. 1780...
4To George Washington from Benjamin Rush, 25 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
...soldiers and civilians who died during the typhus epidemic at Bethlehem in the fall and...
5To George Washington from Henry Laurens, 3 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
...delegate to Congress from March 1778 until he died of typhus in September 1779.
6To Benjamin Franklin from Francis Hopkinson, 5 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
William Henry Drayton died of typhus on Sept. 3:
7From John Adams to Benjamin Franklin, 25 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
.... The term “nervous fever” is another name for typhus in medical reference books of the time...
8Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 9 August 1783 (Madison Papers)
...349). Although “camp fever” usually meant typhus or typhoid fever, the term was often...
9Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 15 October 1784 (Adams Papers)
Probably either typhus or diptheria; the term “putrid fever” was used...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 15 December 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...formerly called a nervous fever, now a typhus, distinguished very certainly by a thread-like...
11John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 June 1789 (Adams Papers)
...dating back to his time in Amsterdam, possibly malaria or typhus, see
12To George Washington from Thomas McKean, 17 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
A Treatise upon the Typhus Fever: Published for the Benefit of Establishing a Lying-...
13To George Washington from George Buchanan, 21 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Treatise upon the Typhus Fever: published for the benefit of establishing a Lying-...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 2 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
...commonly a yellow fever, but by the physicians Typhus gravior. Begins with a pain in the head...
15From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [12 September 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
..., bilious fever which soon assumed a typhus character, attendant with symptoms which...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 3 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...response to increasing mortality from epidemics of yellow fever and typhus at
17To James Madison from William Kirkpatrick, 30 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Typhus.
18To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Spencer, Jr., and Joseph C. Field , 24 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...shipped them to Louisiana, where he died of typhus the following year (Frank Hasbrouck, ed...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Elizabeth House Trist, 10 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...nervous fever,” possibly an indication of an outbreak of typhus (RCs in
20From Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 15 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...lest a recurrence of fever should degenerate into Typhus. I should suppose the system of...
21To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 16 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...Lord Mayor, from what was later determined to be endemic typhus (Jerry White,
22To Thomas Jefferson from William Thornton, 1 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
...in the West Indies or in Africa of the Typhus kind, or the plague itself from the Levant...
23Jonathan Law to Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
may have been an outbreak of spotted fever (typhus) in
.... he had himself a fever calld here the Typhus his daughter Harriot was Seizd with the same...
25From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
...—About a month ago he was seized with a Typhus fever, and died after a fortnights illness—He...
26From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 8 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
..., poor Carolines Husband, both of a Billious typhus fever, after ten Days Sickness—at the...
I hear that Quincy Tufts has had the typhus fever very bad—I hope he has recovered—I have...
28To James Madison from Robert Patterson, 20 April 1813 (Madison Papers)
Typhus fever.
29To John Adams from James Rush, 21 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
...the side—his system soon sunk into that typhus state that now so generally marks the diseases...
...death after a few days illness with the typhus fever—he who from principles of benevolence,...
...were applied; he soon had symptoms of a typhus fever, which upon the fifth day, put...
32Samuel K. Jennings to Thomas Jefferson, 30 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
typhus or Slow-fever as it
33Samuel R. Demaree to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
A fever, I suppose a typhus of malignant grade, is now rife in many parts:...
...by its continuance we think it must be the Typhus fever—Mr Humphrey Noyes, was in health,...
35To James Madison from Thomas Hall and Others, 23 November 1814 (Madison Papers)
...much distressed by Phlegmatic complaints, and typhus fevers; and we think those...
36From William Stephens Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, 31 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
...as you will notice by the enclosed—The Typhus fever glows at the navy yard and the...
37To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 17 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
...’s warrant on 1 Jan. 1817. He died of typhus fever in late 1818 while on a cruise in the...
38Francis C. Gray’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, [4–7 February 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
the Typhus, and
39Eusebio Valli to Thomas Jefferson, 5 June 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Du Typhus d’Amérique ou Fièvre JauneDu Typhus d’Amérique
40Peter S. Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, 22 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
lies very ill of the Typhus fever, combined with a pectoral affection. This is the...
41Robert Walsh to Thomas Jefferson, 27 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
was thus prematurely carried off by a most malignant typhus-fever.
...; and Some of them Still are Sick, with the Typhus fever—they are a most distresst Family.
43Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 25 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
health; typhus [index entry] typhus [index entry]
44From James Madison to James Monroe, 19 November 1820 (Madison Papers)
A fever, of the Typhus denomination, which has for some months been rambling in...
45From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 7 January 1821 (Madison Papers)
We have had for several months a typhus fever in the family, which does not yield in...
46James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 7 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
We have had for several months a typhus fever in the family, which does not yield in...
47To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 13 January 1821 (Madison Papers)
...formerly called a nervous fever, now a typhus, distinguished very certainly by a thread-like...
48Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 13 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
...formerly called a nervous fever, now a typhus, distinguished very certainly by a thread-like...
49From James Madison to Francis Corbin, 21 May 1821 (Madison Papers)
..., a severe visitation of a fever of the typhus character. The cases amounted to between 40 and...
50From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 7 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
...him so ill as to be apprehensive of a Typhus fever. As your father wished us to accompany...