I take the present opportunity of informing you that several of your negroes [are] sick at this time. Juliann & Claricy with the fever . Claricy is mending some but Juliann is dangerous. I thank her case a doubtful one. Some of the rest sick, mingo Sibby Charity & Leven.

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Source: Howell Cobb Family Papers (MS 1376), Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.