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1. Letter from John Ball Sr. to his Son John Ball Jr., April 17, 1802

Letter from John Ball Sr. to his Son John Ball Jr., April 17, 1802
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1802-04-17
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A letter from John Ball Sr. at Kensington Plantation to his son John Ball Jr. at Harvard College in Massachusetts discussing the weather, Jane Ball's health, an outbreak of measles in Charleston and small pox at Midway Plantation, the inoculation of forty enslaved persons, a publication from Doctor Waterhouse on diseases, and the death of cattle due to a drought.

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