The additional number to the Letters of Humanitas : together with John Hillen's, William Jenkin's & Doctor M'Kenzie's letters - and other documents, relative to Polly Elliott's case : to which is added, Mr. Jesse Hollingsworth's letter - and a reply to the same / by James Smith, physician.
- James Smith
- Date:
- February 9, 1801
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Credit: The additional number to the Letters of Humanitas : together with John Hillen's, William Jenkin's & Doctor M'Kenzie's letters - and other documents, relative to Polly Elliott's case : to which is added, Mr. Jesse Hollingsworth's letter - and a reply to the same / by James Smith, physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![*7 thi FEDERAL GAZETTE. Me/frs. Tundt & Brown, To enter into a paper war with fuch antagonifts as John Hillen, currier, efquire, and member of the city council, and William Jenkins his brother-in-law, who have oppofed the plain and jufl: ftatementof Polly Elliott's cafe, as pub- limed in your Gazette of the 20th inllant, is not my in- tention. In juflification, however, of the benevolent and difinterefted characters who witneiTed, as well as myfelf, the circumftances alluded to ; and who, in my prefence, and with my approbation and aiTifhnce informed doctor Smith of them, inthe mod cautious and particular manner, that he might make them known to the public for public good—I hope you will give a place in your ufeful paper to the followingaffidavits : Baltimore county, jf. ON this 26th of January i3oi, came before me Willi- am M'Cormick, and being duly fvvorn on the Holy Evan- gelifts of Almighty God, depofeth and faith, That the ftatement of Polly Elliott's cafe, which ap- peared in the Federal Gazette of the 20th inftant, is jufl and true ; and further this deponent faith, that when he carried the aforefaid Polly Elliott up to the health-office, he took her with him up ita'irs into the parlour of the faid Jofeph Townfend, where, & in which place, he then was & didfign her order of ad million, in his prefence & in the prefence of Polly Elliott, and no other perfon whatever; that after figning the order aforefaid, the faid Jofeph did direft this deponent to take the child home with him again ; un- lefs he would carry her to the hofpital: whereupon the faid Jofeph did uflier them out of the parlour above- mentioned, and taking the faid Felly Elliott [who was in a fick condition] by the arm, did put her down three or four Jleps from the head of the flairs, in fuch a manner'*as to endan- C](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21155100_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
