A collection of affidavits and certificates, relative to the wonderful cure of Mrs. Ann Mattingly : which took place in the city of Washington, D.C. on the tenth of March, 1824.

William Matthews

Date:: 1824

Credit: A collection of affidavits and certificates, relative to the wonderful cure of Mrs. Ann Mattingly : which took place in the city of Washington, D.C. on the tenth of March, 1824. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$92 of the most amiable, charitable, pious, Christian ladies, that I knew, made me entertain for them a maternal affection. However, mv great ag'e (being' near seventy,) and my infirmities, prevented me from beinL' with them, and especially with Mrs. Mattingly, as often as I could have wished. JANE ROSE, Sworn to, before me, on this 8th day of May, 1824. C. H. W. WHARTON. [Seal.] Justice of the Peace. No. 20. MRS. ELIZA CASSIN. City mid County of JVashiny^ion, „ District of Columbia, 5 On this 27th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1824: personally appears before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid, Mrs. Eliza Cassin, widow of the late Major Joseph (Jassin, who being sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, that she has frequently visited Mrs. Ann Mattingly, sister of Thos. Carbery esq. Mayor of the city of W ashington, during the last 6 years, particulaidy during the week immediately preceding, and only two days before her I’estoration to health; and ahvays found her in a state of great apparent suhering, and sometimes in the utmost agony, that she has of- ten been informed, that it was the opinion of her ph} sicians, that her ma- lady was incurable. That, for a few days previous to the tenth of the present month, this deponent was on a visit to a friend in the city of Washington, and on the 9th of this month, she sent a messenger to cap- tain Carbery’s, to inquire how Mr. Mattingly was, and she received for answer, that “she was as ill as she could be to be alive.” I'hat in con- sequence of this message, she went on the morning of the 10th, at about 10 o’clock, to captain Carbery’s, in the expectation of finding Mrs, Mat- tingly dead or dying; b\it on arriving at the house, to her great asto- nishment and wonder she was told that Mrs. Mattingly was wmll. And ^.hat on this deponent’s entering the chamber of Mrs. Mattingly, she found her on the bed, and shook this deponent by the hand; but before she left the house, saw her get up, and meet the clergyman at the door, and* except in her loss of iiesh, had to this deponent the appearance of being in sound health, and in possession of a fine flow of spirits. ELIZA CASSIN, Sworn to, and subscribed before WALTER NEWTON, [Seal.] No. 21. MISS MARIA ANN BOOTH. Washington City, JMarch 24<A, 1824. It is more than six years since Mrs. Mattingly was taken sick. W'hen I first went to see her, she was lying to all appearances, lifeless; and her friends told me, they could only tell she breathed, by holding a glass to her face. I visited her very frequently in her sickness, and have seen her sulfer more from violent pain, than any one I ever saw. I have con- versed with her often, about her situation, and she has told me, she could not speak without its giving her pain. She always complained of her$