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
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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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    Cinff my last visit, I thought that she was In the act of expiring*. I saw her sixteen days before her cure. TnQPPTT PARRFRY St. Inigoes’ Manor, March 22, 1824, JOSEPH CARBEK . St. Mary’s County, Maryland. , , State o f Maryland, 2 . St. Mary’s County, 5 On this twenty-second day of March, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, personally appears the Rev. Joseph Carbery before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace of the said state, for the oountv aforesaid, and makes oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, that tile above certificate as stated, is just and true, to the best ot his knowledge »nd belief. No. 28. dr. JAMES W. ROACH. St, Mary’s County, March 29th, 1824, I hereby certify, that I hare several times seen Mrs. Mattingly, during the last six years; that I always found her sick, several times extremely ill. That I had reasons to believe she never would recover. I was as- tonished that she could survive so long^, reduced as she was to such a state of debility. JAME8 W. ROACH, M. D. No. 29. MR. JAMES M’WILLIAMS. I have, for the last five or six years, visited the family of Thomas Car- bery esq, Mayor of Washington City; and, when there, always saw Mrs, Ann Mattingly, who was sick; and when I saw her at last so much re- duced, I was astonished to find that she lived so long, nor did I think that medicine could cure her. March 29th, 1824. JAMES M’WILLIAMS. No. 30. MISS ELEANOR McWILLTAMS. I have for five or six years past, once a year, visited Washington City; and when there, I went to see Mrs. Ann Mattingly, and found her much seduced from sickness; and the last time she was so weak that I could not understand what she said, unless I went to the bed to her, nor did I ever expect she would recover her health again. ELEANOR McWilliams. March 29th, 1824. St. Mary’s County, Set. March 29th, 1824, Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the state of Maryland, in and for the county as aforesaid. Dr. James W. Roach, James McWilliams, and Eleanor McWil- liams, and each of them made oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, that the foregoing certificates, as signed by themselves, are true to the best of their knowledge and belief. Sworn before GEORGE McWilliams, [seal.]