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The report of Lewis Johnston MD relative to the small pox on the Bay Shore in the county of Annapolis among the Indians. Information having been [?layed] with Richard James Esq J.P. I under his directions visited the aforesaid district. and report as follows -

I found [[illegible - crossed out] two Indians labouring under smallpox. One of them had been ill six days and exhibited all the symptoms of confluent small pox. The other was attacked at a more recent period