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Letter, 1827
Calohill Mennis to Thomas Preston of Bedford

". . . I bought a negro fellow, a Black smith, of a certain William Fosdick. . . . some 15 or 20 years ago he had the fever when he recovered one leg was much longer than the other which always continued—but . . . his leg never seemed to Injure him--when I asked Fosdick if his Leg was worse than it used to be he replyed that it was not but on the contrary better and that he had a recipe that would he had no doubt effect a cure."

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