Hannah Rodman Fisher letter to Charity Rotch, Philadelphia, 1st mo 14th 1816

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	                             Philadelphia
                                     3d mo  9th  1818
	My dear Sister
	Uncommon occupancy has prevented informing
	my beloved sister, at an earlier period, that last
	6th day Morning- ye 6th Instant 20 minutes after
	three O Clock dear Deborah presented us with
	a little daughter which bears the Name of Han=
	=nah after its two grandmothers---she had a
	Close Conflict during which thou mayest judge of a
	mothers feelings that it seem d cause of thankful
	ness indeed when she was deliver d I have still
	some anxiety about her breasts etc-  as the babe
	seems Awkward at Sucking. 
	We have been uncommonly occupied for several
	months past in the tenth Month our attention
	was call d for to a Nephew of my Husbands, Ed-
	=ward Dors---who having had a great discharge
	 of blood we suppose from his Lungs was confined
	at a House in the Neighbourhood where he
	his wife  &  Child Boarded-   he had been
	a Prodigal Son, & had spent his Parental