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Excerpt from The Family Record of David Rittenhouse: Including His Sisters Esther, Anne and Eleanor, Also Benjamin Rittenhouse and Margaret Rittenhouse Morgan Instead of leaving the city during the time of the yellow fever, 1793, he remained in the city, and was a leader of those who devoted their time and money to the establishing of hos pitals for the relief of the sick. No doubt many lives were saved through his action, although he became a prey to the disease and died while engaged in the good cause. Their children were Esther, David and Frances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.