B. Trapnell taken
unwell with a sick stomach and fever; Dr Parke attends him. He continued ye
same till ye morning of ye 9th, without our being apprehensive of the danger he
was in, or Dr Parke, tho' Benny had desired him to call in Dr Kearsley—who did
not see him till ye 9th, when he was much changed for the worse. His fever had
changed to billious; he departed this life about 4 o'clock, ye morning of ye
10th—First day—and was so much changed by 9 o'clock, that ye Doctors advised by
all means to bury him that day, which was accordingly done, between 7 and 8
o'clock in ye evening.
Benny was in his
27th or 28th year—much lamented by all of us.
SOURCE: Henry D.
Biddle, Editor, Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker
from 1759 to 1807, A.D., p. 39
