1663 — Smallpox, Fort Orange, NY and Northern “NY” Native American Tribes–<1,000

–~1,000  Reynolds.  Albany Chronicles:  A History of the City….  1906, p. 59.

Narrative Information

Reynolds: “Plague of smallpox at Fort Orange, with more than one death daily in the small settlement (a large percentage), and it is said that so many as a thousand Indians above New Amsterdam had died of it, November.”  (Reynolds.  Albany Chronicles:  A History of the City….  1906, p. 59.)

Wikipedia: “In 1663 smallpox raged in Fort Orange, killing one person a day, which was a large percentage given the small population in the fort.”[1] (Wikipedia. “Fort Orange (New Netherland).” 11-20-2013 modification.)

Sources

Reynolds, Cuyler.  Albany Chronicles: A History of the City Arranged Chronologically.  Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1906.  Digitized by Google.  Accessed at:   http://books.google.com/books?id=XNU0AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Wikipedia. “Fort Orange (New Netherland).” 11-20-2013 modification. Accessed 12-28-2-13 at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Orange_%28New_Netherland%29

[1] No source citation provided.