1726 — Summer, Unknown Typhoid Fever-like Epidemic, Newent Parish, Norwich, CT ~20

–~20  Caulkins. History of Norwich, Connecticut. 1874, p. 440.

Narrative Information

Caulkins: “The inhabitants of Newent [Parish of Norwich], in a petition to the General Court, October session, 1727, state that they had been afflicted with a distressing sickness for two successive years, especially in summer. In 1726, every family but one was smitten, and about twenty persons died in three months. In the summer of 1727, every family with no exception felt the scourge, and one-sixth of the male heads of families died. The farmers could not secure their crops, and though kindly assisted by people from other parishes, they lost some of their grain and much of their hay.” (p. 440.)

Source

Caulkins, Frances Manwaring. History of Norwich, Connecticut, From Its Possession by the Indians to the Year 1866. Published by the Friends of the Author, 1874. Google preview accessed 4-13-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=DlWDnPZo4K0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false