—>84 Blanchard tally of Norwich and Woodbury breakouts below.

— ? Newent. One-sixth of all heads of families. Caulkins. History of Norwich, CT, p. 440.)[1]

–~40 Norwich. Duffy. Epidemics in Colonial America. 1979, p. 224.

April Nathaniel Rudd Caulkins. History of Norwich, CT, p. 239.
May 9 Mrs. Grace Read. Caulkins. History of Norwich, CT, p. 197.
July 30 John Lambert Caulkins. History of Norwich, CT, p. 259.
Aug 13 William Read Caulkins. History of Norwich, CT, p. 197.
Aug 16 John Lamb Caulkins. History of Norwich, CT, p. 235.
Aug 18 Aaron Burnham Caulkins. History of Norwich, CT, p. 259.
Aug 23 Robert Bell, MD Caulkins. History of Norwich, CT, p. 224.
Aug 29 Thomas Todd Caulkins. History of Norwich, CT, p. 241.
Oct 19 Benjamin Fitch Caulkins. History of Norwich, CT, p. 247.
Dec? Gaylor Caulkins. History of Norwich, CT, p. 272.[2]
No date. William Adams Caulkins. History of Norwich, CT, p. 259.
No date. Josiah Gaylord. Caulkins. History of Norwich, CT, p. 230.
No date. Isaac Harrington Caulkins. History of Norwich, CT, p. 231.
No date. Roger Haskell Caulkins. History of Norwich, CT, p. 248.

—>44 Woodbury. Cothren. History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut (Vol. 1). 1872, 148-49.[3]

Jan 16 Susanna Mitchell Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 635.
April 30 Patience Strong Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 703.
May 19 Ruth Wheeler Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 747.
May 22 Elnatham Strong Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 703,
May 23 Solomon Curtiss Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V2), 1553.[4]
May 25 John Steele Jr. Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 709.
May 27 Mary Walker Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 534.
May 30 Israel Steele Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 714.
June 3 Sarah Hurlbut Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 582.
June 5 Joseph Curtiss Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V2), 1555.
June 5 Samuel Hicock Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 564.
July 3 Josiah Huthwitt Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 675.
Dec 20 Mary Hurlbut Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 581.
No date. Ephraim Bancroft Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 696.
No date. John Colton Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V2), 1478.
No date. David Hicock Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 566.
No date. Hannah Hicock Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 566.
No date. John Nichols Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 657.
No date. Roger Terrill Cothren. History of… Woodbury, CT (V1), 721,

Narrative Information

Caulkins: “The inhabitants of Newent [proximate to 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.)

Cothren on Woodbury: “There have been several seasons of remarkable and alarming mortality in the town, when men seemed to die as if fated, without the power of cure or restoration. One of these seasons was in the year 1727, when disease seemed to make the burial places of the town, garner-houses for the dead. It is not now known what was the nature of this disease, which swept off the inhabitants of the new town like chaff. The records show forty-four deaths, which is probably not more than half the actual number, taking into consideration the defective state of the records, and the unusual neglect in causing deaths to be recorded, in such a time of calamity and alarm. The number of deaths entered for several years previous to, and succeeding this date, had been only from four to six each year. This was a sad decimation for a community that had struggled for years with all the wants and deprivations of the wilderness, together with the continual alarms and attacks in the Indian wars, growing out of their frontier, exposed situation.” (Cothren. History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut. 1872, pp. 148-149.)

Duffy: “A series of fever epidemics in Connecticut and Massachusetts in the years 1727, 1734, and 1737 bear some resemblance to typhoid attacks. In the summer of 1727 Norwich, Connecticut, experienced ‘a very sickly and Dying Time; Hundreds of Persons {were} Sick at once, and about Forty…Died:…the Mortality fell chiefly in one Parish, where…Died above a Sixth part of the Heads of Families.’ A similar epidemic also was reported in Woodbury, Connecticut, during this year.” (Duffy. Epidemics in Colonial America, 1979, p. 224.)

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

Cothren, William. History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, From the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1872 (Vol. 2). Woodbury, CT: William Cothren, 1872. Google preview accessed 4-13-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=uQwCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Duffy, John. Epidemics in Colonial America. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1953, reprinted 1979.

[1] In that Duffy’s description of the disease at nearby Norwich is very similar, it is possible that both writers refer to same event. Thus, not wishing to double-count, we use only numbers for Norwich.

[2] Notes that Thomas Blythe was authorized to be paid for digging “Gaylor’s Grave” Dec. 19, 1727.

[3] See Narrative Information section below. Wrote he believed many more died, but record keeping was poor.

[4] Of the “great fever.”

1727 — Summer, Typhoid Fever-like epidemic Norwich (~40) and Woodbury (>44), CT->84