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–Blanchard tally of locality breakouts below.

Harvard                     (37)

–37  Caulfield 1942, p. 51.[1]

Hopkinton                  (  ?)

–?  Caulfield notes a day of “Solemn Humiliation” on account of “great mortality.” (1942, p. 51)

Northborough           (  ?)

–?  Caulfield notes a day of “Solemn Humiliation” on account of “great mortality.” (1942, p. 51)

Westborough             (25)

–25  Rev. Ebenezer Parkman diary, cited in Caulfield 1942, p. 51.

Narrative Information

Caulfield: “The epidemic that began in Westborough about mid-August, 1746, was still worse than that of the year before. Parkman recorded that twenty-five children died within two months, among them four from the Barns family. Days of ‘Solemn Humiliation Fasting & Prayer on acc^t of y^e great Mortality. were observed in Westborough (September 4), Hopkinton (September 18), and Northborough (September 22). Among the thirty-seven deaths in Harvard were five Willards, four Coles, four Sawyers, and three Warners.[2] At the same time there were multiple deaths in many other Massachusetts towns, but the disease has not been identified though I suspect it was ‘Fever & Flux’.”

Sources

Caulfield, Ernest. “Some Common Diseases of Colonial Children.” Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol. 35, April 1942, pp. 4-65. Accessed 1-17-2018 at: https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/865

Nourse, Henry Stedman. History of the Town of Harvard, Massachusetts: 1732-1893. Harvard, MA: Printed for Warren Hapgood, 1894. Google digital preview accessed 1-29-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=CpQvAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

[1] Cites Henry S. Nourse. History of the Town of Harvard, Massachusetts (Harvard, 1894, p. 116). Norse refers to “the fatal endemic dysentery of 1746…” (p. 481.)

[2] Henry S. Nourse. History of the Town of Harvard, Massachusetts (Harvard, 1894, p. 116). No cause is stated.

–Dozens. Blanchard estimate based on Dawson and DeSaussure note comparing it to 1732.

Narrative Information

Dawson and DeSaussure: “It [yellow fever] again appeared [after 1732 outbreak] in 1739, 1745, and 1748, and is said to have raged as severely in these years as in 1732. The number of deaths which it caused in those years cannot now be ascertained. (p. 201.)

Duffy: “Outbreaks of yellow fever in Charleston and the ‘bilious plague’ in New York were reported in 1745, but both were unquestionably yellow fever. The New York outbreak was so diagnosed by Dr. Colden in the course of an extensive correspondence with Dr. Mitchell of Virginia. He made the point that the fever had broken out in June and commented that it always developed in the dock areas — a fact which he attributed to filthy conditions there.

“The Charleston outbreak was a more serious one. Mr. John Fordyce reported to the S.P.G.[1]in November 1745 that ‘Charles-Town, is now, & has been for some time past, very much afflicted with a great & Malignant Sickness called the Yellow Feaver, in which they die Suddenly,’ that business there ‘can Scarce be transacted,’ and that ‘the General Assembly has been Prorogu’d and Adjourn’d several times on account of said Sickness.’ Fordyce added that a fellow minister was dangerously ill presumably from the fever. ‘I may Justly say’ he added later, ‘there is Scarce a House or Family, but what some, or more have Died in it.’ Like most other attacks of the fever, these two outbreaks probably originated in the West Indies [Caribbean], for Dr. Rush specifically mentioned the prevalence of the disease in Santo Domingo during this year.” (Duffy. Epidemics in Colonial America. 1953, reprinted 1979, pp. 156-157.)

Keating: “1745.–Charleston, S.C., New York, and Stamford, Conn., were invaded.” (A History of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 in Memphis, Tenn. 1879, p. 78.)

Porter: “Yellow fever is endemic in the cities of the low country on our southern coast, including Charleston….

“Dr. John Moultrie did not believe the disease to be contagious:–

I cannot believe, with others, that this disease is propagated from one place to another by contagion, unless the atmosphere is in a fit state to produce it. In the year 1745, this disease prevailed to a very great extent in South Carolina, when it was very evident that contagion from some other place had no influence in producing it. For the first person seized with the disease that year was a sailor, who, having been drunk for two or three days in succession, afterwards fell ill of this fever, and the heat continuing excessive during the month, the fever spread widely throughout the city of Charleston. For when the weather is hot, there is danger lest an ardent fever should change into this disease of a more violent character; and I very little doubt that this is also occasioned by improper remedies and bad treatment.

(Porter, “…Incidental Remarks of the Yellow Fever of the City of Charleston.”  p. 100.)

Ramsay: “In 1745 and 1748 it [yellow fever] returned, but with less violence [than 1732][2]; however, many young people, mostly Europeans, died of it.” (Ramsay. Ramsay’s History of South Carolina. 1858, p. 47.)

Sources

Dawson, J. L. MD, and H. W. DeSaussure, MD. Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, For the Year 1848, Exhibiting the Condition and Prospects of the City, Illustrated by many Statistical Details, Prepared under the Authority of the City Council. Charleston, SC: J. B. Nixon, Printer, 1849. Google preview accessed 4-3-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=xCxNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

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

Keating, J. M. A History of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 in Memphis, Tenn. Memphis, TN: Howard Association, 1879. Google preview accessed 3-16-2018 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=WEIJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Porter, John B., MD. “On the Climate and Salubrity of Fort Moultrie and Sullivan’s Island, Charleston Harbour, S.C., with Incidental Remarks of the Yellow Fever of the City of Charleston.” Article V in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences (Isaac Hays, MD, editor), New Series, Vol. 29. Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1855. Google preview accessed 4-3-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=UgQHAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Ramsay, David (M.D.). Ramsay’s History of South Carolina, From its First Settlement in 1670 to the Year 1808, Vol. 2. Published by W. J. Duffie, Newberry, SC, printed in Charleston by Walker, Evans & Co., 1858. Digitized by archive.org and accessed 9-11-2016 at: https://archive.org/stream/ramsayshistorys00ramsgoog#page/n4/mode/2up

[1] Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.

[2] There were 130-150 yellow fever deaths in Charleston in 1732.

—>5  Hampton.[1]

–16  Kensington. Merchant. “History…Diphtheria epidemic.” Seacoastonline. 6-27-2008.

Narrative Information

Caulfield on Hampton: “….in New Hampshire, Stratham and Greenland were revisited in 1742, Newmarket in 1743, Kingston and Exeter in 1744, and Hampton in 1745.”[2] (Caulfield 1942, p. 18.)

Merchant on Kensington: “….Sawyer notes statistics of…years when ‘throat distemper’ ravaged the town — 1745 — 16 children died….”[3] (Merchant, Dean. “History in focus: Diphtheria epidemic.” Seacoastonline. 6-27-2008.)

Sources

Caulfield, Ernest. “Some Common Diseases of Colonial Children.” Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol. 35, April 1942, pp. 4-65. Accessed 1-17-2018 at: https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/865

Merchant, Dean. “History in focus: Diphtheria epidemic.” Seacoastonline. 6-27-2008. Accessed 2-17-2013: http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080627/LIFE/806270310  Also accessed 1-18-2018 at: http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/diphtheriaepidemicHU20080627.htm

[1] As can be seen below, Caulfield notes “numerous deaths…” Since we are attempting a tally we either ignore (having been unsuccessful in attempts to locate another source on numbers of deaths), or create our own number. We make assumption that “numerous deaths” would most probably be at least five, if not more, given the numbers of children who died after coming into contact with dipherthia elsewhere in colonial New England.

[2] In footnote 41, Caulfield writes: “There were numerous deaths from the ‘awful throat distemper in Hampton.” Cites: New England Genealogical Register, LVIII, pp. 29-36.

[3] The Sawyer reference is, we think, a reference to:  Roland Douglas Sawyer. The History of Kensington, New Hampshire, 1663 to 1945 (282 Years) With a Family and Homestead Register of the Pioneer Families, Early Settlers and Permanent Citizens of the Town. Kensington, NH: Woodbury Press, 1946, 404 pages.

—>60  Force. “A Proposed Code of Public Health Regulations for California.” V. X, N.6, p. 258.

—  43  Caulfield. “Some Common Diseases of Colonial Children.” Transactions. 1942, p. 49.

Narrative Information

Caulfield: “A serious epidemic in East Haven, Connecticut, began in August, 1742, and, like many other dysentery epidemics, returned the following summer, causing altogether forty-three deaths in a population of about five hundred.[1]….Here also are found the first good examples of dysentery multiple deaths: two children of Daniel Potter died on September 9; his wife and another child died on September 15; and a fourth child died on September 20. There were three deaths in both the Mallory and Moulthrop families, and two deaths each in the Austin, Roberts, Russell, and Smith families….” (Caulfield. “Some Common Diseases of Colonial Children.” Transactions. 1942, p. 49.)

Force: “In the year 1824 one Stephen Dodd, being pastor of the Congregational Church in East Haven, Connecticut, published a thin little volume wherein was set down the history and vital statistics of his town, between its settlement in 1664 and the year 1800. Those who are inclined to charge our modern congested cities with every crime against public health may read with profit the story of East Haven.

“In 1736, being then about 500 souls, the town was visited by a sickness of a throat ail which carried off twenty-six persons of all ages. Likewise, in 1742-43 there died of a dysentery with fever no less than sixty. From then on the record shows an approximate annual death rate of thirty per thousand for dysentery and fifteen for a canker rash among the children. Is this not a striking commentary on the belief that the simple country life makes for resistance that can afford to ignore sanitation?

Source

Caulfield, Ernest. “Some Common Diseases of Colonial Children.” Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol. 35, April 1942, pp. 4-65. Accessed 1-17-2018 at: https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/865

Force, John N., M.D. “A Proposed Code of Public Health Regulations for California.” Pp. 258-259 in: The California State Journal of Medicine (Philip Mills Jones, M.D., Editor).Vol. X, No. 6. San Francisco: Medical Society State of California, June, 1912. Google preview accessed 1-29-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=-7E1AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

[1] Cites, in footnote 138, Dodd, East Haven Register, p. 80.

–217  Duffy. Epidemics in Colonial America. 1953 & 1979, p. 154 (citing Mayor John Cruger).

–217  Keating. A History of the Yellow Fever… 1879, p. 78.

–217  Sternberg. “Yellow Fever:  History and Geographic Distribution.” 1908, p. 719.

–217  U.S. Marine-Hospital Service. Annual Report of…Surgeon-General…FY 1895. p. 429.[1]

Narrative Information

Duffy: “Two years later [after 1741 outbreak] yellow fever appeared again in New York City and raged from July to October, 1743. A survey by John Cruger, the mayor, showed a total of 217 deaths from July 25 to September 25, when he declared, the city was clear of the disease. The population of New York City at this date probably was around 11,000, and on the bases of this figure, the death toll ran only about 2 per cent of the total population — an insignificant figure in colonial days.”[2] (Duffy. Epidemics in Colonial America. 1953 & 1979, p. 154.)

Sources

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

Keating, J. M. A History of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 in Memphis, Tenn. Memphis, TN: Howard Association, 1879. Google preview accessed 3-16-2018 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=WEIJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Sternberg, George M. (US Public Health Service, US Marine Hospital Service). “Yellow Fever:  History and Geographic Distribution.” Pages 715-722 in Stedman, Thomas L., M.D. (Ed.) Appendix to the Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences. NY: William Wood & Co., 1908.  Google preview accessed 3-18-2018 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=3ezqX415M5wC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

United States Marine-Hospital Service, Treasury Department. Annual Report of the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States for the Fiscal Year 1895 (Document No. 1811). Washington, DC: GPO, 1896. Google preview accessed 3-16-2018 at:  http://books.google.com/books?id=aTnxAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

[1] Cites:  J.H. Griscom, Visitation of Yellow Fever, p. 3. (Toner.).

[2] Blanchard note: However, the yellow fever was primarily a three-month outbreak, or one-fourth the year.

–97 Caulfield. “Some Common Diseases of Colonial Children.” Transactions. Apr 1942, p. 18.[1]

—  2  Greenland, Cate family. Caulfield. “Some Common Diseases of Colonial Children.”

–95  Stratham.                        Caulfield. “Some Common Diseases of Colonial Children.”

Narrative Information

Caulfield: “In Stratham ‘throat ail’ caused ninety-five deaths, eighty in five months (the 1735 epidemic caused eighteen deaths). From August 1742, to January, 1743, there were six deaths in both the Calley and Stockbridge families, five in the Walter Wiggins family, four each in the William Chase, Hills, Speed and Veazey families, three each in the Abbott, Palmer, Thurston, and Tuftin Wiggins families, and two each in the Jonathan Chase, Fr., Jewet, Jones, Mason, Merrill, Norris, Rollings, Smith and Stevens families.

“Belknap, in his History of New Hampshire (III. 238, 243, 247), gives figures showing epidemics in Hampton, Newmarket, and East Kingston, although no cause is given in the case of the last two.

“The Reverend Thomas Smith identifies the disease in Exeter, Kingston, and Stratham. Journals of the Rev. Thomas Smith and the Rev. Samuel Deane, 116 (November 14, 1744).

“There were numerous deaths from the ‘awful throat distemper’ in Hampton. New Eng. Hist. Gen. Reg., LVIII, 29-36.”

Source

Caulfield, Ernest. “Some Common Diseases of Colonial Children.” Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol. 35, April 1942, pp. 4-65. Accessed 1-17-2018 at: https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/865

[1] In footnote 41, Caulfield cites For Greenland and Stratham: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XXIX, pp. 38-39, XXX, pp. 427-428, XXXII, pp. 48-49; and A Journal for the Years 1739-1803 by Samuel Lane, of Stratham (Charles L. Hanson, Ed., Concord, 1937, pp. 65 and 105).

–19  Sutton, MA.  Duffy. Epidemics in Colonial America. 1979, p. 225.

–19  By April 6. Benedict and Tracy. History of the Town of Sutton, MA 1704-1876. p. 59

—  6  Vital Records of Sutton, Mass. to the End of 1849. 1907.

–1  June 9. Sarah Putnam. Vital Records of Sutton, Mass. to the End of 1849. 1907, p453.

–1  July 19. Solomon Barnard. Vital Records of Sutton, Mass….1849. 1907, p. 398.

–1  Aug 11. Isaac Barnard. Vital Records of Sutton, Mass. …1849. 1907, p. 398.

–1  Sep 12. Amos Bacen. Vital Records of Sutton, Mass….1849. 1907, p. 397.

–1  Sep 23. Hannah Boutell. Vital Records of Sutton, Mass. …1849. 1907, p. 402.

–1  No date. E. Bond. Vital Records of Sutton, Mass. …1849. 1907, p. 401.

Narrative Information

Benedict and Tracy: “1741. April. 6. ‘Nineteen persons have died with the lung fever: many more of the throat distemper; no less than five in one Family God’s hand is upon old and young, especially upon my People.’” (p. 60.)

Duffy: “In 1741 the ‘long fever’[1] killed nineteen persons in Sutton, Massachusetts, and several others in New London, Connecticut.” (Duffy. Epidemics in Colonial America. 1979, p. 225.)

Source

Benedict, Rev. William A. and Rev. Hiram A. Tracy (compilers). History of the Town of Sutton, Massachusetts, From 1704 to 1876. Worcester: Sanford & Co., 1878. Google preview accessed 4-13-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=OnMNAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

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

Vital Records of Sutton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. Worcester, MA: Franklin P. Rice, 1907. Google preview accessed 2-9-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=nX50wTdXBaEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

[1] So-named because the victim would suffer a sometimes weeks long continuous fever.

–27  Newport Historical Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, July 1881, pp. 34-35.[1]

–23  Blanchard count of identified deaths from Newport Historical Mag. account of 27 deaths.

–17  Duffy. Epidemics in Colonial America, 1953, p. 55.

Breakout of Deaths from other sources (Duffy does not note individual deaths):

–1  At the Fort. “An Indian woman.” Newport Historical Magazine, 2/1, July 1881, 34.[2]

–1  At the Fort, June 19. Samuel Carr. Jordan. Gen. & Personal Hist. (Vol. 3), p. 1085.[3]

–1  At the Fort, June 19. Waite Carr, daughter of Samuel. Jordan. Gen & Pers. Hist. (V. 3), 1085.[4]

–1  “At the Fort.”  John Coggeshall. Newport Historical Magazine, 2/1, July 1881, p. 34.

–1  “At the Fort.” Mrs. Peleg Thurston’s mother.  Newport Hist. Mag., 2/1, July 1881, p. 34.

–1  “At the Fort.” James Hasting’s child. Newport Hist. Mag., 2/1, July 1881, p. 34.

–1  Coasters’ Harbor, Newport, John Benson. Newport Hist Mag. 2/1, July 1881, p. 35.

–1  Coasters’ Harbor, Newport. James Cahoone. Newport Hist Mag. 2/1, July 1881, p.35.

–1  Coasters’ Harbor, Newport. Mrs. Curtis. Newport Hist Mag. 2/1, July 1881, p. 35.

–1  Coasters’ Harbor, Newport. Abigail DeCourcy. Newport Hist Mag. 2/1, July 1881, 35.

–1  Coasters’ Harbor, Newport. James Peckham. Newport Hist Mag. 2/1, July 1881, p35.

–1  Coasters Harbor, Newport. Susannah Slocum. Slocum. A Short History, p. 68.[5]

–1  Coasters’ Harbor, Newport. Toby, Native. Newport Hist Mag. 2/1, July 1881, p. 35.

–1  Coasters’ Harbor, Newport. Tom Toby, Native. Newport Hist Mag. 2/1, July 1881, 35.

–1  Coasters’ Harbor, Newport. Thomas West. Newport Hist Mag. 2/1, July 1881, p. 35.

–2  Conanicut.[6] Native Americans. Newport Historical Magazine, 2/1, July 1881, p. 35.

–1  In the Neck. William Potter. Newport Historical Magazine, 2/1, July 1881, p. 34.

–1  In Town. Carr’s Indian Tom. Newport Historical Magazine, 2/1, July 1881, p. 34.

–1  In Town. A mullatto man. Newport Historical Magazine, 2/1, July 1881, p. 34.

–2  At R. Sisson’s (names not noted). Newport Historical Magazine, 2/1, July 1881, p35.

–1  At Warwick.[7] Thomas Rogers. Newport Historical Magazine, 2/1, July 1881, p. 34.

Narrative Information

Duffy: “The following summer,[8] smallpox appeared in Newport, Rhode Island. In June eleven deaths were reported and it was not until July 20 that an official statement proclaimed the epidemic at an end. As of that date, sixty-seven cases had resulted in seventeen deaths.”[9]

Source

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

Jordan, John Woolf (Editor). Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913. Accessed 3-24-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=VNQqAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Newport Historical Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, July 1881. Newport, RI: The Newport Historical Publishing Co., 1882. Google preview accessed 3-24-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=iWclAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Slocum, Charles Elihu. A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America, Genealogical and Biographical; Embracing Eleven Generations of the First-Named Family from 1637 to 1881. Syracuse, NY: Published by author, 1882. Google preview accessed 3-24-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=DYJRAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

[1] We have noted only the names noted to have died from a much longer listing by place (101 cases of smallpox and “Died, 27.” A footnote states: “From manuscript in possession of the Newport Historical Society.”

[2] “Persons Who Had the Small-Pox In Rhode Island Colony, 1739.”

[3] Also noted in: Newport Historical Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, July 1881, p. 35.

[4] Also noted in: Newport Historical Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, July 1881, p. 35.

[5] Also noted in: Newport Historical Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, July 1881, p. 35.

[6] An island just west of Newport.

[7] A few miles north, up the Narragansett Bay, west side.

[8] Previously had been writing about the winter of 1737-1738 smallpox epidemic on Martha’s Vineyard.

[9] Cites, in footnote 23, Boston Weekly News-Letter, July 19-26, 1739.

— Dozens.                   Blanchard estimate.[1]

— Severe.                     Duffy. Epidemics in Colonial America. 1953, reprinted 1979, p. 152.

— Extensive.                La Roche. Yellow Fever (Vol. 2 of 2), 1855, p. 120.

— Raged violently.      Ramsey. Ramsay’s History of South Carolina. 1858, p. 47.

Narrative Information

Duffy: “…In 1739 Charleston was again the scene of a yellow fever attack. More than likely the infection was imported from St. Christopher where earlier in the same year a major epidemic had brought death to hundreds. The Charleston outbreak, although severe, was not quite as bad as the previous one in 1732. Two S.P.G.[2] missionaries reported their congregations thinned by the many fatalities during the summer; it had been a ‘Sickly Season everywhere,’ one of them wrote, ‘especially in Town, where a Pestilential Fever carried off an abundance of its Male Inhabitants, but, God be praised, it made little Progress in ye Country.’[3] The infection seemed to attack Europeans more often than Negroes, which was logical since the slaves, coming from the African West Coast, were more likely to have an immunity to yellow fever. The comment on the failure of the disease to spread far from the city should be noted, for the characteristic limitation of yellow fever to a small locality was frequently observed.” (Duffy. Epidemics in Colonial America. 1953, reprinted 1979, p. 152.)

La Roche: “Dr. Shecut[4] [of Charleston]…remarked that the years in which the yellow fever prevailed most extensively in Charleston — 1732, 1739, 1745, and 1748 — were, with some exceptions, either excessively hot and dry, or excessively hot and moist…” (La Roche. Yellow Fever (Vol. 2 of 2), 1855, p. 120.)

Ramsey: “In the year 1739, the yellow fever raged nearly as violently as in the year 1732.[5] It was observed to fall most severely on Europeans.” (Ramsey. Ramsay’s History of South Carolina. 1858, p. 47.)

Sources

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

La Roche, Rene, M.D. Yellow Fever, Considered in its Historical, Pathological, Etiological, and Therapeutical Relations, Including A Sketch of the Disease as it has Occurred in Philadelphia from 1699-1854… (Vol. 2 of 2). Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1855. Google preview accessed 3-17-2018 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=YTrUAOOJXCAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Ramsay, David (M.D.). Ramsay’s History of South Carolina, From its First Settlement in 1670 to the Year 1808. Published by W. J. Duffie, Newberry, SC, printed in Charleston by Walker, Evans & Co., 1858. Digitized by archive.org and accessed 9-11-2016 at: https://archive.org/stream/ramsayshistorys00ramsgoog#page/n4/mode/2up

[1] Have found no death estimates, though Duffy notes this outbreak “was not quite as bad as the previous one in 1732” (which claimed between 130 and 150 lives). Thus, given other remarks that it prevailed “extensively” or “raged nearly as violently as in the year 1732,” I make assumption that at least several dozen people died.

[2] Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.

[3] Cites in footnote 27, p. 153: Ramsay, History of South Carolina, Vol. II, p. 84; Andrew Leslie to Secretary, St. Paul’s S.C., January 7, 1740, in S.P.G. MSS., B7, Pt. 2, fpp. 593-94; Stephen Roe to Secretary, ibid., fpp. 591-92.

[4] Essays, Preface, I. 92, 105.

[5] The estimated death toll from yellow fever in Charleston that year ranges from 130 to 150.