Parents:
Morgan Lewis (1681 – 1713)
Abigail Ingersoll (1681 – 1715)
Siblings:
Patience Lewis "Garey" (1708 – 1796)
EPIDEMIC AMONG CHILDREN DURING 1735
In May of 1735, a pestilential disease among children began in Kingston, New Hampshire called Throat Distemper of the most malignant kind where none recovered and death was inevitable. It's symptoms generally were, a swelled throat, with white or ash-colored specks, an efflorescence on the skin, great debility of the whole system, and a tendency to putridity. Few adults were affected; its principal ravages were among persons under age, or rather under puberty.
In August, it appeared in Exeter, New Hampshire. By September, it spread to Boston, Massachusetts and then to Chester, Orange County, New York in October. Many families lost 3 or 4 children if not all of them, so it is likely how these children of the Lewis family died.
Excerpt taken on page 233 from Evans Early American Imprint Collection on epidemic and pestilential diseases.
Parents:
Morgan Lewis (1681 – 1713)
Abigail Ingersoll (1681 – 1715)
Siblings:
Patience Lewis "Garey" (1708 – 1796)
EPIDEMIC AMONG CHILDREN DURING 1735
In May of 1735, a pestilential disease among children began in Kingston, New Hampshire called Throat Distemper of the most malignant kind where none recovered and death was inevitable. It's symptoms generally were, a swelled throat, with white or ash-colored specks, an efflorescence on the skin, great debility of the whole system, and a tendency to putridity. Few adults were affected; its principal ravages were among persons under age, or rather under puberty.
In August, it appeared in Exeter, New Hampshire. By September, it spread to Boston, Massachusetts and then to Chester, Orange County, New York in October. Many families lost 3 or 4 children if not all of them, so it is likely how these children of the Lewis family died.
Excerpt taken on page 233 from Evans Early American Imprint Collection on epidemic and pestilential diseases.
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