Putrid Fever Takes 150 in One Town

Re-printed from the New Hampshire Gazette, July 12, 1771 Duxboro’, July 5, 1771:  A very malignant putrid fever has, for some time past, much prevailed in this town;  about 150 persons, chiefly children, having had it in the course of a few months; to a considerable proportion of whom it has proved fatal.  More especially […]Continue Reading »

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