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| Years | Area | Epidemic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1628-1631 | New England | Small Pox | |
| 1638 | New England | Small Pox & Spotted Fever | |
| 1648-1649 | Massachusetts Bay Colony | Small Pox | |
| 1657-1658 | Boston | Measles | |
| 1659 | Massachusetts Bay Colony | Throat Distemper | |
| 1677-1678 | Charlestown & Boston | Small Pox | |
| 1679-1680 | Virginia | Small Pox | |
| 1687 | Boston | Measles | |
| 1689-1690 | New England | Small Pox | |
| 1690 | New York | Yellow Fever | |
| 1693 | Boston, MA | Yellow Fever | |
| 1696 | Jamestown, VA | Small Pox | |
| 1699 | Charleston & Philadelphia | Yellow Fever | |
| Mar 1699 | South Carolina | Small Pox | |
| 1702 | New York | Yellow Fever | |
| 1702-1703 | Boston, MA | Small Pox | |
| 1706 | Charleston | Yellow Fever | |
| 1711-1712 | South Carolina | Small Pox | |
| 1713 | Boston | Measles | |
| 1715-1725 | Most of the Colonies | Small Pox | |
| 1721 | Boston, MA | Small Pox | |
| 1723-1730 | Boston, New York, Philadelphia | Small Pox | |
| 1729 | Boston | Measles | |
| 1732 | Charleston & New York | Yellow Fever | |
| 1732-3 | Worldwide | Influenza | |
| 1735-1740 | New England | Small Pox, Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria | |
| 1734 | Virginia | Yellow Fever | |
| 1738 | South Carolina | Smallpox | |
| 1739-40 | Boston | Measles | |
| 1741 | Virginia | Yellow Fever | |
| 1747 | CT,NY,PA,SC | Measles | |
| 1752 | Boston, MA | Small Pox | |
| 1759 | N. Amer [areas inhabited by white people] | Measles | |
| 1760-1761 | Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachussetts, Charleston | Small Pox | |
| 1761 | N. Amer and West Indies | Influenza | |
| 1762 | Philadelphia | Yellow Fever | |
| 1763 | Philadelphia | Throat Distemper | |
| 1764 | Boston, MA | Small Pox | |
| 1769 | New York | Throat Distemper | |
| 1772 | N. America | Measles | |
| 1772-1774 | New England | Small Pox | |
| 1775 | N. Amer [especially hard in NE] | epidemic Unknown | |
| 1775-6 | Worldwide [one of the worst epidemics] | Influenza | |
| 1776 | Boston, MA | Small Pox | |
| 1778 | Boston, MA | Small Pox | |
| 1783 | Dover, DE ["extremely fatal"] | Bilious Disorder | |
| 1788 | Philadelphia and New York | Measles | |
| 1792 | Boston, MA | Small Pox | |
| 1793 | Vermont | [a "putrid" fever] and Influenza | |
| 1793 | VA [killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks] | Influenza | |
| 1793 | Philadelphia [one of the worst epidemics] | Yellow Fever | |
| 1793 | Harrisburg, PA [many unexplained deaths] | Unknown | |
| 1793 | Middletown, PA [many mysterious deaths] | Unknown | |
| 1794 | Philadelphia, PA | Yellow Fever | |
| 1796-7 | Philadelphia, PA | Yellow Fever | |
| 1798 | Philadelphia, PA [one of the worst] | Yellow Fever | |
| 1803 | New York | Yellow Fever | |
| 1820-3 | Nationwide [starts-Schuylkill River and spreads] | "Fever" | |
| 1831-2 | Nationwide [brought by English emigrants] | Asiatic Cholera | |
| 1832 | NY City and other major cities | Cholera | |
| 1833 | Columbus, OH | Cholera | |
| 1834 | New York City | Cholera | |
| 1837 | Philadelphia | Typhus | |
| 1841 | Nationwide [especially severe in the south] | Yellow Fever | |
| 1847 | New Orleans | Yellow Fever | |
| 1847-8 | Worldwide | Influenza | |
| 1848-9 | North America | Cholera | |
| 1849 | New York | Cholera | |
| 1850 | Nationwide | Yellow Fever | |
| 1850-1 | North America | Influenza | |
| 1851 | Coles Co., IL, The Great Plains, and Missouri | Cholera | |
| 1852 | Nationwide [New Orleans-8,000 die in summer] | Yellow Fever | |
| 1855 | Nationwide [many parts] | Yellow Fever | |
| 1857-9 | Worldwide [one of the greatest epidemics] | Influenza | |
| 1860-1 | Pennsylvania | Smallpox | |
| 1865-73 | Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans | Smallpox | |
| Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC | Cholera | ||
| A series of recurring epidemics of: | Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever | ||
| 1873-5 | N. America and Europe | Influenza | |
| 1878 | New Orleans [last great epidemic] | Yellow Fever | |
| 1885 | Plymouth, PA | Typhoid | |
| 1886 | Jacksonville, FL | Yellow Fever | |
| 1918 | Worldwide[high point yr] more people were hospitalized in WWI from this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps, with 80% death rate in some camps | Influenza |
Sept-Oct, 1997, Newsletter - Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County "Source: Ancestors West, SSBCGS, Vol 20, No l, Fall 1993, South Bend (IN) Area Genealogical Society via Julie Burnett, Sue in Arizona and Judy Nordgren SMCAGS
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Alison Franks
Archivist, Rawson FAmily
Association
Epidemics in Colonial America by John Duffy. baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1953. From the first 4 chapters.
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