• Matthew Gilbert's descendants v.s. Epidemics…
Direct Line Ancestors
Epidemics
Matthew Gilbert b. 1599, d. 1679
Measles: Boston, Massachusetts.
Samuel Gilbert b. 4 October 1657, d. 12 January 1720/21
Measles: Boston, Massachusetts.
Yellow fever: New York, New York
Ebenezer Gilbert b. 1 July 1712, d. 18 April 1798
Measles: Boston, Massachusetts.
Smallpox: South Carolina
World-wide Influenza, lasting through 1733
Measles: Boston, Massachusetts.
Measles: Boston, Massachusetts, lasting through 1740
Abner Gilbert b. 10 January 1745, d. 1 March 1820
Measles: Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina
Influenza: North America and West Indies
Measles: All of white-inhabited North America
Influenza: North America and the West Indies
Measles: North America
Influenza: World-wide, lasting through 1776
Unknown epidemic: All of North America, especially New England
Influenza: one of the worst world-wide epidemics, lasting through 1782
Harvey G. Gilbert b. 5 October 1786, d. 14 June 1837
Measles: Philadelphia and New York
"extremely fatal bilious disorder": Dover, Delaware
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Unexplained sudden deaths: Harrisburg and Middletown, Pennsylvania
Yellow fever: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Influenza and "putrid fever": Vermont
Influenza: Virginia, killing 500 people in 5 counties in 4 weeks.
Yellow fever: Philadelphia
Yellow fever: Philadelphia, lasting through 1798
Yellow fever: New York
"Fever": started on the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania, spread nation-wide, lasting through 1823
Asiatic Cholera: nation-wide, brought in by English immigrants
Cholera: New York and other major cities
Typhus: Philadelphia
Yellow fever: nation-wide, especially severe in the southern states
Influenza: World-wide, lasting through 1848
Yellow fever: New Orleans
Cholera: Nation-wide
Influenza: World-wide, lasting through 1851
Influenza: World-wide, one of the worst on record, lasting through 1859
Smallpox: Philadelphia, lasting through 1861
through 1873: Recurring epidemics of smallpox, cholera, typhus, typhoid, scarlet and yellow fevers striking Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, and Washington.
Influenza: North America and Europe, lasting through 1875
Yellow fever: New Orleans
Typhoid: Plymouth, Pennsylvania
Yellow fever: Devastating epidemic in Jacksonville, Florida
Direct Line Ancestors
Epidemics