Sunday, February 13, 2022
The Smallpox War
M.E. Bradford, A Worthy Company: Brief Lives of the Framers of the United States Constitution (Marlborough: Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1982), p. 9:
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During the "smallpox war" in Marblehead in 1773-1774, mobs of angry fisher folk had threatened to injure the property and persons of the Gerry family because of their involvement in the erection of a pest house on Cat Island and their promotion of inoculation.
