Here is a list of plagues in this country that may explain some of our
missing ancestors
1633 Smallpox Among Indians
1648 Smallpox
1648 Smallpox
1657 Measles in Boston
1662 Smallpox New York
1668 Yellow Fever New York
1677 Smallpox Boston
1687 Measles Boston
1690 Yellow Fever New York
1699 Yellow Fever South Carolina
1702 Yellow Fever New York
1702 Scarlet Fever Boston
1706 Yellow Fever South Carolina
1713 Measles Boston
1721 Smallpox Boston
1723 Influenza World Wide
1728 Yellow Fever South Carolina
1729 Measles Boston
1732 Yellow Fever South Carolina
1732 Influenza World Wide
1735 Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever US and four years in New England
1738 Smallpox South Carolina
1739 Measles Boston
1743 Yellow Fever New York
1747 Measles CT, NY, PA, SC
1759 Measles North America
1761 Influenza US and West Indies
1763 Smallpox Boston
1772 Measles US
1775 Influenza World Wide
1783 Bilious Disorder US Fatal
1788 Measles PA NY
1789 Influenza US
1792 Yellow Fever US 7 Years
1793 Unknown PA
1793 Influenza Vermont, Virginia
1802 Smallpox Nebraska
1803 Yellow Fever New York
1820 Fever US
1826 to 1837 Cholera World Wide
1826 Dengue Fever US and West Indies
1829 Malaria US
1831 Cholera UK Started World Wide in 1826
1831 Cholera US
1832 Influenza US
1833 Cholera Ohio
1834 Cholera New York
1837 Typhus PA
1837 Smallpox Among Indians
1841 Yellow Fever US
1847 Measles Among Indians
1847 Yellow Fever New Orleans
1847 Influenza World Wide
1848 Cholera World Wide
1850 Yellow Fever US
1860 Yellow Fever US
1850 Influenza US
1850 Dengue Fever US
1851 Cholera Illinois
1852 Yellow Fever New Orleans
1853 Cholera Unsure as to Location
1855 Yellow Fever US
1857 Influenza World Wide
1860 Smallpox PA
1865 Smallpox US
1865 Typhus US
1868 Smallpox US For 7 Years
1873 Influenza UK, North America and Europe
1873 Cholera US
1878 Yellow Fever New Orleans
1885 Typhoid PA
1886 Yellow Fever Florida
1889 Ingluenza World Wide
1893 Polio US 1st known outbreak
1900 Plague US
1901 Smallpox US
1907 Polio Us 7 Years
1917 Influenza World Wide worse ever
1931 Polio US
1942 Polio US 11 years