Family:Simon Stone and Sarah Farnsworth (1)

Facts and Events
Marriage[1] Abt 1685
Children
BirthDeath
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30 Sep 1723
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10 Sep 1777
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23 Sep 1758
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1708

There was apparently a widespread smallpox epidemic in the American colonies beginning in 1723, which may be the cause of the Sep 1723 deaths of at least three of the children in this family. - Duffy, John. Epidemics in Colonial America, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1953)

References
  1. Bartlett, J. Gardner. Simon Stone genealogy : ancestry and descendants of Deacon Simon Stone of Watertown, Mass., 1320-1926. (Boston: Stone Family Association, 1926)
    p. 60.

    Dea. Simon 3 Stone married about 1685 [oldest child Simon, b. 1 Aug 1686] Sarah Farnsworth, d/o Matthias Farnsworth and Mary Farr.