"Stephen Strong (son of Jedediah Strong and Abiah Ingersoll) … m. Jan. 16, 1718, Abigail Buell … dau. of John Buell of Litchfield, Ct, and Mary Loomis … They were a married pair for 67 years. Five of (their) children: Lydia, Peter, Abel, Hannah, and Reuben, died within ten days of each other of 'the black throat distemper,' as it was called."