Married Mary Wilson in 1625 at the Saint Mary's Church in Maldon, Essex, England.
At the age 40 William Freeborn left England for America with his wife, Mary Wilson Freeborn age 33, and daughter, Sarah age 2 and daughter Mary age 7. They sailed on the Francis leaving Ipwich, Suffolk, England and arrived in Boston in April 1634. {From the book, The Planters of the Commonwealth, by Charles Edward Banks, 1967 p.122}
The family settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts in the Batisford Manor. Daughter Mary died March 6, 1664. William, his wife Mary and daughter Sarah perished within 2 weeks of each other in the Spring of 1670. Possibly they suscumbed to an epidemic. Sarah died April 23, 1670.. William Freeborn died April 28, 1670.. Mary Wilson Freeborn died May 3, 1670.
**************
I would like to thank Find A Grave contributor Pam Watson #46996044 for sending me the following information.
**************
The Pursuit of a Pestilence
BY ERNEST CAULFIELD
Page-28 AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
Cotton Mather's statement that in 1655 "an epidemical sort of cough had arrested most of the families in the country" suggests that all of these New England epidemics
were caused by the same disease. If so, it follows that influenza was sometimes very slow in spreading from one
colony to another, which is what one would expect in those
days of slow communications.
Letters written during the winter of 1660-1661 by many
persons living in different parts of New England confirm
John Hull's observations on an "epidemical cold" prevailing
not only in every town but "almost upon every person."
Hull did not seem greatly impressed with the seriousness of
the disease, no doubt because his family had it "very gently," but John Davenport, possibly influenced by his
son's alarming attack of pneumonia, wrote that in New
Haven some were "very ill and in great danger." The conflicting clinical evidence makes this epidemic difficult to classify although an incomplete list of deaths in Boston
tends to confirm John Hull's opinion of the next epidemic, that of 1670, the only information to be found is in a letter written by Richard Smith to John Winthrop, dated New London, May 2, 1670:
Here is many people dead at Rhode Island the later hand of winter and this spring 30 or 40: Mr. John Gard the Chief, others, those you know not and very sickly: still it takes them with a pain in head, stomach, & side on which follows a fever, & dies in 3 or 4 days.
This will have to be considered as a probable influenza epidemic since there are not many fulminating fevers with
pain in the side as a salient feature which can cause 30 or 40 deaths in a population of 5,000. It may be an early example of a number of colonial influenza epidemics that now seem very peculiar in that they were confined to sharply circumscribed areas.
An unusual number of different "sad disease" prevailed throughout New England during all of 1676.
∼Born about 1594 (aged 40 in 1634). Miller from Maldon, Essex, who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1634 on the "Francis." First settled in Roxbury MA; moved to Boston in 1637 & Portsmouth RI in 1638. Died at Portsmouth RI , 28 Apr 1670, "aged 80 years."
Married at St. Mary, Maldon, Essex, 25 July 1625, Mary Willson, born about 1601 (aged 33 in 1634). She died at Portsmouth RI, 3 May 1670, "aged 80 years."
JOHN ALBRO {1634, Boston} was listed in the 1634 passenger list in the family of William Freeborn, & resided with him in Portsmouth RI.
At the age 40 William Freeborn left England for America with his wife, Mary Wilson Freeborn age 33, and daughter, Sarah age 2 and daughter Mary age 7. They sailed on the Francis leaving Ipwich, Suffolk, England and arrived in Boston in April 1634. {From the book, The Planters of the Commonwealth, by Charles Edward Banks, 1967 p.122}
The family settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts in the Batisford Manor. Daughter Mary died March 6, 1664. William, his wife Mary and daughter Sarah perished within 2 weeks of each other in the Spring of 1670. Possibly they suscumbed to an epidemic. Sarah died April 23, 1670.. William Freeborn died April 28, 1670.. Mary Wilson Freeborn died May 3, 1670.
**************
I would like to thank Find A Grave contributor Pam Watson #46996044 for sending me the following information.
**************
The Pursuit of a Pestilence
BY ERNEST CAULFIELD
Page-28 AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
Cotton Mather's statement that in 1655 "an epidemical sort of cough had arrested most of the families in the country" suggests that all of these New England epidemics
were caused by the same disease. If so, it follows that influenza was sometimes very slow in spreading from one
colony to another, which is what one would expect in those
days of slow communications.
Letters written during the winter of 1660-1661 by many
persons living in different parts of New England confirm
John Hull's observations on an "epidemical cold" prevailing
not only in every town but "almost upon every person."
Hull did not seem greatly impressed with the seriousness of
the disease, no doubt because his family had it "very gently," but John Davenport, possibly influenced by his
son's alarming attack of pneumonia, wrote that in New
Haven some were "very ill and in great danger." The conflicting clinical evidence makes this epidemic difficult to classify although an incomplete list of deaths in Boston
tends to confirm John Hull's opinion of the next epidemic, that of 1670, the only information to be found is in a letter written by Richard Smith to John Winthrop, dated New London, May 2, 1670:
Here is many people dead at Rhode Island the later hand of winter and this spring 30 or 40: Mr. John Gard the Chief, others, those you know not and very sickly: still it takes them with a pain in head, stomach, & side on which follows a fever, & dies in 3 or 4 days.
This will have to be considered as a probable influenza epidemic since there are not many fulminating fevers with
pain in the side as a salient feature which can cause 30 or 40 deaths in a population of 5,000. It may be an early example of a number of colonial influenza epidemics that now seem very peculiar in that they were confined to sharply circumscribed areas.
An unusual number of different "sad disease" prevailed throughout New England during all of 1676.
∼Born about 1594 (aged 40 in 1634). Miller from Maldon, Essex, who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1634 on the "Francis." First settled in Roxbury MA; moved to Boston in 1637 & Portsmouth RI in 1638. Died at Portsmouth RI , 28 Apr 1670, "aged 80 years."
Married at St. Mary, Maldon, Essex, 25 July 1625, Mary Willson, born about 1601 (aged 33 in 1634). She died at Portsmouth RI, 3 May 1670, "aged 80 years."
JOHN ALBRO {1634, Boston} was listed in the 1634 passenger list in the family of William Freeborn, & resided with him in Portsmouth RI.
Married Mary Wilson in 1625 at the Saint Mary's Church in Maldon, Essex, England.
At the age 40 William Freeborn left England for America with his wife, Mary Wilson Freeborn age 33, and daughter, Sarah age 2 and daughter Mary age 7. They sailed on the Francis leaving Ipwich, Suffolk, England and arrived in Boston in April 1634. {From the book, The Planters of the Commonwealth, by Charles Edward Banks, 1967 p.122}
The family settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts in the Batisford Manor. Daughter Mary died March 6, 1664. William, his wife Mary and daughter Sarah perished within 2 weeks of each other in the Spring of 1670. Possibly they suscumbed to an epidemic. Sarah died April 23, 1670.. William Freeborn died April 28, 1670.. Mary Wilson Freeborn died May 3, 1670.
**************
I would like to thank Find A Grave contributor Pam Watson #46996044 for sending me the following information.
**************
The Pursuit of a Pestilence
BY ERNEST CAULFIELD
Page-28 AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
Cotton Mather's statement that in 1655 "an epidemical sort of cough had arrested most of the families in the country" suggests that all of these New England epidemics
were caused by the same disease. If so, it follows that influenza was sometimes very slow in spreading from one
colony to another, which is what one would expect in those
days of slow communications.
Letters written during the winter of 1660-1661 by many
persons living in different parts of New England confirm
John Hull's observations on an "epidemical cold" prevailing
not only in every town but "almost upon every person."
Hull did not seem greatly impressed with the seriousness of
the disease, no doubt because his family had it "very gently," but John Davenport, possibly influenced by his
son's alarming attack of pneumonia, wrote that in New
Haven some were "very ill and in great danger." The conflicting clinical evidence makes this epidemic difficult to classify although an incomplete list of deaths in Boston
tends to confirm John Hull's opinion of the next epidemic, that of 1670, the only information to be found is in a letter written by Richard Smith to John Winthrop, dated New London, May 2, 1670:
Here is many people dead at Rhode Island the later hand of winter and this spring 30 or 40: Mr. John Gard the Chief, others, those you know not and very sickly: still it takes them with a pain in head, stomach, & side on which follows a fever, & dies in 3 or 4 days.
This will have to be considered as a probable influenza epidemic since there are not many fulminating fevers with
pain in the side as a salient feature which can cause 30 or 40 deaths in a population of 5,000. It may be an early example of a number of colonial influenza epidemics that now seem very peculiar in that they were confined to sharply circumscribed areas.
An unusual number of different "sad disease" prevailed throughout New England during all of 1676.
∼Born about 1594 (aged 40 in 1634). Miller from Maldon, Essex, who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1634 on the "Francis." First settled in Roxbury MA; moved to Boston in 1637 & Portsmouth RI in 1638. Died at Portsmouth RI , 28 Apr 1670, "aged 80 years."
Married at St. Mary, Maldon, Essex, 25 July 1625, Mary Willson, born about 1601 (aged 33 in 1634). She died at Portsmouth RI, 3 May 1670, "aged 80 years."
JOHN ALBRO {1634, Boston} was listed in the 1634 passenger list in the family of William Freeborn, & resided with him in Portsmouth RI.
At the age 40 William Freeborn left England for America with his wife, Mary Wilson Freeborn age 33, and daughter, Sarah age 2 and daughter Mary age 7. They sailed on the Francis leaving Ipwich, Suffolk, England and arrived in Boston in April 1634. {From the book, The Planters of the Commonwealth, by Charles Edward Banks, 1967 p.122}
The family settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts in the Batisford Manor. Daughter Mary died March 6, 1664. William, his wife Mary and daughter Sarah perished within 2 weeks of each other in the Spring of 1670. Possibly they suscumbed to an epidemic. Sarah died April 23, 1670.. William Freeborn died April 28, 1670.. Mary Wilson Freeborn died May 3, 1670.
**************
I would like to thank Find A Grave contributor Pam Watson #46996044 for sending me the following information.
**************
The Pursuit of a Pestilence
BY ERNEST CAULFIELD
Page-28 AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
Cotton Mather's statement that in 1655 "an epidemical sort of cough had arrested most of the families in the country" suggests that all of these New England epidemics
were caused by the same disease. If so, it follows that influenza was sometimes very slow in spreading from one
colony to another, which is what one would expect in those
days of slow communications.
Letters written during the winter of 1660-1661 by many
persons living in different parts of New England confirm
John Hull's observations on an "epidemical cold" prevailing
not only in every town but "almost upon every person."
Hull did not seem greatly impressed with the seriousness of
the disease, no doubt because his family had it "very gently," but John Davenport, possibly influenced by his
son's alarming attack of pneumonia, wrote that in New
Haven some were "very ill and in great danger." The conflicting clinical evidence makes this epidemic difficult to classify although an incomplete list of deaths in Boston
tends to confirm John Hull's opinion of the next epidemic, that of 1670, the only information to be found is in a letter written by Richard Smith to John Winthrop, dated New London, May 2, 1670:
Here is many people dead at Rhode Island the later hand of winter and this spring 30 or 40: Mr. John Gard the Chief, others, those you know not and very sickly: still it takes them with a pain in head, stomach, & side on which follows a fever, & dies in 3 or 4 days.
This will have to be considered as a probable influenza epidemic since there are not many fulminating fevers with
pain in the side as a salient feature which can cause 30 or 40 deaths in a population of 5,000. It may be an early example of a number of colonial influenza epidemics that now seem very peculiar in that they were confined to sharply circumscribed areas.
An unusual number of different "sad disease" prevailed throughout New England during all of 1676.
∼Born about 1594 (aged 40 in 1634). Miller from Maldon, Essex, who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1634 on the "Francis." First settled in Roxbury MA; moved to Boston in 1637 & Portsmouth RI in 1638. Died at Portsmouth RI , 28 Apr 1670, "aged 80 years."
Married at St. Mary, Maldon, Essex, 25 July 1625, Mary Willson, born about 1601 (aged 33 in 1634). She died at Portsmouth RI, 3 May 1670, "aged 80 years."
JOHN ALBRO {1634, Boston} was listed in the 1634 passenger list in the family of William Freeborn, & resided with him in Portsmouth RI.
