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Bracket Leavitt

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Bracket Leavitt

Birth
Death
8 Feb 1813 (aged 10–11)
Pittsfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA
Burial
Pittsfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA Add to Map
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Spotted Fever - a form of malignant typhus that was epidemic in New England, New York and Pennsylvania from 1807 to 1815. It was most prevalent and fatal in 1812 and 1813.
Spotted Fever - a form of malignant typhus that was epidemic in New England, New York and Pennsylvania from 1807 to 1815. It was most prevalent and fatal in 1812 and 1813.

Inscription

In memory of
Bracket
Son of Thomas &
Hannah Leavitt.
the first who died of the Spotted
fever in Pitsfield Feb-y 8th 1813
in his 11th year.

As the rose by rude hands cropd
So was I snatchd from fond parents



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