Name/Title
Notes on Black Death and a poemEntry/Object ID
2000.FIC.02.326Scope and Content
Handwritten notes in ink concerning the Black Death with "12" at the top of the page. The reverse has a poem concerning those names contained in a scrapbook.
12
Cressy and Calais was made memorable by the plague which after spending itself on the Southern States of Europe, settled upon England, known in history as the Black Plague.
About half of the inhabitants of Britain fell before its poisonous sweep and its is said that the sheep and cattle strayed through the fields and corn and there were none left that could drive them.
Back:
Golden be the chain which to bind
Every name you in this album
On every page may someone write
Remembrances to help the links more bright
Give one thought to the last words friend
Every remember me as your constant friend.
Laura E. Cahoon
Every remembering your constant friend.
[The Black Death, a devastating bubonic plague pandemic, reached England in 1348 via a ship from Calais, France, carrying the disease to Melcombe Regis, Dorset, and spreading rapidly throughout the southwest. More under notes.]Collection
Early Family Papers: CahoonRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Cahoon, Laura
