I represent Susannah Jones. My husband, John, was a lieutenant in His Majesty’s 16th Regiment of Foot. The 16th arrived in Pensacola in the spring of 1770. John and I had a daughter, Anne. Anne died in infancy on November 10, 1770. Her cause of death was “teeth.” In the 18th century, if a child suffered from dehydration, malnutrition, dysentery – or any of the countless ailments infants were prone to in those days – while they were teething, the death was often blamed on the teething rather than the underlying condition. She probably still lies in an unmarked grave in Pensacola.
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