I represent Dr. James Chalmers. I was the Surgeon attached to His Majesty’s 31st Regiment of Foot, which position I had held since April 1744. I arrived in Pensacola with the regiment in 1765; and served as their surgeon until I fell prey to one of the many diseases that swept through the army in those early days of the colony. I died on August 10, 1765 of “putrid fever,” which probably referred to typhus.
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