I represent David Peacock. I was a private in His Majesty’s 31st Regiment of Foot, Capt. Thomas Hodgson‘s company The 31st was an infantry regiment stationed at the garrison of Pensacola. We arrived in 1765, and the rest of the regiment (with a brief transfer to St. Augustine in 1769) was not transferred out of West Florida until 1772. I was one of the many who died within the first couple of years of the illnesses that swept through the garrison. I died on September 18, 1765, of bilious fever (which was an 18th century term for any disease that caused nausea and vomiting and yellowing of the skin or eyes – in this case, yellow fever). I probably still lie in an unmarked grave in Pensacola.
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