McKean deaths in NH, 1811
I am not a McKean descendant, but I thought that some McKean researchers might be interested in the latest issue of the New York Genealogical and Biographical RECORD (Vol. 136, Number 2).There is an ongoing article called “Deaths from THE LADIES’ MISCELLANY OR THE WEEKLY VISITOR, New York, 1810-1811.”These are death notices from this early periodical, not just from New York City or State.
On p. 115 of the RECORD, there is the following death notice dated Saturday, January 26, 1811, from p. 222 of the original:
“At Danville [N.H.] –
At Corinth, of the Small Pox, on the 27th of October last, Robert M’Kean, of Londonderry;
November the 5th, Cyrus, son of John M’Kean, aged 9 months;
about 8 o’clock the same morning Lydia, daughter of David M’Kean, aged 4 years;
in the evening of the same day, about 8 o’clock, Lydia, wife of David M’Kean and daughter of James Ingalls, esq. of Methuen (Mass.) aged 43.Thus God has called for and taken a brother-in-law, a grandchild, a lovely daughter and an endearing wife, in this solemn manner.”
Likewise on the 7th of Nov. Hannah Crock, daughter of Charles Crooh (sic) aged 16 years.(We understand that seventeen of the inhabitants of Corinth took the Small Pox the natural way, out of which number the above persons died – and that its progress was completely arrested, by the introduction of vaccine inoculation.”)