. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . oke out inour midst that next summer. In April they had votedto have an Enoculation * for the Small Pox opened in thistown where it may be most advantajus and least prejudi-tial to the Inhabitants thereof. This hospital for the smallpox was builtupon an open pasturesoutheast of LittleHarbor near a smallstream called the Mo-hawk. Beach Streetwas not then cutthrough to AtlanticAvenue, and a merewood road led to thehospital. The keeper wasMrs. Daniel Tower(Bethiah Nichols), adauntless womanwho was nicknamed Resolution is sai
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . oke out inour midst that next summer. In April they had votedto have an Enoculation * for the Small Pox opened in thistown where it may be most advantajus and least prejudi-tial to the Inhabitants thereof. This hospital for the smallpox was builtupon an open pasturesoutheast of LittleHarbor near a smallstream called the Mo-hawk. Beach Streetwas not then cutthrough to AtlanticAvenue, and a merewood road led to thehospital. The keeper wasMrs. Daniel Tower(Bethiah Nichols), adauntless womanwho was nicknamed Resolution is said to havecarted water in bar-rels from Lily Pondto water the cornduring a droughtwhile the menwere away in theRevolutionary War. She lived on King Street, andwas the mother of the similar heroine, Persis, alreadymentioned. The town records say that one Ebenezer Lane claimedtwenty dollars damage on account of this smallpox hospi- * This inoculation was the preventive treatment practiced before Jenner gave tothe world in 1798 the milder and better ifS.} 4 .fectrer t» receive ^-5X! V_ rotm r<or,L*RS *$&h ^-.^j^ 1~JJMC
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