1745 September 6 (Friday). At Eve Mr. Bezaleel Eager came from Mr. Billings with his Earnest request to have [me] go over to see his sick Children. I went and found his little son, his only Son, very high to Death, and Two little Daughters sick. Return’d at about ten and one-half to my Family. Their sickness is Fever and Flux[1] which greatly prevails in Shrewsbury and many children are taken away.
[1]Excessive fluid discharge from the bowels.