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HISTORY OF con ASSET. 





To add to the town's distress the smallpox broke out in 

 our midst that next summer. In April they had " voted 

 to have an Enoculation * for the Small Pox opened in this 

 town where it may be most advantajus and least prejudi- 

 tial to the Inhabitants thereof." This hospital for the 



smallpox was built 

 upon an open pasture 

 southeast of Little 

 Harbor near a small 

 stream called the Mo- 

 hawk. Beach Street 

 was not then cut 

 through to Atlantic 

 Avenue, and a mere 

 wood road led to the 

 hospital. 



The keeper was 

 Mrs. Daniel Tower 

 (Bethiah Nichols), a 

 dauntless woman 

 who was nicknamed 

 " Resolution " Tower. 

 She is said to have 

 carted water in bar- 

 rels from Lily Pond 

 to water the corn 

 during a drought 

 while the men 

 were away in the 

 Revolutionary War. She lived on King Street, and 

 was the mother of the similar heroine, Persis, already 

 mentioned. 



The town records say that one Ebenezer Lane claimed 

 twenty dollars damage on account of this smallpox hospi- 



*This inoculation was the preventive treatment practiced before Jenner gave to 

 the world in 1798 the milder and better vaccination. 



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Face and Back of a Four-dollar Bill 



paid to a cohasset revolutionary 



Soldier. 



