During the Revolutionary War, two hundred Continental soldiers stricken with smallpox were dumped from a British prison ship ashore at Milford Harbor.
Stephen Stow, captain of a coastal schooner and a captain in the Continental forces, took the entire two hundred sick soldiers home with him to what is now called the Eells-Stow House, at 34 Hight Street, built in 1689,where he lived with his wife,Freelove. Four of their sons, Stephen, Samuel, John, and Jedediah, were off fighting British troops
In 1777, very little was known about fighting smallpox, and its death toll was appalling. Forty-six of the two hundred soldiers died along with Captain Stow, and they are all buried in a common grave together.
The Eells-Stow house, at 34 High Street in Milford, is normally open to the public but is closed until further notice because of the present health emergency. |
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