Colonist's journal notes that within 10 years of arrival, a settler-colonist's family will likely be struck by malaria.
Date: 1690
Indigenous and African communities in this era have built up resistance to malaria that Europeans do not not have. Some scholars have suggested that "the listlessness created by the debilitation of malaria contributed to the white hyperfocus on the institution of slavery for labor" (Watts 1997). Enslaved African people may have been stolen from malaria endemic regions of Africa so they would be less likely to get sick.