Upon the death of that aged, pious, sincere-hearted Christian, John Alden Esq: late magistrate of New-Plimouth colony : who dyed Sept 12th. 1687. Being about eighty nine years of age.

Format:

• Microformat

Author/Creator:

• Cotton, John, 1640-1699.

Series:

• Early American imprints. First series ; no. 426.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Alden, John, 1599-1687--Poetry.
• Alden, John, 1599-1687.

Genre:

• Broadsides.
• Elegies.
• Poetry.

Physical Description:

• 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
• 4x6 in.
• monochrome
• service copy
• negative

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1714?]

Notes:

• Verse of eighty-eight lines; first line: The staffe of bread, and water eke the stay.
• Followed by: John Alden. Anagram end al on hi'.
• Signed at end: J.C. Attributed to John Cotton (1640-1699) by Evans.
• Dated [1687?] by Evans. This seems, however, to have been printed in 1714, as the copy held by the Boston Athenaeum is found bound in a volume of the Boston news-letter, 1711-1715, after the issue of Dec. 6 1714. Other broadsides bound in the volume are positioned according to date of publication. See MHS Proceedings 41 (1908): 208.
• Text in two columns; surrounded by a mourning border.
• Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 426).

Cited in:

• Evans 426
• Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 111
• Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 95

OCLC:

55837629