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A Few thoughts compos'd on the sudden & awful death of Mrs. Fessenden : wife of Mr. Nathanael Fessenden, of Cambridge, who was shot May 30, 1770.
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 42089
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42089.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fessenden, Mrs. (Lydia Bemis), 1751?-1770.
- Fessenden.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Elegies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut)
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Place of Publication:
- Boston: : Printed and sold in Milk-Street [by John Kneeland and Seth Adams]., 1770.
- Notes:
- Verse in twenty-two numbered stanzas; first line: I pray all people lend an ear.
- John Kneeland and Seth Adams printed at this address in 1770.
- An account of Mrs. Fessenden's accidental death was published in the June 4, 1770, issue of the Boston gazette. Cf. Winslow, Ola. American broadside verse, New Haven, 1930, p. 46.
- Text in two columns; relief cut of a coffin in midst of title.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42089).
- Cited in:
- Bristol B3180
- Shipton & Mooney 42089
- Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1518
- OCLC:
- 55825523
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