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The Lancaster tragedy: a mournful elegy on the very awful and sudden death of the wife of Mr. Josiah Wilder of Lancaster [Mass.], and four of his children, who were all burned to death in Mr. Wilder's house, in the night following the 23d of January, 1739-40. Mrs. Wilder being also big with child.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
A. H., author.
Series:
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 40194.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Wilder, Josiah, 1700-.
Wilder, Josiah.
Wilder, Prudence, 1706-1740.
Wilder, Prudence.
Fires--Massachusetts--Lancaster.
Fires.
Fire prevention--Massachusetts--Lancaster.
Fire prevention.
Massachusetts--Lancaster.
Genre:
Broadsides.
Elegies.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))
Place of Publication:
[Boston] : Printed and sold [by Thomas Fleet] at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, Boston., [1740?]
System Details:
text file
Notes:
Verse; signed: A.H.
Thomas Fleet (1685-1758) printed at the Heart and Crown in Boston from 1731 to 1758.
Text in two columns; printed area measures 30.6 x 18.0 cm.
With, on verso: An Awakening call from God to this land ...
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 40194).
Cited in:
Bristol B1082
Shipton and Mooney 40194
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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