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The children in the woods. : Being, a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children of a deceased gentleman in Norfolk ... : To a very mournful tune.

Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 19766. Connect to full text. Available online

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Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 Available online

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Format:
Book
Series:
Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 19766.
Standardized Title:
Children in the wood (Ballad)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Infanticide--Poetry.
Infanticide.
Genre:
Broadsides.
Ballads.
Poetry.
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page
Place of Publication:
[Hartford] : Sold at the printing-office in Hartford., [between 1764 and 1810]
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file
Notes:
Verse in thirty-eight stanzas; first line: Now ponder well, you parents dear.
Followed by eight additional lines entitled: A Word of advice to executors.
Text printed in three columns.
Shaw & Shoemaker date this [181-?], but typography and use of the long "s" throughout suggest an earlier printing date. The phrase "Sold at the printing-office in Hartford" appears on several imprints dated between 1764 and 1799.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 19766).
Access Restriction:
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