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Murder--Horrible murder!! : Clarksburg, Virginia, November, 1805.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 8941. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 8941.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clemmens, Abel, 1774-1806.
- Clemmens, Abel.
- Murder--West Virginia--Clarksburg.
- Murder.
- Murder--Poetry.
- Infanticide--West Virginia--Clarksburg.
- Infanticide.
- West Virginia--Clarksburg.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Poems -- 1805.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts) ; 45 x 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Morgantown, Va.?] : [Printed by Campbell & Britton?], [1805?]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Followed by: Lines on the above murder.
- Another edition (Shaw & Shoemaker 8452) has title: The following is a particular account of a horrid murder. Abel Clemmons [i.e., Clemmens] murdered his wife and eight children. Clarksburg, Virginia, Nov. 11, 1805.
- Place and date of publication suggested by McDade. James Campbell and Forbes Britton were the only printers active at Morgantown in 1805.
- Text in two columns surrounded by mourning border; relief cuts of eight coffins at head; printed area measures 36.6 x 17.4 cm.
- 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. 8941).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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