Some funeral verses occasioned by the death of the pious and much lamented, Mr. Jonathan French, of Vollentown [i.e., Voluntown], in Connecticut-colony : who departed this life February the 17th, 1720,21, in the thirty-second year of his age.

Format:

Book

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epitaphs--Connecticut--Voluntown (Town)--Early works to 1800.

Epitaphs.

French, Jonathan, 1690?-1721--Death and burial.

French, Jonathan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet ([1] p.))

Other Title:

Some funeral verses occasioned by the death of the pious and much lamented, Mr. Jonathan French, of Vollentown [i.e., Voluntown], in Connecticut-colony

Place of Publication:

[New London, Conn.? : Printed by Timothy Green?, 1721]

Notes:

Verse of forty-four lines; first line: Some raise their costly monuments up to the skies.

Followed by Part ii. To the vertuous Mrs. French, the relict of Mr. French. First line: In virtue's ways hold out as you've begun. [and] An epitaph ... composuit Johannes Walton. First line: Here lies enclosed within this silent urn.

Imprint suggested by Sabin.

Text in two columns.

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Sabin no. 101217.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG01-B1684

Contains:

To the vertuous Mrs. French, the relict of Mr. French.

Some raise their costly monuments up to the skies.

In virtue's ways hold out as you've begun.

Here lies enclosed within this silent urn.

Walton, John, 1694-1764. Epitaph.

OCLC:

85797152