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An Elegy, occasioned by the melancholly [sic] catastrophe, which happen'd in the night of the 10th. of August, 1774: in which the following persons perished in the unrelenting flames ... viz. Mrs. Murphy and her two small children, Mrs. Fling and Mrs. Whitemore ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet : ill. (relief cuts) ; ?⁰.
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston] : Sold at the printing-office in Milk-Street [by John Kneeland, 1774]
- Notes:
- Verse of forty-two lines; first lines: There's not a day goes by, but we behold, at truth, that men need often to be told.
- John Kneeland printed at this address in Boston in 1774.
- Text in two columns surrounded by mourning border; headband (Reilly 31) and relief cuts of five coffins (Reilly 1220).
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Bristol, B3729
- Shipton & Mooney, 42590
- Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1723
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