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A few thoughts compos'd on the sudden & awful death of Mrs. Fessenden, : wife of Mr. Nathanael Fessenden, of Cambridge, who was shot May 30, 1770.

Title: A few thoughts compos'd on the sudden & awful death of Mrs. Fessenden, : wife of Mr. Nathanael Fessenden, of Cambridge, who was shot May 30, 1770.
Publication: Boston : Printed and sold in Milk-Street, 1770.

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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KVB (1770) (Few thoughts compos'd on the sudden awful death)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

Additional Authors

Kneeland and Adams, printer.

Description

1 sheet ([1] pages) : illustrations (relief cut); 36 cm

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Genre/Form

Note

Twenty-two numbered stanzas of verse printed in two columns. With a relief cut of a coffin (not in Reilly)--in the midst of the title.
For an account of this broadside see Ola Winslow, American broadside verse (New Haven, 1930)--p. 46. An account of Mrs. Fessenden's accidental death was published in the Boston Gazette of June 4, 1770.
John Kneeland and Seth Adams printed together at this address from 1765 to 1772.
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Indexed In (note)

Call Number

*KVB (1770) (Few thoughts compos'd on the sudden awful death)

OCLC

6119583

Title

A few thoughts compos'd on the sudden & awful death of Mrs. Fessenden, : wife of Mr. Nathanael Fessenden, of Cambridge, who was shot May 30, 1770.

Imprint

Boston : Printed and sold in Milk-Street, 1770.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Indexed In:

Bristol 3180

Ford 1518

Added Author

Kneeland and Adams, printer.

Research Call Number

*KVB (1770) (Few thoughts compos'd on the sudden awful death)