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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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Details
- Additional Authors
- Kneeland and Adams, printer.
- Description
- 1 sheet ([1] pages) : illustrations (relief cut); 36 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Broadsides.
- Elegies.
- 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.
- Photostat.
- Indexed In (note)
- Bristol
- Ford
- 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 3180Ford 1518
- Added Author
- Kneeland and Adams, printer.
- Research Call Number
- *KVB (1770) (Few thoughts compos'd on the sudden awful death)