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The Lancaster tragedy : a mournful elegy on the very awful and sudden death of the wife of Mr. Josiah Wilder of Lancaster [Mass.], and four of his children, who were all burned to death in Mr. Wilder's house, in the night following the 23d of January, 1739-40. Mrs. Wilder being also big with child.

Author/creator A. H.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Boston] : Printed and sold [by Thomas Fleet] at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, Boston, [1740?]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 34 x 23 cm
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 40194. ^A478749
General noteVerse; signed: A.H.
General noteThomas Fleet (1685-1758) printed at the Heart and Crown in Boston from 1731 to 1758.
General noteText in two columns; printed area measures 30.6 x 18.0 cm.
General noteWith, on verso: An Awakening call from God to this land ...
References Bristol B1082
References Shipton & Mooney 40194
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 40194).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formElegies.

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