Serious thoughts on sudden death : A poem, occasioned by the drowning of six men by the overseting [sic] of a boat in Lake Champlain, near Split Rock, about twenty miles below Crown-Point. There were eight persons in the boat when it overset, but two saved their lives by keeping to the boat.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [Bennington, Vt.] : [Printed by Haswell & Russell], [1787] |
| Description | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts) ; 45 x 28 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45161. ^A478749 |
| General note | Verse in twenty-one stanzas; first line: Lord how precarious are our lives. |
| General note | Advertised in the March 19, 1787, issue of the Vermont gazette, printed at Bennington by Haswell & Russell. |
| General note | Text in three columns; printed area, including mourning borders, measures 38.2 x 25.0 cm. |
| References | Bristol B6587 |
| References | Shipton & Mooney 45161 |
| References | McCorison, M.A. Vermont, 131 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic 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. 45161). |
| Genre/form | Poems 1787. |
| Genre/form | Broadsides. |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |