A poem, occasioned by the sudden and surprising death of Mr. Asa Burt, of Granville : who was mortally wounded by falling a tree, on the 28th of January, 1774, in the 37th year of his age, and expired in a few hours after he received the wound.

Author/creator Haynes, Lemuel
Format Electronic
Publication Info[Hartford] : Sold [by Ebenezer Watson] at the printing-office in Hartford, [1774]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 42673. ^A478749
General noteVerse in thirty-four numbered stanzas; first line: Awake my drousy [sic] muse within.
General note"Asa Burt ... was killed by the falling of a tree. A poem of thirty-four verses was written to commemorate the event by the Rev. Lemuel Haines, a colored preacher."--Burnham, R.H. Genealogical record of Henry and Ulalia Burt, 1892, p. 63.
General noteEbenezer Watson was the only printer active at Hartford in 1774.
General noteText in three columns surrounded by mourning border.
References Bristol B3812
References Shipton & Mooney 42673
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. 42673).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formElegies.

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