A lamentation occasion'd by the great sickness & lamented deaths of divers eminent persons in Springfield / Composed by Mr. Jonathan Burt, (an old disciple) in his fourscore & fifth year, (since deceased,) left as a dying legacy to his children, and surviving friends.

Author/creator Burt, Jonathan
Format Microform
Publication Info[Boston?] : [publisher not identified], [1720]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Subjects

SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 39719
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39719. ^A478749
General noteVerse in thirty-two stanzas; first lines: Friends, I am now about to write, a mournful elegy.
General note"Writ, April, 1712. Printed in the year, 1720."
General noteBristol supplies Boston as place of publication. O.E. Winslow, in her American broadside verse, New Haven, 1930, p. 176, suggests that it may have been printed at New London by Timothy Green.
General noteText in three columns.
References Bristol B579
References Shipton & Mooney 39719
References Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 450
References Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 39
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39719).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formElegies.
Other titleFriends, I am now about to write, a mournful elegy.

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