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.

People / Organizations

A. H. (Author)

Imprint

[Boston]: Printed and sold at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, Boston [by Thomas Fleet, 1740?]

Added name

Fleet, Thomas, 1685-1758, printer.

Publication year

1740

ESTC No.

W10896

Grub Street ID

320049

Description

1 sheet ; 34 x 23 cm

Note

Verse; signed: A.H.

Thomas Fleet (1685-1758) printed at the Heart and Crown in Boston from 1731 to 1758.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 30.6 x 18.0 cm.

With, on verso: An Awakening call from God to this land ..

Uncontrolled note

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides

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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.