A lamentation on occasion of the sickness and mortality in East-Guilford, Anno Domini, 1751. By J.H.

People / Organizations

• J. H. (Author)

Imprint

N. London [i.e., New London, Conn.]: Printed & sold by T. Green, 1752.

Publication year

1752-1752

ESTC No.

W35161

Grub Street ID

345852

Description

1 sheet ; ⁰⁰

Note

Verse, in fifty numbered stanzas, describing an epidemic, probably dysentery, with particular reference to the character and death of Deacon Timothy Meigs. First line: O God, our King, we humbly sing.

Followed by: A list of those that died in the parish of East-Guilford [now Madison, Conn.], between December 26th 1750, and November 24th, 1751.

See Caulfield, Ernest. "A rare broadside," in Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, v. 23, no. 3, July 1958, p. 78-80.

Text in four columns.