A few thoughts, on the loss of Dr. Eleazer Harlow's house and children by fire: /

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Author / Creator:	Johnston, Benjamin, of Bridgewater, Mass.
Imprint:	[Boston, Mass. : s.n., 1765]
Description:	1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 34 x 20 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Dabney, Mary, -- 1754-1765. Harlow, Abigail, -- 1752-1765. Harlow, Eleazer, -- 1719-1812. Children -- Death -- Poetry. Death -- Poetry. Fires -- Massachusetts -- Duxbury. Fires -- Poetry. Duxbury (Mass.) -- Fires, 1765. Broadsides. Poems -- 1765.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
Local Note:	Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints. Library Company copy backed with laid paper of an early date to patch at tear at the center fold. NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10358800

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Varying Form of Title:	February last that's gone and past,
Notes:	Verse in 22 numbered stanzas; first line: February last that's gone and past, Caption title. Justin Winsor's History of Duxbury, Mass. confirms that a fire in Eleazer Harlow's house on February 5, 1765 killed his daughter Abigail Harlow and Polly (i.e. Mary) Dabney, Mrs. Harlow's daughter. Not in Evans or Bristol; not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides. Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa.: NewsBank, inc., 2010. Available via the World Wide Web. Access restricted to Readex Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1670-1800

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