An Elegy, occasioned by the melancholly [sic] catastrophe, which happen'd in the night of the 10th. of August, 1774
Subtitle: in which the following persons perished in the unrelenting flames ... viz. Mrs. Murphy and her two small children, Mrs. Fling and Mrs. Whitemore ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42590
Publisher: Sold at the printing-office in Milk-Street [by John Kneeland
Published: 1774
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Fires
Other titles: There's not a day goes by, but we behold, at truth, that men often to be told.
Notes: Verse of forty-two lines; first lines: There's not a day goes by, but we behold, at truth, that men need often to be told.

John Kneeland printed at this address in Boston in 1774.

Text in two columns surrounded by mourning border; headband (Reilly 31) and relief cuts of five coffins (Reilly 1220).

Bristol B3729

Shipton & Mooney 42590

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1723