An Awakening call to the children of New-England
Subtitle: occasioned by the grievous and mortal sickness that prevails in many parts of this land, whereby great numbers of children and young people have been carried away to their long home
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 39936
Publisher: Printed and sold [by Thomas Fleet] at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, Boston.
Published: 1736
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Epidemics; Poetry; Diphtheria
Notes: Verse of 128 lines; first line: My cry's to you, my children dear. Apparently referring to the epidemic of throat distemper originating in New Hampshire and affecting New England in 1735-1736. Cf. Dow, Joseph. History of the town of Hampton, New Hampshire, Salem, Mass., 1893, v. I, p. 193-194.

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

Text in two columns.

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.

Not in Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints.

Bristol B808

Shipton & Mooney 39936