A short account of a dreadful thunder storm in Goshen in Connecticut, and elsewhere
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 49146
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1767
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Subjects: Providence and government of God; Thunderstorms; Storm, 1767
Other titles: What mournful news is this we hear.
Notes: Verse, in thirty-four stanzas, describing the storm which occurred on June 6, 1767, and which killed Martin Wilcox and James Rice [variously, Royce] at Goshen, Sarah Larkim [variously, Larkum] at Hartford, Joseph Young and Curtis Chuet [variously, Chewt] at Falmouth, Maine, and William Burt of Boston; first line: What mournful news is this we hear.

Another edition, with slight textual variations and eight additional stanzas, Bristol B2821, has title and author: Relation of the melancholy death of six young persons, who were kill'd by lightning in the month of June, 1767 ... By Consider Tiffany, of Hartland, in Connecticut.

American Antiquarian Society copy inscribed on verso with the names of Hannah Jacobs, John Bixby, and Hervey Park, of Sutton, Mass., and is dated in ms., May 12th, 1811.

Text in three columns; printed area measures 24.1 x 22.2 cm.

Bristol B11202

Shipton & Mooney 49146