Serious thoughts on sudden death
Subtitle: A poem, occasioned by the drowning of six men by the overseting [sic] of a boat in Lake Champlain, near Split Rock, about twenty miles below Crown-Point. There were eight persons in the boat when it overset, but two saved their lives by keeping to the boat
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 45161
Publisher: Printed by Haswell & Russell
Published: 1787
Place of publication: Bennington, Vt
Language: eng
Subjects: Drowning; Poetry; Boating accidents
Other titles: Lord how precarious are our lives.
Notes: Verse in twenty-one stanzas; first line: Lord how precarious are our lives.

Advertised in the March 19, 1787, issue of the Vermont gazette, printed at Bennington by Haswell & Russell.

Text in three columns; printed area, including mourning borders, measures 38.2 x 25.0 cm.

Bristol B6587

Shipton & Mooney 45161

McCorison, M.A. Vermont, 131