The Tears of a brother on the death of a very dear & obliging brother, viz. Thomas Spear of Brantrey
Subtitle: a student for some years at Harvard-College in Cambridge in N.E. Who there expired September 27th 1723. AEtatis suae 16. To our great loss, and his incomparable gain
Series: Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Collections of the Harvard University Archives
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1723
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Harvard College (1636-1780). Class of 1724; Harvard College (1636-1780); Harvard College (1636-1780). Class of 1725
Other titles: Memento Mori. Remember Death. The Tears of a Brother on the Death of a very Dear & Obliging Brother, viz. Thomas Spear of Brantrey ; a Student for some Years at harvard College [...].
Description: The creator of this memorial broadside is unknown; the text, a long poem beginning "How precious in Jehovah's sight," appears to have been written by one of Thomas Spear's five brothers following his death.
Notes: Text in three columns surrounded by mourning border; relief cut (Reilly 18) at head, with words "Memento mori. Remember death."

The provenance of this broadside is unknown.

Thomas Spear (1707-1723) was born in Braintree, Massachusetts on August 16, 1707. He was the eighth child of Nathaniel and Hannah (Holman) Spear. He died while an undergraduate student at Harvard College, on September 27 or 28, 1723. Spear was a member of either the class of 1724 or the class of 1725 (sources differ), but he died before graduating.