A lamentation occasion'd by the great sickness & lamented deaths of divers eminent persons in Springfield.
By: Composed by Mr. Jonathan Burt, (an old disciple) in his fourscore & fifth year, (since deceased,) left as a dying legacy to his children, and surviving friends.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 39719.
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1720
Place of publication: [Boston?
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Diphtheria -- Poetry.; Springfield (Mass.) -- History -- Poetry.
Other titles: Friends, I am now about to write, a mournful elegy.
Notes: Verse in thirty-two stanzas; first lines: Friends, I am now about to write, a mournful elegy.

"Writ, April, 1712. Printed in the year, 1720."

Bristol supplies Boston as place of publication. O.E. Winslow, in her American broadside verse, New Haven, 1930, p. 176, suggests that it may have been printed at New London by Timothy Green.

Text in three columns.

Bristol B579.

Shipton & Mooney 39719.

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 450.

Wegelin, O.  Amer. poetry, 39.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39719)