The children in the woods
Subtitle: Being, a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 19401
Publisher: Sold at the Bible and Heart in Cornhill.
Published: 1780
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Infanticide; Poetry
Other titles: Now ponder well, you parents dear.
Work titles: Children in the wood (Ballad)
Notes: Verse in thirty-eight stanzas; first line: Now ponder well, you parents dear.

Followed by two additional stanzas of verse entitled: A Word of advice to executors.

Dated [1785] by Evans. However, the Bible and Heart, Boston, was the sign of Thomas (1732-1797) and John Fleet from 1780 to 1797, of John and Thomas (1768-1827) Fleet from 1797 to 1803, and of Thomas Fleet (1768-1827) from 1803 to 1805.

Relief cut at left of title; text in three columns; printed area measures 29.0 x 17.8 cm.

Evans 19401

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3015