A child's memorial, or, New token for children
Subtitle: Exhibiting the early piety and happy death of Miss Dinah Doudney, of Portsea, delivered to a congregation of children, in Orange Street Chapel, on New Year's Day, 1805. : To which is added, an account of Miss Sarah Barrow, who was burnt to death, April the 4th, 1805
By: By John Griffin. ; With other lives, additions, and corrections
Edition: Second American edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 17685
Publisher: Printed by Samuel T. Armstrong.
Published: 1809
Place of publication: Charlestown, (Mass.)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Children; Biography; Girls; Conduct of life; Religious life; Death; Religious aspects; Children's accidents; Juvenile literature; Fires; Casualties; Swearing; Brothers and sisters; Juvenile poetry
Work titles: Child's memorial
Notes: Phrase, "With other lives ..." transposed; precedes imprint on title page.

Copyright July 17, 1809 by Daniel Oliver.

"An account of Miss Sarah Barrow, of Gosport, who was by accident, burnt to death. April 4th, 1805, aged eight years. Delivered to a congregation of children in Orange-Street Chapel, on the following Good-Friday."--p. [44]-52.

"Some remarkable passages concerning a child, in Boston, New England, aged 7 years and 2 months."--p. [53]-63.

"An account of Job Curtis."--p. [64]-68.

"Love between brothers and sisters."--poem, p. 71.

Shaw & Shoemaker 17685

Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 475.1

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