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
Subjects: Diphtheria; Poetry; History
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