An Awakening call to the children of New-England : occasioned by the grievous and mortal sickness that prevails in many parts of this land, whereby great numbers of children and young people have been carried away to their long home

An Awakening call to the children of New-England : occasioned by the grievous and mortal sickness that prevails in many parts of this land, whereby great numbers of children and young people have been carried away to their long home.

Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	[Boston] : Printed and sold [by Thomas Fleet] at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, Boston, [1736?]
Description	1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Epidemics--New England --Poetry. Diphtheria--New England --Poetry.

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39936. ^A478749
General note	Verse of 128 lines; first line: My cry's to you, my children dear. Apparently referring to the epidemic of throat distemper originating in New Hampshire and affecting New England in 1735-1736. Cf. Dow, Joseph. History of the town of Hampton, New Hampshire, Salem, Mass., 1893, v. I, p. 193-194.
General note	Thomas Fleet (1685-1758) printed at the Heart and Crown from 1731 to 1758.
General note	Text in two columns.
References	Bristol B808
References	Shipton & Mooney 39936
Other forms	Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39936).
Genre/form	Broadsides.
Genre/form	Juvenile literature 1736.
Genre/form	Poems 1736.

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