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Year:: 1757
Contributor:: Fleet, Thomas, 1732-1797 (printer); Fleet, John, 1734-1806 (printer)
Genre:: broadsides
Subject:: Wood-engraving, American > 18th century; Infanticide > Poetry; Murder > Poetry; Death in poetry; Narrative poetry; United States > Massachusetts > Boston
Local ID:: HB11847
Extent:: 1 broadside : ill. : 34 x 20 cm.
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Notes:: Printed in three columns.; At left, next to subtitle, wood-engraving of two duelists with two children watching; bird carrying spray of leaves flying above (cf. Reilly 1163); At head of text: To a very mournful Tune.; At end of third column below double rule: Sold at the Heart & Crown in Cornhill.; The Heart and Crown in Cornhill (Boston) was the address for Thomas Fleet (1685-1758) from 1731 to 1757, and from that date to 1776 for his sons Thomas (1732-1797) and John (1734-1806). Internal evidence suggests a Thomas and John Fleet imprint.; This edition not in Evans, Bristol.

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Rights: No Copyright - United States
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"The children in the woods: being a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children of a deceased gentleman in Norfolk, whom he left to the care of his brother " (1757). Harris Broadsides. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:267749/

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Harris Broadsides

Broadsides are single-sheet publications, often issued as ephemera or announcements. The Harris Broadsides Collection is a comprehensive collection of American poetry published in broadside format from colonial times to the present. The collection offers materials covering a broad spectrum of …
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The children in the woods: being a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children of a deceased gentleman in Norfolk, whom he left to the care of his brother