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A most tragical account* of a woman's murdering a pedler [i.e. peddler] & then burning to death her own child

Description

Notes:
Poetry.
Within mourning border printed in three columns.
Possible range of dates suggested by another edition of this broadside published together with a broadside ballad recounting a drowning in January 1828.

Access Conditions

Rights
No Copyright - United States
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Table of Contents

  • On the death of a young lady that was lately killed in Rhod-islan [i.e. Rhode Island] by a stone falling on her breast:
  • Young people all I pray give ear:

Citation

"A most tragical account* of a woman's murdering a pedler [i.e. peddler] & then burning to death her own child" (1828). Harris Broadsides. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:301975/

Relations

Collection:

  • 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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