Item Summary

"At the top is a woodcut showing the lightning coming from all directions and striking the luckless three." --Early American book illustrators and wood engravers, 1670-1870.

Descriptive Information

Title
A short account of three men that were killed by lightning, at Suffield, viz. Samuel Remington, James Bagg, Jonathan Bagg.
Call Number
E Row 2/GC053/Box 02/Normal GA 2024.04555
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcwd376b17p
Publisher
New-London [Conn.] : Printed and sold by Timothy Green, 1767.
Language
English
Date Created
1767
Format
Book
Extent
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 22 cm
References
Sinclair Hamilton Collection no. 46
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Verse in forty-one stanzas; first line: Come all you living that survive.
Text in three columns.
Another edition (Evans 10747, Johnson 837) is signed: August 26, 1766. E. Remington. Tentatively attributed to Elizabeth Remington by Johnson.
Princeton copy 1 Mounted in mat.

Discovery Information

Subject
Remington, Samuel 1736-1766
Bagg, James 1747-1766
Bagg, Jonathan 1749-1766
Lightning—Poetry
Suffield (Conn.)—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d9a12f80-dbb2-4ad2-9d85-4e7589926040/manifest