A ew thoughts compos'd on the sudden & awful death of Mrs. Fessenden,: wife of Mr. Nathanael Fessenden, of Cambridge, who was shot May 30, 1770

Twenty-two numbered four-line stanzas printed in two columns within mourning border and with heavy black line separating columns. With a relief cut of a coffin (not in Reilly) in the midst of the title Brown University copy mutilated, lacking title and coffin illustration. For an account of this broadside see Ola Winslow, American broadside verse (New Haven, 1930) p. 46. An account of Mrs. Fessenden's accidental death was published in the Boston Gazette of June 4, 1770 John Kneeland and Seth Adams printed together at this address from 1765 to 1772 Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Mutilated with loss of title and coffin; separate fragment with part of title; mended with tape on verso, on which is ms. name, "Miss Berea Adams, Medway."