Lines composed on the last and dying words of the Reverend Oliver Williams: Pastor of the First Baptist Church, in Grafton ---who died August the 29th, 1790, aged 39 years

Poem in fifteen stanzas and an acrostic of ten lines spelling Richard Lee. Printed area measures 22.2 x 15.8 cm. Parentheses substituted for square brackets around "R. Island" in imprint transcription. The earliest printing known in Warren, R.I., was done by Nathaniel Phillips in 1792. Text in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; at end of second column line of type ornaments, separating text and imprint. Wegelin records with cut at head of title which is not present on American Antiquarian Society or Brown University copies.
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