Three young men drowned!: Read this, o youth, for it is concerning death! death! death!

Within mourning border printed in three columns. Cut of three coffins bearing initials at head. At head of text: In Meredith, N.H. last Monday evening, Dec. 25th 1815 The most alarming and distressing accident happened ... David ... Josiah ... and Joseph Fogg ... were immediately drowned .. Poetry in 26 stanzas.

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Original record: Three young men drowned!: Read this, o youth, for it is concerning death! death! death!
Collection: Harris Broadsides
Date(s): 1795 – 1815
1797 – 1815
1800 – 1815
Usage: Collection is open for research.
Rights Statement: No Copyright - United States
Creator(s): Lothrop, Reuel, 1789- (creator)
Subject(s): 19Th Century
Accidents
Admonitory verses
Broadsides
Children
Coffins on broadsides
Death
Death in poetry
Drowning
Fogg, David
Fogg, Joseph
Fogg, Josiah
Future life
Meredith
New Hampshire
Philbrick, Jonathan > d. 1815
Poetry
Religious aspects
Wood
engraving, American
Type: text

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