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A poem, descriptive of the terrible fire, which made such shocking devastation in Boston, on Friday evening the twenty-first of April, 1787 : in which were consumed one house of worship, of which the Reverend Ebenezer Wight was pastor, and upwards of one hundred dwelling-houses and other buildings ... /

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Main Author:	H. W.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Boston] : Sold [by Ezekiel Russell] at the printing-office in Essex-Street, next Liberty-Pole: where may be had, on Saturday next, a particular account of the above melancholy catastrophe ..., [1787]
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 45140.
Subjects:	Fires > Massachusetts > Boston > Poetry. Broadsides. Poems > 1787.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

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