The following lines were composed on the death of Joseph, and John Lindsy, who were burnt to death in a cole-cabin, in Dana, Worcester County, Mass. on the night of the 23rd of December 1809 [drop title]

Grenwich [sic]: John Howe, printer, n.d., 1810. Quarto broadside approx. 10½" x 8". text in double column beneath a running head; paper substantially browned, a few minor losses of paper in the margins (but no loss of letterpress), previous folds; fragile, but still a good example of a rare broadside verse. With 28 numbered quatrains, the first beginning: "Nabors and friends, lend an attentive ear / Let sympathy excite a piteous tear..." Signed: Samuel Dunn, New-Salem, December 27th. 1809. John Howe published at least 5 other broadside elegies by Dunn, "his favorite local poet of neighboring New Salem, who could be counted on to produce verse for any (truncated) melancholy accident ... on the deaths of young people by drowning, lightning, and disease" Gura, "Early Nineteenth-Century Printing in Rural Massachusetts: John Howe of Greenwich and Enfield" in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 36-7. Not in American Imprints. OCLC notes only the copy at AAS, the catalogue description there noting that there is also a variant printing, published anonymously, without an imprint, and with a variant title: An elegy, composed on the death, of Joseph, and John Lindsy... (Inventory #: 53854)