(NEW YORK) Death of 2 Young People Drowned at Trenton Fal

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(NEW YORK.) Death of 2 Young People . . . Drowned at Trenton Falls, in a Shocking Manner. 2 pages on one broadsheet, 18 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches; unevenly trimmed, moderate dampstaining. No place, circa 1831

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A collection of 5 poems, with 3 of them (apparently unpublished elsewhere) on western New York themes. Two of the poems describe the deaths of young visitors to remote Trenton Falls, Oneida County. Another, covering the entirety of one side, describes the deathbed conversion of a young woman in Rochester, NY. The poem titles include "On the afflictive death of Oliver C. Bill, of Remsen, N.Y., who was Carried over the Falls & Drowned, Aug. 2nd, 1830, Aged 21"; "The Romish Lady" (an anti-Catholic work, later said to be a favorite of the young Abraham Lincoln); "Shocking Death of Eliza Suydam, who was Drowned at Trenton Falls, July 22nd, 1827, Aged 17"; "A Hymn" (the first line reading "There is a school on Earth begun," with variants published in several places from 1824 onward); and, on verso, "1831--a Wonderful Account of the Conversion & Happy Death of Mrs. Sarah Pebbles, a Young Woman of . . . Rochester, N.Y., Aged 24 Years, Formerly from the City of Albany, N.Y." One copy traced in OCLC (Brown University).