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  Verses occasioned by the earthquakes in the month of November, 1755. By Jeremiah Newland.
  Date of publication:
  1755
  

  Author(s):

  Newland, Jeremiah.
  Description:
  Verse, in forty-nine stanzas, concerning the earthquakes felt in Boston and other parts of New England. First line: O God of mercy thou art good. Text in three columns.
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  An improvement of the doctrine of earthquakes, being the works of God, and tokens of his just displeasure. Containing an historical summary of the most remarkable earthquakes in New-England, from the first settlement of the English here, as also in other parts of the world since 1666. / By Thomas Prince, M.A. and one of the Pastors of the South Church in Boston. ; To which is added, a letter to a gentleman, giving an account of the dreadful earthquake felt in Boston, New-England Nov. 18. twenty five minutes past 4 in the morning.
  Date of publication:
  1755
  

  Author(s):

  Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758.
  Description:
  Another issue (not in Evans) has "twenty minutes past 4" in title, and lacks the booksellers' advertisement found on verso of the title page in the present issue. Publisher's prospectus, p. 16.
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  A lecture on earthquakes; read in the chapel of Harvard-College in Cambridge, N.E. November 26th 1755. On occasion of the great earthquake which shook New-England the week before. / By John Winthrop, Esq; Hollisian Professor of the Mathematics and Philosophy at Cambridge. ; Published by the general desire of that society. ; [Five lines from Derham]
  Date of publication:
  1755
  

  Author(s):

  Winthrop, John, 1714-1779.
  Description:
  Half-title: Mr. Winthrop's lecture on earthquakes. Erratum note, p. 38.
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