Poems, 1767; 1769.

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Poems, 1767; 1769.

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The collection consists of two manuscript poems. "To the University of Cambridge," dated 1767, was evidently written to the students at Harvard College, admonishing them to learn and live virtuously through their Redeemer. The second poem, entitled "On the Death of the rev'd Dr. Sewall," and dated 1769, is an elegy to her pastor, Joseph Sewall (1688-1769), minister for fifty-six years at Boston's Old South Church.

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