An ode of verses on the much-lamented death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, late Chaplain to the Countess of Huntington, who departed this life, at Newberry near Boston in New England on the thirtieth of September, 1770, in the fifty-seventh year of his age. Compos'd in America by a negro girl seventeen years of age, and sent over to a gentleman of character in London.

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Title An ode of verses on the much-lamented death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, late Chaplain to the Countess of Huntington, who departed this life, at Newberry near Boston in New England on the thirtieth of September, 1770, in the fifty-seventh year of his age. Compos'd in America by a negro girl seventeen years of age, and sent over to a gentleman of character in London.
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Signed Author Compos'd in America by a negro girl seventeen years of age, and sent over to a gentleman of character in London
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Date of Publication 1771
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Date of First Publication 1770
Imprint Printed and sold for the benefit of a poor family burnt out a few weeks since near Shoreditch church, that lost all they possessed, having nothing insur'd,
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Notes First printed in Boston in 1770 as "An Elegiac Poem, On the Death of that celebrated Divine, and eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the reverend and learned George Whitefield, Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon". Only two copies of this edition are known, each of which has unique printers' ornaments running down the centre and across the bottom of the page: one is held by the Beinecke Library and the other held by the Huntington Library.
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Wheatley Peters, Phillis. An ode of verses on the much-lamented death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, late Chaplain to the Countess of Huntington, who departed this life, at Newberry near Boston in New England on the thirtieth of September, 1770, in the fifty-seventh year of his age. Compos'd in America by a negro girl seventeen years of age, and sent over to a gentleman of character in London.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 13812, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/13812. Accessed 2025-07-13. 

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