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Man, Mary, Copy-book
Contents Note: 20 leaves. Contains: original and copied verse.
- "The Improvement of a Great and Wonderful Deliverance," in three parts; with note: "The following lines were composed and dictated and the Marginal Quotations added by a pious Woman at Freetown Who had been a long while hurried With grievous Temptations which at Length arose to Such Extremity, that she withdrew with a Purpose to destroy herself by Drowning or some other way: But she was unnaccountably [sic] preserved, and was found after Four and Twenty Hours and a very bitter frosty Winter Night Safe and Well without suffering any visible Damage from the Cold which everyone might think Would have killed her; And being happily delivered and recoverred [sic] unto a comforatable frame of mind, she made This The Song of her Deliverance, Boston: printed for the Author and Sold at Franklin Printing House in Quee[n] Street over against Mr. Sheafs School 1718."
- Psalm 30.1-6
- "Mary Man her verses. Babylon fallen"
- Poor Julleyoun's Warnings to Children and Servants to Shun the Ways of Sin...(with concluding note that refers to the publication and printing in Boston, and the signature, "Mary Man 1765...;"
- "The Blessings of the Spring; or God gives Rain"
- "Sing all ye Nations to the Lord..."
On recto of the cover is written, in another hand: "In It Not to Play Nathan Hans 1750;" on verso, in the same hand: "A Wise Sun maketh a Glad Father." (For more on the description of the first entry, see paragraph two of Scope and Content.)
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1765? |
| Box 1, Folder 2 |
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Man, Mary and Thomas Man, Copy-Book
Contents Note: 54 leaves. Contains: original and copied verse
- "Some Verses made upon the Death of Mr. Frie made by Suzanne Rogers aged 14"
- "I have a robe above the globe..."
- "A Mourning Piece"
- "When Death and everlasting things..."
- "The Inward witness to Christianity"
- "The Shining Light"
- "To Mr. Wiliam Nokes on Friendship"
- "Few Happy Matches"
- "The Pilgrime farewel to this World..."
- "The Nativity of Christ"
- "A Mourning Piece"
- "I have a robe above the globe..."
- "Some Verses made upon the Death of Mr. Frie made by Suzanne Rogers aged 14."
On recto of the cover is written: "Thomas Man 1770 His Verses"; on third leaf is written: "Mary Man Her Book 1774"; elsewhere is written: "Thomas Man his Verses" and "L M of Attleborough." It appears that Mary Man copied over pieces written first by Thomas Man. Also contains: fragment of a leaf with verse, written in another hand.
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1770-1774 |
| Box 1, Folder 3 |
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Man, Mary, "The Happy Man" [Watts, Isaac, in "Horae Lyricae," Book II, "Sacred to Virture, Honor, and Friendship," Philadelphia: Franklin, 1741]
Contents Note: Also contains: "A True Gentleman." AMsS poems, 11 May 1772 (endorsed date), 1 leaf.
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1741 and 1772 May 11 |
| Box 1, Folder 4 |
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Man, Mary, "The london lawyers son."
Contents Note: AMs poem, 12 leaves.
With note at the beginning: "At twenty one years old alas / my sun withdraws his head / now I must die for follies past / and sleep among the dead / and now to judgement I must go / before god's awful bar / there to receive my final doom / for wretched deed i've done."
Also with: marginal note in stanza 20 that says, "John."
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1775 |
| Box 1, Folder 5 |
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Man, Mary, Verses
Contents Note: 24 leaves. Contains:
- "Earthquakes [,] Tokens of God's Power & Wrath being a solemn warning to the wicked. some Lines ocasion by the terribel Earthquake which happened in New England on Tuesday morning the 18th of November 1755 between four and five a'clock."
- "A Brief Representation of the day of Judgement."
- "The Contented Farmer Or The Religious Husbandman Resolutions."
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1774 |
| Box 1, Folder 6 |
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Man, Mary, "Upon the Death of Four Young men that was Drowned in Franklin in June 27th, 1791."
Contents Note: AMs poem.
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1791 |
| Box 1, Folder 7 |
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Man, Mary, Notebook
Contents Note: Contains: original and copied verses; sermon extracts.
- "Few Happy Matches." (From Dr. Watts's Lyrick Poems) [Watts, Isaac, in "Horae Lyricae," Book II, "Sacred to Virtue, Honor, and Friendship," Philadelphia: Franklin, 1741]
- "The Indian Philosopher: by Dr. Watts"; [Watts, Isaac, in "Horae Lyricae," Book II, "Sacred to Virtue, Honor, and Friendship," Philadelphia: Franklin, 1741]
- "The Lesson: A song Tune-- (Ranelaugh House)"
- "The discreet Virgin's Choice"
- "Child of the Summer..." [with initials, "PH"]
- Extracts from Addison, the Bible, Pope, etc.
- Poets Corner. The Bliss of Retirement
- "Poetical Repository"
- "If there is no confidence in faith... This was taken out of the Preface of Mr. A[ndrew] Croswell Sermon which was preach at Boston from Rom. 5.19"
- "Taken from a Sermon of the Rev. Mr. Samuel Davies of New Jersey: But before I proceed any farther..."
- "Why Sink my weak desponding mind..."
- "The Moniter"
- "On Life"
- "Parents mourning the Loss of a Son"
- "On the death of Mr. Georg Stratton jun" with concluding note, "For a young lady which drew his particular attension. Mrs. Stale Withrill"
- "On the Death of Mr. George Stratton Jun Youngest Son to Capt George Stratton and his wife"
- "Weep y[e] daughters of Science..."; with note, "In memory of Miss Cynthia Stratton Who died Jany 29th 1812. In the 16th year of her age"
- "The Twins"
- "The Blush"
- "Verses made by Mrs Molly Sergeant on the death of her Daughter"
- "The Christian Wish" [from the Christian Herald]
- "Destin'd while liveng to sustain..." with note, "Verses on Mr. Simon Pettee grave stones."
- "Vearses on Otis Pette jun"
- "A thought[t] on the Sea Shore. [The following was written by John Newton, of London after he became sensible of the depravity of the human heart.]"
- "To Mary [,] Composed by Amos Watt on a little previous to his siters departure as Missionary to the Indians"
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c. 1812 |
| Box 1, Folder 9 |
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Man, Mary, 4 leaves from a notebook
Contents Note: Contains:
- "The Day of Judgement"
- "Poetry From the troy Post. addressed to A Female who had devoted herself to a Missionary life among the Cherokee Indians;" with an "M" following the last line of the poem.
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c. 1800 |
| Box 1, Folder 10 |
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Man, Mary, "Upon the Building of Babel."
Contents Note: AMs poem. 1 leaf.
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c. 1800 |
| Box 1, Folder 11 |
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Man, Mary, Notebook
Contents Note: 16 leaves.
- A True Relation of a Gentleman in Norfolk Who had two Children Inhumanly Murdered"
- "The Contented Farmer on The Religious Husbandman's Resolutions"
- "What is on earth can make us be so jolly..." appears to be written in another hand."
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 12 |
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Howe, Mary, necrology
Contents Note: AMsS, relating to Elias Mann, Mary Mann, Elias Watts Mann, and Benjamin Seneca Alley; 1 leaf.
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c. 1825 |
| Box 1, Folder 13 |
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A Poetical Sermon Occasioned By A Disappointment in Love. Preached in the Parish Church of W---, by the Clergyman who met with the Disappointment.
Contents Note: AMs, 12 leaves.
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c. 1800 |
| Box 1, Folder 14 |
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Notebook with biblical extracts
Contents Note: 4 leaves
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 15 |
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Lines suggested by the death of Miss E. Mann, March 3.
Contents Note: AMs, 1 leaf, Dedicated to Amanda.
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c. 1850 |
| Box 1, Folder 16 |
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Fisk, Olive, "Would you obtain the glorious price..."
Contents Note: AMsS, 1 leaf
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 17 |
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Fisk, Sukey, "There was a man of Adams race..."
Contents Note: AMsS poem, 1 leaf. With note at end: "moral J-W-B"; Addressed on verso to Miss Polly Fisk.
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 18 |
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Lines from [William?] Cowper
Contents Note: AMs, 1 leaf. "The Following lines are said to be the last that Cowper wrote..."
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 19 |
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A lock of Hannah's hair...
Contents Note: AMs poem, 1 leaf
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undated |
