[Small broadside within:] A Discourse, Delivered in Duxbury, August 31st, 1838, on occasion of the burial of Samuel Alden Frazer, Esq.

“Thus fit me while on earth I move…”


A tribute to Samuel A. Frazer (c. 1742–1838) shipbuilder and Plymouth County, Massachusetts judge. Frazer was raised in Boston, but removed to Duxbury and built a house in 1793 on the Blue Fish River. Loosely inserted is a small broadside of poetry; four 4-line stanzas of verse attributed to Frazer within an ornamental border.


Description: [Small broadside within:] A Discourse, Delivered in Duxbury, August 31st, 1838, on occasion of the burial of Samuel Alden Frazer, Esq.

Boston: Published by Josiah A. Stearns, [1838]. Octavo. 16pp. Green printed wraps. General wear and foxing; very good.

[3733103]

Price: $100.00

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