Author: Wolcott, Roger, 1679-1767.
Title: Poetical meditations, being the improvement of some vacant hours
/ by Roger Wolcott, with a preface by the Reverend Mr.
Bulkley. New London [Conn.] : Printed and sold by T. Green,
1725.
Description: lvi, ii, 78, [4] p.
Notes: The preface deals mainly with the Indians' right to the land.
The principal poem (p. 19-78) is entitled: A brief account of
the Agency of the Honourable John Winthrop, esq; in the court
of King Charles the Second, anno Dom. 1662. When he obtained
for the Colony of Connecticut His Majesty's gracious charter.
"Advertisement" (3 p. at end), signed Joseph Dewey, concerns the
preparation and weaving of wool.
Sabin 104986.
Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry 465.
Subjects: Winthrop, John, 1606-1676 -- Poetry.
Connecticut -- History -- Poetry.
Other entries: Bulkley, John, d. 1731.
Brief account of the agency of the Honourable John Winthrop,
esq., in the court of King Charles the Second.