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Author: Brown, Erastus

Biography:

BROWN, Erastus (fl 1806-25)

Although his poem The Trial of Cain was reprinted quite frequently in the period, there is very little information about Brown beyond what can be inferred from his publications. The first recorded is a broadside lamenting the death of his wife Esther Brown at Alford MA in 1806; their only child is named as Amanda in that poem. He seems to have stayed in the same area, publishing mostly broadsides about local events, until at least 1825. HJ

 

Books written (15):

Elegiac Stanzas, in Three Parts, on the Misfortune, and Death, of Several Respectable Youths . . . ..

Stockbridge [MA]: [no publisher], 1815

The Trial of Cain, the First Murderer, in poetry . . . .

Stockbridge [MA]: [For the author], 1815

The Trial of Cain, the First Murderer. In Poetry, by Rule of Court . . . ..

Auburn [NY]: printed for A. Curtis, 1817

The Trial of Cain, the First Murderer, in Poetry, by Rule of Court . . . ..

Auburn NY: printed for the pedlars, 1817

The Trial of Cain, the First Murderer, in Poetry, by Rule of Court . . . ..

Bridgeport CT: printed by Stiles Nichols, 1819

The Morning Star of Reason, Absorbed in the Rising Sun of Revelation: In Several Poetical Checks to Infidelity . . . ..

Stockbridge [MA]: printed for the author by Charles Webster, 1823

The Trial of Cain, the First Murderer; in Poetry, by Rule of Court . . . ..

Stockbridge [MA]: printed for the author by Charles Webster, 1823

The Trial of Cain, the First Murderer, in Poetry, by Rule of Court . . . ..

Woodstock VT: printed by David Watson, 1823

The Trial of Cain, the First Murderer, in Poetry, by Rule of Court . . . ..

Haverhill NH: Stephen Powers, Jr., 1824

The Trial of Cain, the First Murderer, in Poetry, by Rule of Court . . . ..

Boston: "printed for the purchaser", 1827

The Trial of Cain, the First Murderer, in Poetry, by Rule of Court; in Which a Predestinarian, a Universalian and an Arminian Argue . . . ..

Taunton MA: "republished" by Lorenzo D. Johnson, 1828

The Trial of Cain, the First Murderer; in Poetry, by Rule of Court . . . ..

Erie PA/ Westfield NY: O. Spafford/ printed by Geo. W. Newcomb, 1832

The Trial of Cain, the First Murderer; in Poetry, by Rule of Court . . . ..

Hartford CT: Loren Hills, 1832

Poems: Comprising the Trial of Cain, the First Murderer, by Rule of Court . . . ..

New York: Green and Donaldson, 1834

The Trial of Cain, the First Murderer, in Poetry, by Rule of Court . . . ..

[No place]: printed for the publisher, 1834