Folger MS M.a.116

• Primary compiler
• Major author

pp. 112–116.

Local title: Advice from an unmarried Lady to one lately married.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Attributed date: "31 Jany 1787."

pp. 24–25.

Local title: Conjugal Precepts. Addressed to a Lady.

Attributed author: Langhorne.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: Begins with stanza "Love, like the flow'r that courts the sun's kind ray..."

Other: n/a

p. 149

Local title: n/a

Attributed author: n/a, though there's a later pencil attribution to "Alex Pope."

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 77-78

Local title: Mira's Last Will and Testament

Attributed author: Mrs. Leapor

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 48.

Local title: An Inscription. On the Tomb stone of Margaret Scott who deceased at Delkeath Twelve Miles from New Castle February. 9th. in the year 1681.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 70–73

Local title: A Soliloquy written in a country Church-Yard.

Attributed author: the Rev. Mr. Moore of Cornwall.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 143.

Local title: The Death song of a Cherokee Indian.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Signed and dated "28 Feb. 1790 first cop'd. 7 Oct. 1787."

p. 47.

Local title: On Two Lovers who were struck dead by the same flash Lightning.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 57

Local title: Engraven on a Column In the Church of Halstead in Essex the Spire of which burnt down by Lightning was re-built at the expence of Mr. Samuel Fiske. 1717.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Dated "NY Feby 1787." 

pp. 107–108

Local title: On the Birth of a Son.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Signed and dated 26 Aug 1786.

Occasional; most signed or initialed by Williams so difficult to tell, thou these marks are seemingly an indication of copying, not authorship. 

Pre-bound. Created from a soft-covered paperbook. Subsequently rebound; items from decayed covers now pasted onto inside covers of new board binding.

Title page covered with silk for protection.

Pasteboard covers much decayed.

Significant decorative features.

Elaborate signatures to every item in the first part of the book, but variation in formats.

Single, except the three medicinal entries near the end of the book. 

Later use of book to record George Warner’s epitaph [Azaria's father in law] as well as several medicinal recipes – possibly used by widow or one of her children – see annotation of anniversary poem on p. 118.

Variable marks at the ends of poems – looped lines, double ruled lines, upside-down trianble-shaped pattern of parallel long lines to very short lines.

Signatures to every item in the first part of the book.

Very likely.

A number of items signed/ initialed by the compiler, though he also puts his signature to works he attributes to other authors.

Elaborate signature to every item in the first part of the book, but variating in formats. 

On the back cover: "Azarias Williams, Merchant, New York, no. 58 Water Street."

On front cover: "Anna J. Maria" and armorial bookplate of Azarias Williams.

Signature of Sally Furman Williams Warner written into book on p. 118 after anniversary poem from a husband to a wife.

Ruled left-hand margins that seem to be a feature of the book.

Yes.

Yes, covered with silk for protection.

Several unattributed mottos on title page.