Salem, June 25, 1773 : Verses on the sudden and awful death of Mrs. Rebecca Giles, Mr. Paul Kimball and his wife, Mrs. Desire Holman, Mr. William Ward and his wife, Miss Esther Masury, Mr. Nathaniel Diggadon and his wife, and Mrs. Sarah Becket, all of Salem, who were drowned all together off this harbour on the 17th day of June, 1773.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [Boston?] : [Printed by John Kneeland?], [1773] |
| Description | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 36 x 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42525. ^A478749 |
| General note | Verse of sixty-four lines; first line: Awake, my Muse, and sing the awful scene. |
| General note | Followed by a prose account of the boating accident. |
| General note | Possibly printed in Salem. Included in Tapley, H.S. Salem imprints, 1768-1825, p. 314. However, another edition, with variant line endings in the title but otherwise very similar in appearance, has imprint: Boston: Printed and sold [by John Kneeland] in Milk-Street. |
| General note | Text of poem in two columns; printed area measures 35.2 x 20.7 cm. |
| General note | Not in Evans or Bristol. |
| References | Shipton & Mooney 42525 |
| References | Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1691 |
| References | Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 822 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42525). |
| Genre/form | Broadsides. |
| Genre/form | Elegies. |
| Other title | Verses on the sudden and awful death of Mrs. Rebecca Giles ... |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |