A sonata : sung by a number of young girls, dressed in white and decked with wreaths and chaplets of flowers, holding baskets of flowers in their hands, as General Washington passed under the triumphal arch raised on the bridge at Trenton, April 21, 1789

A sonata : sung by a number of young girls, dressed in white and decked with wreaths and chaplets of flowers, holding baskets of flowers in their hands, as General Washington passed under the triumphal arch raised on the bridge at Trenton, April 21, 1789.

Author/creator	Howell, Richard, 1754-1802
Other author/creator	Reinagle, Alexander, 1756-1809.
Other author/creator	Washington, George, 1732-1799.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	[Trenton, N.J.] : [Printed by Isaac Collins], [1789]
Description	4 unnumbered pages ; (folio)
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Washington, George, 1732-1799--Poetry. Festivals--New Jersey --Trenton.

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 22094. ^A478749
General note	Written by Richard Howell and sung to the tune of Handel's "See the conquering hero comes." Later set to music and published by Alexander Reinagle, to whom the words are sometimes mistakenly attributed. See: Stryker, William S. Washington's reception by the people of New Jersey in 1789 (Trenton, 1882).
General note	First line: Welcome, mighty chief! once more.
General note	Followed by a message from George Washington, addressed to the ladies, expressing his grateful acknowledgement.
General note	Ascribed to the press of Isaac Collins by Evans.
References	Evans 22094
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. 22094).
Genre/form	National songs.

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