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A Poem. On the execution of Samuel Frost : who is to be executed this day, October 31, 1793, for the murder of Capt. Elisha Allen, of Princeton, Massachusetts.

Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Worcester, Mass.] : [Printed by Isaiah Thomas], [1793]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; 42 x 25 cm
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26013. ^A478749
General noteVerse of thirty-eight lines; first line: Review each act, on life's important stage.
General noteRelief cut of a hanging at head of title is identical with that used by Isaiah Thomas on his broadside entitled, The confession and dying words of Samuel Frost (Evans 25521), which also includes an advertisement for the poem in its imprint. Evans erroneously supplies imprint for the poem without brackets.
General noteText in two columns; printed area measures 36.0 x 21.1 cm.
References Evans 26013
References Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2681
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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. 26013).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formPoems 1793.

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