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The Death of General Wolf:[.].

Included WorkPaine, Thomas, 1737-1809 Death of General Wolfe.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Boston] : Nathaniel Coverly, printer, Milk-Street, Boston, [between 1810 and 1814]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts) ; 32 x 25 cm
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 19938. ^A575643
General noteVerse in twelve stanzas; first line: Cheer up your hearts young men let nothing fright you.
General noteFollowed by Death of Gen. Wolf, a song written by Thomas Paine between 1768 and 1774, and first printed in America in the March 1775, issue of the Pennsylvania magazine. Cf. Hawke, David Freeman. Paine. New York, 1974, p. 15, 30. First line: In a sad mould'ring cave where the wretched retreat.
General noteNathaniel Coverly, Jr. is first listed at this address in the Boston directory for 1810. American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. III, no. 69, presented to the society in August 1814.
General noteText in two columns; printed area measures 27.3 x 19.9 cm.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 19938
References Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 55
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., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 19938).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formPoems 1810.
Genre/formSongs.

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