Melancholy events. Boston, July 21st, 1813 : On Monday last, the sloop Liberty ... was overset in a squall between this town and Noddle's Island, and sunk ... About the same time, a pleasure-boat ... was overset, on the edge of Dorchester flats ... The following lines have been written on the distressing occasion. [One line from the Holy Writ].
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1813] |
| Description | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts) ; 30 x 22 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. Second series no. 51315. ^A575643 |
| General note | Verse in fourteen stanzas; first line: Life is a vapor of the morn. |
| General note | American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 133, presented to the society in August 1814. |
| General note | Text in two columns; printed area, including mourning border, measures 26.1 x 20.0 cm. |
| References | Shaw & Shoemaker 51315 |
| References | Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 169 |
| References | Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 1315 |
| 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., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 51315). |
| Genre/form | Broadsides. |
| Genre/form | Poems 1813. |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |