The Poor armourer boy, a song : Imitated from the "Poor cabin boy," of Dibdin, and adapted to the case of John R. Jewitt, a native of Boston, in Great-Britain, the only survivor of the crew of the ship Boston, of Boston in New-England, who with the captain and officers were cruelly massacred by the savages on the north-west coast of America. Tune--"The poor cabin boy.".

Other author/creator	Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814 Poor cabin boy (Tune)
Other author/creator	Porter, J. T., engraver.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	[Middletown, Conn.] : Loomis & Richards print. Middletown, [1815]
Description	1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations
Supplemental Content	Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821 Indian captivities--Songs and music. Seafaring life--Songs and music.

Series	Early American imprints. Second series no. 35665. ^A575643
General note	Song in five stanzas; first lines: No thrush that e'er pip'd its sweet note from the thorn was so gladsome and lively as me.
General note	Steel engraving at head has caption, "The ship Boston taken by the savages at Nootka Sound March 22d, 1803," and is signed: J.T. Porter sculp. Middletown, Conn.
General note	At foot: Copy right secured according to law.
General note	One of two issues filmed by Readex Microprint for Shaw & Shoemaker 35665. The other issue is without the engraving, varies slightly in the first and last stanzas, and has copyright statement "Entered according to act of Congress, the 8th day of March 1815--by John R. Jewitt, of the state of Connecticut."
General note	Surrounded by ornamental border.
References	Shaw & Shoemaker 35665
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. 35665).
Genre/form	Broadsides.
Genre/form	Songs.

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