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On the Dark Day, May nineteenth, 1780.

Format Book and Microform
Publication Info[Boston] : [publisher not identified], [between 1810 and 1814]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 29 x 20 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43859
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43859. ^A478749
General noteVerse in twenty-two stanzas; first lines: Let us adore, and bow before the sovereign Lord of might.
General noteThe darkness which extended over much of New England was presumably the result of smoke and ashes from a forest fire, trapped in the atmosphere by excessive moisture. Cf. Bumgardner, G.B. American broadsides, 1971, no. 57.
General noteDated [1780?] by Bristol, Ford, and Wegelin. American Antiquarian Society copy 1 bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 21, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814. Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, cf. Ford, W.C. The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924.
General noteText in two columns; printed area measures 26.4 x 15.1 cm.
References Bristol B5152
References Shipton & Mooney 43859
References Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 697
References Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2269
References Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 194
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43859).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formPoems 1810.
Other titleLet us adore, and bow down before the sovereign Lord of might.

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