An elegy : On the death of Capt. Annanias Valentine, Thomas Pinckney, Isaac Elliot, Jocamiah Cropsey, and Leonard Merrit, all respectable citizens of the town of Marlborough, who were unfortunately drowned on the flatts, in front of the town, in attempting to go on shore, on Friday morning, the 12th of December, 1800, in a violent storm of wind and rain

An elegy : On the death of Capt. Annanias Valentine, Thomas Pinckney, Isaac Elliot, Jocamiah Cropsey, and Leonard Merrit, all respectable citizens of the town of Marlborough, who were unfortunately drowned on the flatts, in front of the town, in attempting to go on shore, on Friday morning, the 12th of December, 1800, in a violent storm of wind and rain.

Author/creator	Tharp, Peter
Format	Book and Microform
Publication Info	[Kingston, N.Y.?] : [Printed by Samuel S. Freer?], [1800?]
Description	1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts) ; 30 x 25 cm.
Subject(s)	Boating accidents. Drowning--New York (State) --Marlborough. Drowning--Poetry. Marlboro (N.Y.)--History.

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 38624 Early American imprints. First series ; no. 38624. ^A478749
General note	Verse in eighteen stanzas; first line: Come all you good people of ev'ry degree.
General note	Another edition (Evans 38625) names Peter Tharp as author, and has imprint: Kingston, (Ulster County) Printed by Samuel S. Freer, (Copy right secured.) That edition includes a prose account of the accident and includes an additional stanza.
General note	Text in two columns separated and surrounded by mourning border; relief cuts of five coffins between title and text; printed area measures 28.2 x 21.8 cm.
General note	READEX NOTE: Reproduced as Shaw 438; not reproduced as Evans 38624.
References	Evans 38624
References	Shaw & Shoemaker 438
Reproduction note	Joyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 38624).
Genre/form	Broadsides.
Genre/form	Elegies.
Other title	Come all you good people of ev'ry degree.

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	NC Microfiche	MICROFICHE AM35E NO. 38624	✔ Available