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Some poetical thoughts on the difficulties our fore-fathers endured in planting religious and civil liberty, in this western world. With a few hints on the present state of affairs
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Some poetical thoughts on the difficulties our fore-fathers endured in planting religious and civil liberty, in this western world. [electronic resource] : With a few hints on the present state of affairs.
Published
[New Haven? : s.n., ca. 1776]
Physical Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill (relief cut)
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Notes
Verse, in two parts, each containing thirty-six numbered stanzas; first line: When our fore-fathers were opprest.
Imprint date suggested by content and typography.
With a relief cut at head. "The cut is an attempt to represent the first day in New Haven history, namely, the assembling of the colonists, newly arrived from Boston, in their first religious service, held on April 15, 1638, under a great oak tree."--Winslow, Ola Elizabeth. American broadside verse, New Haven, Conn., 1930, p. 184.
Text in four columns.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43160).
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Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 18, 2006
References
Bristol, R.P. Supplement to Charles Evans' American bibliography, B4363
Shipton, C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800, 43160
Trumbull, J.H. List of books printed in Connecticut, 1709-1800, 1402
Wegelin, O. Early American poetry, 775
Subjects
Genre/Form
Broadsides.
Poems - 1776.
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United States Connecticut New Haven.
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