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A new touch on the times. Well adapted to the distressing situation of every sea-port town
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A new touch on the times. [microform] : Well adapted to the distressing situation of every sea-port town. / By a daughter of liberty, living in Marblehead.
Published
[Danvers, Mass. : Printed by Ezekiel Russell, 1779?]
Physical Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (relief cuts) ; 33 x 21 cm.
Notes
Verse of eighty-four lines, describing the severe economic conditions which existed in Marblehead and other coastal towns between 1776 and 1780; first line: Our best beloved they are gone.
Author from final couplet: Molly Gutridge composition ...
"Probably printed by Ezekiel Russell ..."--Tapley. Salem imprints, p. 333. One of the cuts illustrating this broadside poem was also included in the Downfall of justice (Evans 14740) printed by Russell in 1776.
Dated [1778] by Tapley, [1779] by Ford, and [1779?] by Bristol. In 1779 Russell was printing at Danvers, Mass.
Text in two columns; printed area measures 31.8 x 18.9 cm.
Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43671).
Variant and related titles
Our best beloved they are gone.
Format
Books / Microforms
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Bristol, R.P. Supplement to Charles Evans' American bibliography, B4924
Shipton, C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800, 43671
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, ballads, &c. printed in Massachusetts, 1639-1800, 2161
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Poems - 1779.
Broadsides.
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