The signs of the times: or Some expositions and remarks on sundry texts of Scripture, relative to the remarkable phenomenon, or dark-day, which appeared in New-England on the nineteenth of May, 1780: by which it appears that New-England is the place that the Prophet Joel calls Zion and Jerusalem. / By Samuel Gatchel, deacon of the Second Congregational Church in Marblehead.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Gatchel, Samuel.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17169.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Curiosities and wonders.

Disasters--Religious aspects.

Disasters.

Forest fires--New England.

Forest fires.

New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

New England.

History.

Physical Description:

16 pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Danvers [Mass.]: : Printed and sold by E. Russell, at his printing-office near the Bell-Tavern. M,DCC,LXXI. (Pr. 8 dol.) Also may be had, sundry other new pieces., [1781]

Notes:

The 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, no. 57.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17169).

Cited in:

Evans 17169

OCLC:

55835656