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.

Format:

Microformat

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43160.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Haven (Conn.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Poetry.

New Haven (Conn.).

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Poetry.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Poetry.

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1776.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

[New Haven?] : [publisher not identified], [1776?]

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.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43160).

Cited in:

Bristol B4363

Shipton & Mooney 43160

Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 1402

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 775

OCLC:

55815940