A new touch on the times. : Well adapted to the distressing situation of every sea-port town. / By a daughter of liberty, living in Marblehead.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Gutridge, Molly, 1749?-1836.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43671.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seafaring life--Poetry.

Seafaring life.

Economic conditions.

Massachusetts--Economic conditions--Poetry.

Massachusetts.

Marblehead (Mass.)--History--18th century--Poetry.

Marblehead (Mass.).

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

United States.

History.

Genre:

Poetry.

Poems -- 1779.

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts) ; 33 x 21 cm

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

[Danvers, Mass.] : [Printed by Ezekiel Russell], [1779?]

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).

Cited in:

Bristol B4924

Shipton & Mooney 43671

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2161

OCLC:

55815932