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A Tory medley.
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 15366
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15366.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, William, 1727-1803.
- Smith, William.
- Rivington, James, 1724-1802.
- Rivington, James.
- Fisher, Samuel Rhodes.
- American loyalists.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Songs and music.
- United States.
- History.
- Genre:
- Songs and music.
- Broadsides.
- Songs.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1780]
- Notes:
- Song in four parts; first line: Three Tories, in very foul weather. The three Tories are introduced in the first part (tune, The world is a well furnish'd table). In the following parts each sings a song. Second part: The broker (tune, Hosier's ghost). Third part: the printer (tune (God save the King). Fourth part: The Quaker (tune, Babes in the wood). According to Hildeburn, the persons lampooned are William Smith (the broker), James Rivington (the printer), and Samuel Rhodes Fisher (the Quaker).
- Attributed to Francis Hopkinson in: Hastings, G.E. The life and works of Francis Hopkinson, 1926, p. 305.
- Place of publication supplied by Shipton & Mooney. Date of publication from Hastings. Evans erroneously supplies 1777 as date of publication.
- Text in two columns.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15366).
- Cited in:
- Evans 15366
- Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 210
- OCLC:
- 55828412
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