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American taxation, or The spirit of seventy-six exemplified in a song written in the golden days which tried men's souls.
Evans Digital Edition Connect to full text, no. 18174 Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18174.
- Standardized Title:
- American taxation.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taxation--United States.
- Taxation.
- United States.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Songs and music.
- History.
- Great Britain--Colonies--America.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- America.
- Genre:
- Songs and music.
- Broadsides.
- National songs.
- Songs.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : [publisher not identified], [between 1810 and 1830?]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Song, in thirty-six stanzas, concerning the taxes imposed by Great Britain on the American colonies and the subsequent revolution; first line: While I relate my story, Americans give ear.
- Variously attributed to Peter St. John of Norwalk, Conn., and Samuel St. John of New Canaan, Conn.
- Evans supplies the imprint [Hartford : Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1783]; however, this is evidently a much later printing.
- Text in two columns; printed area measures 36.7 x 19.6 cm.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 18174).
- Cited in:
- Evans 18174
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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