A poem on the late distress of the town of Boston. : With some remarks on the sudden flight of the ministerial troops, after plundering and destroying the property of the worthy inhabitants, they left the town in the greatest confusion imaginable, not allowing themselves time to take with them great part of their warlike stores, in short they fled like murderer's pursued by the hand of Justice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rich, Elisha, 1740-1804?, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15061.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boston (Mass.)--History--Siege, 1775-1776--Poetry.

Boston (Mass.).

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

United States.

History.

Genre:

Poetry.

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1776.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Chelmsford [Mass.]: : Printed and sold at N. Coverly's printing-office where may be had, verses by the groze or dozen., M,DCCLXXVI [1776]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Verse in forty-five stanzas; first line: Come shout Americans with joy.

Author from last line: Thy friend E.R. [id est, Elisha Rich] hath his request.

Relief cut at head (Reilly 1134) was also used to illustrate Rich's Poetical remarks upon the fight at the Boston light-house ..., Chelmsford, Mass., N. Coverly, 1775.

Text in three columns; printed area measures 38.0 x 21.9 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 15061).

Cited in:

Evans 15061

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2037

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 326

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