Some meditations concerning our honourable gentlemen and fellow-souldiers : in pursuit of those barbarous natives in the Narragansit-Country; and their service there. : Committed into plain verse for the benefit of those that read it. / By an unfeigned friend.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winthrop, Wait Still, 1643-1717, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39758.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narragansett Indians--Poetry.

Narragansett Indians.

Indians of North America--New England--Poetry.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Wars--1600-1750--Poetry.

King Philip's War, 1675-1676--Poetry.

King Philip's War, 1675-1676.

Indians of North America--Wars.

Narragansett (R.I.).

New England.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1721.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Place of Publication:

[New London, Conn.] : Re-printed at N. London [by Timothy Green], April 4. 1721.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Verse, in thirty-two numbered stanzas, describing the engagement in King Philip's War usually referred to as the Swamp Fight, fought on December 19, 1675. First line: These Indians strong have waited long.

Signed and dated: W.W. December 28, 1675. Attributed to Wait Still Winthrop by Wegelin.

No copy of an earlier edition is known.

Timothy Green was the only printer active at New London in 1721.

Text in three columns.

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 39758).

Cited in:

Bristol B619

Shipton and Mooney 39758

Johnson, H.A. New London, 140

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 464

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