The Poor armourer boy, a song. / Imitated from the "Poor cabin boy," of Dibdin, and adapted to the case of John R. Jewitt, a native of Boston, in Great-Britain, the only survivor of the crew of the ship Boston, of Boston in New-England, who with the captain and officers were cruelly massacred by the savages on the north-west coast of America. Tune--"The poor cabin boy."

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.

Series:

• Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 35665.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821.
• Indian captivities--Songs and music.
• Seafaring life--Songs and music.
• Seafaring life.
• Indian captivities.

Genre:

• Broadsides.
• Songs.
• Songs and music.
• Music.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

[Middletown, Conn.] : Loomis & Richards print. Middletown., [1815]

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file

Notes:

• Song in five stanzas; first lines: No thrush that e'er pip'd its sweet note from the thorn was more lively than I, or more free.
• At foot: Entered according to act of Congress, the 8th day of March 1815--by John R. Jewitt, of the state of Connecticut.
• One of two issues filmed by Readex Microprint for Shaw & Shoemaker 35665. The other issue includes an engraving of "The ship Boston taken by the savages at Nootka Sound March 22d 1803," varies slightly in the first and last stanzas and has copyright statement "Copy right secured according to law."
• Surrounded by ornamental border.
• Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 35665).

Related Work:

Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814. Poor cabin boy (Tune)

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