The Dartmoor massacre! Transposed in verse from the New-York Commercial Advertiser, of the 6th of June last, and the Boston papers, of the same month / [by I.H.W.]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waddell, John Hunter.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--War of 1812--Poetry.

United States.

History.

Dartmoor (England)--History--Poetry.

Dartmoor (England).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered pages-7 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

[Boston, Mass.] : [Nathaniel Coverly, Jun.?], [1815.]

Notes:

"Being the authentic and particular account of the tragic massacre, at Dartmoor prison, in England, on the 6th April last, in which sixty-seven American sailors prisoners there, fell the victims to the jailor's revenge, for obtaining their due allowance of bread which had been withheld from them by the jailors orders."

Caption title.

A broadside ed. was known to have been printed by Nathaniel Coverly Jr, of Boston, who specialized in literature of mayhem and murder. Physical similarities between this and others of Nathaniel Coverly Jr.'s work offer evidence for speculative attribution.

Textually identical editions differ in typography and imposition. T.p. of this edition includes the line "Price 15 cents" in italic small caps (not "Price fifteen cents" in large caps).

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker, 36460

Sabin, 100889

OCLC:

122530699