Saw ye my hero George : and, The rosary : Lady Washington left Mount Vernon in June 1778, in expectation of meeting her worthy companion George, on the 28th of the same month, found her favourite engaged in the battle of Monmouth : she made the following observations.

Format:

Book

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monmouth, Battle of, Freehold, N.J., 1778--Poetry.

Monmouth, Battle of, Freehold, N.J., 1778.

Rosary.

Prayers.

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

United States.

Washington, George, 1732-1799--Poetry.

Washington, George.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 broadside ) port. ;

Other Title:

Saw ye my hero George

Saw you my hero--saw you my hero, saw you my hero George?

Though oft we meet severe distress.

Place of Publication:

[Boston : s.n., between 1810 and 1814]

Notes:

Two poems.

Saw ye my hero George, first lines: Saw you my hero--saw you my hero, saw you my hero George?

The Rosary, attributed to William Pearce in Philbrick, Thomas L. "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258; first line: Though oft we meet severe distress.

Various imprint dates and places of publication supplied. American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. III, no. 50, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814. Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, cf. Ford, W.C. The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924.

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Sabin no. 101883.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG94-B400

Contains:

Pearce, William, fl. 1785-1796. Rosary.

OCLC:

85789585