Thomas Moorhead, a ship-wreck'd mariner who subsisted fifty-one days on the bodies of his comrades. Taken off the wreck by the ship Monticello, and arrived at New-York, the beginning of May, 1809.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1809?] |
| Description | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; 28 x 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. Second series no. 18115. ^A575643 |
| General note | Prose account, followed by a Poem on the ship wreck; first lines: While reading o'er the dismal fate of Moorhead, and his crew. |
| General note | American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 97, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814. |
| General note | Text in two columns; printed area, including mourning border, measures 25.5 x 17.3 cm. |
| References | Shaw & Shoemaker 18115 |
| References | Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3362 |
| References | Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 269 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | 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. 18115). |
| Genre/form | Broadsides. |
| Genre/form | Poems 1809. |
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