An elegy : On the death of Capt. Annanias Valentine, Thomas Pinckney, Isaac Elliot, Jocamiah Cropsey, and Leonard Merrit, all respectable citizens of the town of Marlborough, who were unfortunately drowned on the flatts, in front of the town, in attempting to go on shore, on Friday morning, the 12th of December, 1800, in a violent storm of wind and rain.
| Author/creator | Tharp, Peter |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [Kingston, N.Y.?] : [Printed by Samuel S. Freer?], [1800?] |
| Description | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts) ; 30 x 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. Second series no. 438. ^A575643 |
| General note | Verse in eighteen stanzas; first line: Come all you good people of ev'ry degree. |
| General note | Another edition (Evans 38625) names Peter Tharp as author, and has imprint: Kingston, (Ulster County) Printed by Samuel S. Freer, (Copy right secured.) That edition includes a prose account of the accident and includes an additional stanza. |
| General note | Text in two columns separated and surrounded by mourning border; relief cuts of five coffins between title and text; printed area measures 28.2 x 21.8 cm. |
| References | Evans 38624 |
| References | Shaw & Shoemaker 438 |
| 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. 438). |
| Genre/form | Broadsides. |
| Genre/form | Elegies. |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |