A Funeral elegy, occasioned by the tragedy, at Salem near Boston, on Thursday afternoon, the seventeenth of June, 1773 [electronic resource] : at which time the ten following persons, seven women, and three men were drowned, having been out on a party of pleasure ...

Published:: [Salem, Mass.] : [publisher not identified], [1875]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations ; 49 x 32 cm
Additional Creators:: Ladies' Centennial Committee (Salem, Mass.)

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Verse in fifteen numbered stanzas, with cuts of ten initialled coffins at head; first line: Awake, my muse, and tune the song.
A lengthy note following the elegy is signed: A friend to the deceased.
Facsimile reprint of: [Boston] : Printed and sold by E. Russell, next the cornfield, Union Street, near the market. (Pr. 3 cop.), [1773] (Bristol B3565).
"Copied from a broadside in possession of Geo. R. Curwen, Esq., and printed to be sold at an exhibition of antique relics, &c., held by the Ladies' Centennial Committee, of Salem, Mass., Dec. 15, 1875."
Printed area, including mourning border, measures 43.9 x 27.4 cm.
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Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 13654).

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