On the Dark Day, May nineteenth, 1780.

Bibliographic Details
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Boston] : [publisher not identified], [between 1810 and 1814]
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 43859.
Subjects:	Curiosities and wonders > Poetry. Disasters > Religious aspects > Poetry. Forest fires > New England. Repentance > Poetry. Broadsides. Poems > 1810.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

Description
Item Description:	Verse in twenty-two stanzas; first lines: Let us adore, and bow before the sovereign Lord of might. The darkness which extended over much of New England was presumably the result of smoke and ashes from a forest fire, trapped in the atmosphere by excessive moisture. Cf. Bumgardner, G.B. American broadsides, 1971, number 57. Dated [1780?] by Bristol, Ford, and Wegelin. American Antiquarian Society copy 1 bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, number 21, "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. Text in two columns; printed area measures 26.4 x 15.1 cm. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 29 x 20 cm. Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Place of Publication:	United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.