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Verses on the sudden and awful death of Mrs. Rebecca Giles, Mr. Paul Kimball and his wife, Mrs. Desire Holman, Mr. William Ward and his wife, Miss Esther Masury, Mr. Nathaniel Diggadon and his wife, and Mrs. Sarah Becket, all of Salem, who were drowned all together off this harbour on the 17th day of June, 1773
Verses on the sudden and awful death of Mrs. Rebecca Giles
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 36 x 23 cm.
Verse of sixty-four lines; first line: Awake, my Muse, and sing the awful scene.
Followed by a prose account of the boating accident.
Possibly printed in Salem. Included in Tapley, H.S. Salem imprints, 1768-1825, page 314. However, another edition, with variant line endings in the title but otherwise very similar in appearance, has imprint: Boston: Printed and sold [by John Kneeland] in Milk-Street.
Text of poem in two columns; printed area measures 35.2 x 20.7 cm.
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42525).