Salem, June 25, 1773 : 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

Salem, June 25, 1773 : 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.

Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	[Boston?] : [Printed by John Kneeland?], [1773]
Description	1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 36 x 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Drowning--Massachusetts --Salem. Salem (Mass.)--History.

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42525. ^A478749
General note	Verse of sixty-four lines; first line: Awake, my Muse, and sing the awful scene.
General note	Followed by a prose account of the boating accident.
General note	Possibly printed in Salem. Included in Tapley, H.S. Salem imprints, 1768-1825, p. 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.
General note	Text of poem in two columns; printed area measures 35.2 x 20.7 cm.
General note	Not in Evans or Bristol.
References	Shipton & Mooney 42525
References	Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1691
References	Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 822
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., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42525).
Genre/form	Broadsides.
Genre/form	Elegies.
Other title	Verses on the sudden and awful death of Mrs. Rebecca Giles ...

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