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- Subject is exactly "Death "
The last words of Polly [Goold] Gould. To a very mournful tune
The ballad on this broadside is about life and death. This broadside has one woodcut and two ornaments.
Date:1798 or 1799
Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.
Verses composed on the schooner Washington and crew, : who was blown off the coast on the 24th of November 1811, being bound from New-York for Salem: light, commanded by Nicholas Thomas, of Frenchmans-Bay, and arrived at the island of St. Thomas, after being at sea 36 days
The ballad on this broadside is about the seafaring life. This broadside has two woodcuts and one ornament.
Date:1812
Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.
Theatre on fire Awful calamity! A letter from Richmond, Virginia dated Dec. 27, says, "Last night the theatre took fire and was consumed, together with about 80 people, with the Governor Smith ..." Later accounts say, 160 skull bones have been found
The ballad on this broadside is about a theatre fire. This broadside has one woodcut.
Date:1812
Publisher:
Sixth naval victory. The U.S. brig Enterprize of 14 guns, commanded by Lieut. William Burrows, took after an engagement of 45 minutes, the British brig of war Boxer, of 18 guns, Capt. Blyth, who with about 50 of his men were killed and wounded Lieut. Burrows and one man killed and seven wounded
The ballad on this broadside is about an American naval victory. This broadside has one woodcut.
Date:1813
Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.
A Particular account of the late distressing fire at Portsmouth
The ballads on this broadside are about a fire in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This broadside has one woodcut and five ornaments.
Date:1813
Publisher:
Murder: death of Miss Mack Coy [i.e., McCoy], and the Young Teazer. On the death of Miss Elizabeth Mack Coy, of Lee, (N.H.) who was cruelly, murdered it is expected, towards the end of August, 1813: and on the deaths of Capt. Dobson, Lieut. Johnson, sailing master Merril, prize master Allen, and twenty five others, killed by a dreadful explosion on board a privateer called the Young Teazer: fire having been conveyed to the magazine it is expected, by this Johnson, who it is likely would have been hanged, had he not killed himself. Written by J. Plummer, travelling preacher
The ballad on this broadside is about murder and death. This broadside has two woodcuts and one ornament.
Date:1813?
Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, bookseller.
On Samuel Tully and John Dalton, alias R. Heathcote, who is sentenced to be executed the 10th day of December, 1812, for piracy and murder.
The ballad on this broadside is about an execution. This broadside has one ornament.
Date:1812
Publisher:
A New song, on the death of Robert Howell Robert Howell, an American citizen, pressed into the British service, and by Britons most barbarously murdered on being compelled to fight on board the Little Belt, against his own countrymen, in which unnatural conflict he lost his leg and thigh, struck off by a cannon ball, and died in a few hours after, of the wound.
The ballad on this broadside is about the death of Robert Howel. This broadside has three woodcuts.
Date:1811
Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.
Melancholy events Boston, July 21st, 1813. On Monday last, the sloop Liberty ... was overset in a squall between this town and Noddle's Island, and sunk ... About the same time, a pleasure-boat ... was overset, on the edge of Dorchester flats ... The following lines have been written on the distressing occasion [One line from the Holy Writ]
The ballad on this broadside is about shipwrecks and death. This broadside has six woodcuts.
Date:1813
Publisher:
An Elegy on the death of the Reverend Joseph S. Buckminster, the beloved pastor of the church in Brattle Street Boston Who departed this life June 9 [1812], in the 29th year of his age
The ballad on this broadside is about the death of Reverend Joseph Buckminster. This broadside has one woodcut.
Date:1812
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