Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project

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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

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