On the Dark Day, May nineteenth, 1780
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43859
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders; Poetry; Disasters; Religious aspects; Forest fires; Repentance
Other titles: Let us adore, and bow down before the sovereign Lord of might.
Notes: 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, no. 57.

Dated [1780?] by Bristol, Ford, and Wegelin. American Antiquarian Society copy 1 bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 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.

Bristol B5152

Shipton & Mooney 43859

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 697

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2269

Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 194