Newburyport, July 23, 1794. On Saturday last the following melancholly accident took place in the River Merrimack ..
Subtitle: Elegy, occasioned by the above account
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 27530
Publisher: Printed by John Mycall
Published: 1794
Place of publication: Newburyport, Mass
Language: eng
Subjects: Drowning; Boating accidents; Death; Poetry
Other titles: Elegy, occasioned by the above account.; Oh! 'tis a solemn sound I hear!
Notes: Verse in twelve stanzas; first line: Oh! 'tis a solemn sound I hear!

Attributed to Plummer by Evans, and in Vail, R.W.G. Writings of Jonathan Plummer, AAS Proceedings, v. 43, Oct. 1933, p. 248.

Imprint supplied by Evans.

Relief cuts of eight coffins at head; text in two columns; printed area, including mourning border, measures 32.9 x 17.7 cm.

Evans 27530

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2727