A new touch on the times
Subtitle: Well adapted to the distressing situation of every sea-port town
By: By a daughter of liberty, living in Marblehead
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43671
Publisher: Printed by Ezekiel Russell
Published: 1779
Place of publication: Danvers, Mass
Language: eng
Subjects: Seafaring life; Poetry; Economic conditions; History
Other titles: Our best beloved they are gone.
Notes: Verse of eighty-four lines, describing the severe economic conditions which existed in Marblehead and other coastal towns between 1776 and 1780; first line: Our best beloved they are gone.

Author from final couplet: Molly Gutridge composition ...

"Probably printed by Ezekiel Russell ..."--Tapley. Salem imprints, p. 333. One of the cuts illustrating this broadside poem was also included in the Downfall of justice (Evans 14740) printed by Russell in 1776.

Dated [1778] by Tapley, [1779] by Ford, and [1779?] by Bristol. In 1779 Russell was printing at Danvers, Mass.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 31.8 x 18.9 cm.

Bristol B4924

Shipton & Mooney 43671

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2161