Salem, June 25, 1773
Subtitle: Verses on the sudden and awful death of Mrs. Rebecca Giles, Mr. Paul Kimball and his wife, Mrs. Desire Holman, Mr. William Ward and his wife, Miss Esther Masury, Mr. Nathaniel Diggadon and his wife, and Mrs. Sarah Becket, all of Salem, who were drowned all together off this harbour on the 17th day of June, 1773
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42525
Publisher: Printed by John Kneeland?
Published: 1773
Place of publication: Boston?
Language: eng
Subjects: Drowning; History
Other titles: Verses on the sudden and awful death of Mrs. Rebecca Giles ...; Awake, my Muse, and sing the awful scene.
Notes: Verse of sixty-four lines; first line: Awake, my Muse, and sing the awful scene.

Followed by a prose account of the boating accident.

Possibly printed in Salem. Included in Tapley, H.S. Salem imprints, 1768-1825, p. 314. However, another edition, with variant line endings in the title but otherwise very similar in appearance, has imprint: Boston: Printed and sold [by John Kneeland] in Milk-Street.

Text of poem in two columns; printed area measures 35.2 x 20.7 cm.

Not in Evans or Bristol.

READEX NOTE: Not in Evans or Bristol. Bristol entry B3638 records the edition with imprint: Boston: Printed and sold in Milk-Street, and cites Ford numbers 1690 and 1691.

Shipton & Mooney 42525

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1691

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 822