A poem, on the execution of William Shaw, at Springfield, December 13th 1770, for the murder of Edward East, in Springfield goal.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 12200.
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1771
Place of publication: [Hartford?
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Shaw, William, -- d. 1770; East, Edward, -- d. 1770; Criminals -- Massachusetts -- Springfield; Murder -- Massachusetts -- Springfield; Executions and executioners -- Massachusetts -- Springfield; Broadsides; Springfield (Mass.) -- History
Other titles: You minds of melancholy strain.
Notes: Verse in two parts; first line: You minds of melancholy strain.

Signed: William Carpenter.

Imprint supplied by Shipton & Mooney. Evans supplies Boston as place of publication. Ford confuses this edition with that advertised in the Essex gazette (Bristol B3332).

Text in two columns. Another edition (Bristol B3332) has "A poem" set in italic.

Evans 12200.

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 1511.

Wegelin, O.  Early Amer. poetry, 56.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 12200).