An elegy
Subtitle: On the death of Capt. Annanias Valentine, Thomas Pinckney, Isaac Elliot, Jocamiah Cropsey, and Leonard Merrit, all respectable citizens of the town of Marlborough, who were unfortunately drowned on the flatts, in front of the town, in attempting to go on shore, on Friday morning, the 12th of December, 1800, in a violent storm of wind and rain
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 38624
Publisher: Printed by Samuel S. Freer?
Published: 1800
Place of publication: Kingston, N.Y.?
Language: eng
Subjects: Boating accidents; Drowning; Poetry; History
Other titles: Come all you good people of ev'ry degree.
Notes: Verse in eighteen stanzas; first line: Come all you good people of ev'ry degree.

Another edition (Evans 38625) names Peter Tharp as author, and has imprint: Kingston, (Ulster County) Printed by Samuel S. Freer, (Copy right secured.) That edition includes a prose account of the accident and includes an additional stanza.

Text in two columns separated and surrounded by mourning border; relief cuts of five coffins between title and text; printed area measures 28.2 x 21.8 cm.

READEX NOTE: Reproduced as Shaw 438; not reproduced as Evans 38624.

Evans 38624

Shaw & Shoemaker 438