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
Format: Microform
Subjects: Seafaring life -- Poetry.; Massachusetts -- Economic conditions -- Poetry.; Marblehead (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry.
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.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43671)