Melancholy event at Fort Constitution, in Portsmouth harbour, on the Fourth of July, 1809
Subtitle: eight men were killed and a number wounded, by the burning of about three hundred wt. of gun-powder; upon which dreadful occasion the following lines were made
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 18064a
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1809
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Subjects: Death; Poetry; Explosion
Other titles: Elegiac ode on the death of those persons killed and mortally wounded at Fort Constitution.
Notes: Verse in eleven stanzas; first line: Se [sic], fellow mortals, old and young.

Followed by an Elegiac ode, on the death of the those persons killed and mortally wounded at Fort Constitution, by another hand; first line: Almighty ruler of the skies.

At foot: Names of the killed.

Text in two columns; relief cuts of eight coffins between first and second lines of title; printed area measures 28.7 x 15.3 cm.

Shaw & Shoemaker 18064a

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.