On the Dark Day
Subtitle: May 19th 1780.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43860.
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1810
Place of publication: [Massachusetts?
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders -- Poetry.; Disasters -- Religious aspects -- Poetry.; Forest fires -- New England.; Repentance -- Poetry.; Broadsides.; Poetry -- 1810.
Other titles: Let us adore, and bow before the sovereign Lord of might.
Notes: Verse in twenty-two stanzas; first lines: Let us adore, and bow before the sovereign Lord of might.

The darkness which extended over much of New England was presumably the result of smoke and ashes from a forest fire, trapped in the atmosphere by excessive moisture. Cf. Bumgardner, G.B. American broadsides, 1971, no. 57.

Included in Ford, W.C. Broadsides, ballads &c. printed in Massachusetts. Imprint dates suggested by typography.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 19.4 x 14.1 cm.

Bristol B5153.

Shipton & Mooney 43860.

Shaw & Shoemaker 20953.

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 2270.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43860).