The Death of General Wolf
Subtitle: [.]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 19938
Publisher: Nathaniel Coverly, printer, Milk-Street, Boston.
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Poetry; Québec Campaign, Québec, 1759; History
Notes: Verse in twelve stanzas; first line: Cheer up your hearts young men let nothing fright you.

Followed by Death of Gen. Wolf, a song written by Thomas Paine between 1768 and 1774, and first printed in America in the March 1775, issue of the Pennsylvania magazine. Cf. Hawke, David Freeman. Paine. New York, 1974, p. 15, 30. First line: In a sad mould'ring cave where the wretched retreat.

Nathaniel Coverly, Jr. is first listed at this address in the Boston directory for 1810. American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. III, no. 69, presented to the society in August 1814.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 27.3 x 19.9 cm.

Shaw & Shoemaker 19938

Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 55

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.