An elegy
Subtitle: on the death of Capt. Annanias Valentine, Thomas Pinkney, 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.--
By: By Peter Tharp
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 38625
Publisher: Printed by Samuel S. Freer, (Copy right secured.)
Published: 1800
Place of publication: Kingston, (Ulster County) [New York]
Language: eng
Subjects: Boating accidents; Drowning; Poetry; History
Other titles: Come all you good people of ev'ry degree.
Notes: Verse in nineteen stanzas; first line: Come all you good people of ev'ry degree.

Includes a prose account of the accident.

With five coffins bearing the initials of those drowned.

Text in two columns; printed area, including mourning border, measures 37.0 x 23.2 cm.

Evans 38625