Elegy, &c
Subtitle: 1. Fair daughters of America, and eke of Britain's isle ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 44964
Publisher: Printed by Ezekiel Russell
Published: 1786
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Crime; Murder; Infanticide; Executions and executioners
Other titles: Fair daughters of America, and eke of Britain's isle.
Notes: Verse, in thirty-four numbered stanzas, concerning Elizabeth Wilson, who was executed at Chester, Pa., on January 3, 1786, as an accessory to the murder of her twin infants. Cf. A faithful narrative of Elizabeth Wilson (Evans 19635-19639).

The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, is badly mutilated; title from surviving portions of title and first lines of text.

Text in three columns. The lower half of the second column contains the note that "the publisher hereof proposes ... to insert in number four of his American bloody register, the whole of this shocking and tragical affair ..." and includes an advertisement for the Register. Ezekiel Russell, of Boston, printed and sold the first issue of the American bloody register in 1784 (Evans 18324), but no further numbers have been located.

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.

Bristol B6364

Shipton & Mooney 44964