To the inhabitants of Newburyport
Subtitle: Friends and fellow-candidates for eternal felicity, While by the goodness of Providence we exist in the year 1793 ... I humbly conceive that 'tis not amiss for us to drop a tear to the memory of a number of our worthy former companions ... On the death of Capt. Thomas Newman [and twelve others] ... The above men were drowned in the year 1792, when belonging to Newburyport vessels. An elegiac epistle, to the widows of such of these men as had wives at the time of their death
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 26011
Publisher: Printed by John Mycall
Published: 1793
Place of publication: Newburyport, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [microform] :
Subjects: Drowning; Poetry
Other titles: Elegiac epistle to the widows ...; Fair ladies let a friendly swain.
Notes: Verse in 108 lines; first line: Fair ladies let a friendly swain.

Introductory lines signed: Jonathan Plumer [variously, Plummer], Jun'r.

Followed by: The author's last will and testament.

Imprint supplied by Evans.

Text in five columns; printed area, including relief cuts of thirteen coffins at head, measures 51.9 x 38.9 cm.

Evans notes twelve coffins at head and the misspelling of the word conceive in the title. However, both copies recorded by Evans and that held by the American Antiquarian Society have thirteen coffins (the 13th is missing from the torn copy held by the New York Historical Society) and the correct spelling of conceive.

Evans 26011

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2697A