Some poetical thoughts on the difficulties our fore-fathers endured in planting religious and civil liberty, in this western world
Subtitle: With a few hints on the present state of affairs
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43160
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1776
Place of publication: New Haven?
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Poetry
Notes: Verse, in two parts, each containing thirty-six numbered stanzas; first line: When our fore-fathers were opprest.

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With a relief cut at head. "The cut is an attempt to represent the first day in New Haven history, namely, the assembling of the colonists, newly arrived from Boston, in their first religious service, held on April 15, 1638, under a great oak tree."--Winslow, Ola Elizabeth. American broadside verse, New Haven, Conn., 1930, p. 184.

Text in four columns.

Bristol B4363

Shipton & Mooney 43160

Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 1402

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 775