Saw ye my hero George
Subtitle: and The rosary. : Lady Washington left Mount Vernon in June 1778, in expectation of meeting her worthy companion George; on the 28th of the same month, found her favourite engaged in the battle of Monmouth: she made the following observations
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 45585
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Poetry; Monmouth, Battle of, Freehold, N.J., 1778; Rosary; Prayers
Other titles: Saw you my hero--saw you my hero, saw you my hero George?; Though oft we meet severe distress.
Notes: Two poems.

Saw ye my hero George, first lines: Saw you my hero--saw you my hero, saw you my hero George?

Another poem, textually similar to Saw ye my hero George, has title: Lady Washington's search.

The rosary, attributed to William Pearce in Philbrick, Thomas L. "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258; first line: Though oft we meet severe distress.

Various imprint dates and places of publication supplied. American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. III, no. 50, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814. Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, cf. Ford, W.C. The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924.

Relief cut portrait of Washington at left of title; text in two columns; printed area measures 24.3 x 17.6 cm.

Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.

Bristol B7057

Shipton & Mooney 45585

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3334

Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 236

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 761

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 1354