On the Dark Day
Subtitle: May 19th 1780
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43860
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Massachusetts?
Language: eng
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders; Poetry; Disasters; Religious aspects; Forest fires; Repentance
Other titles: Let us adore, and bow before the sovereign Lord of might.
Notes: Verse in twenty-two stanzas; first lines: Let us adore, and bow before the sovereign Lord of might.

The darkness which extended over much of New England was presumably the result of smoke and ashes from a forest fire, trapped in the atmosphere by excessive moisture. Cf. Bumgardner, G.B. American broadsides, 1971, no. 57.

Included in Ford, W.C. Broadsides, ballads &c. printed in Massachusetts. Imprint dates suggested by typography.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 19.4 x 14.1 cm.

Bristol B5153

Shipton & Mooney 43860

Shaw & Shoemaker 20953

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2270