[Loyal and humorous songs, on recent occasions
Subtitle: birth and coronation odes, poems, serious and sarcastical, martial airs and choruses, constitutional toasts and sentiments, calculated to promote loyalty and unanimity
By: by a Briton in New-York. ; With a copy of a letter from E ... H ... in London to Dr. Rogers in New-York, 1770. ; [Two lines of verse] ; To which is added, several favourite old songs, with some new ones, by respectable subscribers, concluding with a cantata, called The procession, with the standard of faction, containing recitatives, airs and songs, characterizing the most violent persecutors of the New-York loyalists.]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 16326
Publisher: Printed by Hugh Gaine?
Published: 1779
Place of publication: New York?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: American loyalists; Songs and music; History
Other titles: New and old compositions.; Procession, with the standard of faction, a cantata.
Notes: The American Antiquarian Society copy is a fragment, consisting of p. 17-76, with signatures C through I in fours and two leaves of gathering K. Title taken from Evans, who evidently derived it from an advertisement by Hugh Gaine in the New-York gazette and weekly Mercury for Oct. 11, 1779. The "Song. The queen's birth day. Newtown, Queen's County, Long-Island, May 19, 1779," p. 61, supports the supposed date and place of publication.

"Copy of a letter from E-- H--d, of London, in the year 1770, to the Reverend Doctor Rogers, of New-York. London, Nov. 15, 1770."--p. 57-59.

"New and old compositions, by favour of respectable subscribers."--p. 60-72.

"The procession, with the standard of faction, a cantata."--p. 73-76+.

Evans 16326

Lowens, I. Songsters, 30