A mournful lamentation for the sad and deplorable death of Mr. Old Tenor
Subtitle: a native of New England, who after a long confinement by a deep and mortal wound which he received about twelve months before, expired on the 31st day of March, 1750 : he lived beloved, and died lamented : to the mournful tune of Chevy-Chase
Series: The magazine of history with notes and queries. Extra number -- no. 90 [pt. 2]; Magazine of history with notes and queries -- no. 90.
Published: 1923
Place of publication: Boston?]; [Tarrytown, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Ballads; Money; Paper money; American Satire; Economic conditions
Other titles: Broadside on the French and Indian war (1746); Magazine of history.; Chevy Chase (Tune)
Notes: Also numbered [1], 39-40.

Reprint of [Boston : T. Fleet, 1750] in Magazine of History.

Twelve stanzas, printed in two columns.

Lamenting, in satirical fashion, the withdrawal from circulation of certain issues of paper currency in the province of Massachusetts.

Attributed to Joseph Green in Sibley's Harvard graduates and in the Magazine of History, v. 24, extra no. 94, 1923, which contains a facsimile of the broadside.

Advertised in the Boston Evening Post, April 2, 1750: "This day is published, and sold by T. Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill."

Caption-title.

Relates to the colonial paper currency of New England, which was instituted in 1702.