The signs of the times: or Some expositions and remarks on sundry texts of Scripture, relative to the remarkable phenomenon, or dark-day, which appeared in New-England on the nineteenth of May, 1780
Subtitle: by which it appears that New-England is the place that the Prophet Joel calls Zion and Jerusalem
By: By Samuel Gatchel, deacon of the Second Congregational Church in Marblehead
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 17169
Publisher: Printed and sold by E. Russell, at his printing-office near the Bell-Tavern. M,DCC,LXXI. (Pr. 8 dol.) Also may be had, sundry other new pieces.
Published: 1781
Place of publication: Danvers [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders; Disasters; Religious aspects; Forest fires; History
Notes: 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, no. 57.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁴.

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