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The Particulars of the late melancholly and shocking tragedy, which happened at Salem, near Boston, on Thursday, the 17th day of June, 1773.

Followed by verse in five numbered stanzas: The Salem tragedy. Being a relation of the drowning of ten persons, who were taking their pleasure on the water, June 17, 1773. Printed in three columns with relief cut of a ship surmounted by a row of ten initialed coffins at head; within mourning border.
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A poem on the bloody engagement that was fought on Bunker's Hill in Charlestown New-England, on the 17th of June, 1775. : Together with some remarks on the cruelty and barbarity of the British troops ... / By Elisha Rich, Minister of the Gospel.

Verse in twenty-six numbered stanzas; first line: Americans pray lend an ear. Text in two columns divided by type ornament rule and surrounded by border of printers' ornaments; relief cut of the battle (reproduced in Ford- W.C. Broadsides- no. 1922) and coffin labelled "Warren" at head of text. New-York Historical copy damaged along creases- with slight loss of text. References: Evans 14426; Ford- W.C. Broadsides- 1922; Wegelin- O. Amer. poetry- 322.
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