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Bristol, B5153
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2270
Included in Ford, W.C. Broadsides, ballads &c. printed in Massachusetts. Imprint dates suggested by typography
Shaw & Shoemaker, 20953
Shipton & Mooney, 43860
Text in two columns; printed area measures 19.4 x 14.1 cm
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
Verse in twenty-two stanzas; first lines: Let us adore, and bow before the sovereign Lord of might
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series