A poem, descriptive of the terrible fire, which made such shocking devastation in Boston, on Friday evening the twenty-first of April, 1787, in which were consumed one house of worship, of which the Reverend Ebenezer Wight was pastor, and upwards of one hundred dwelling-houses and other buildings ... Composed by H.W.

People / Organizations

• ld by ("printed by")
• H. W. (Author)

Imprint

[Boston]: Sold [by Ezekiel Russell] at the printing-office in Essex-Street, next Liberty-Pole: where may be had, on Saturday next, a particular account of the above melancholy catastrophe ., [1787]

Added name

Russell, Ezekiel, 1743-1796, printer.

Publication year

1787

ESTC No.

W31527

Grub Street ID

341950

Description

1 sheet : ill. (relief cut) ; ⁰⁰

Note

Verse in seventeen stanzas; first line: Gentle Clio calm my passions.

Ezekiel Russell printed at this address in Boston in 1787.

Text in two columns separated by a double row of ornaments; relief cut of the conflagration at head of title.

Uncontrolled note

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides. - VERIFY AND COMPLETE IMPRINT