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  A poem on the late distress of the town of Boston. With some remarks on the sudden flight of the ministerial troops, after plundering and destroying the property of the worthy inhabitants, they left the town in the greatest confusion imaginable, not allowing themselves time to take with them great part of their warlike stores, in short they fled like murderer's pursued by the hand of Justice.
  Date of publication:
  1776
  

  Author(s):

  Rich, Elisha, 1740-1804?
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  Verse in forty-five stanzas; first line: Come shout Americans with joy. Author from last line: Thy friend E.R. [i.e., Elisha Rich] hath his request. Relief cut at head (Reilly 1134) was also used to illustrate Rich's ...
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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.
  Date of publication:
  1775
  

  Author(s):

  Rich, Elisha, 1740-1804?
  Description:
  Verse in twenty-six numbered stanzas; first line: Americans pray lend an ear. Text in two columns surrounded by border of printers' ornaments; relief cut of the battle (reproduced in Ford, W.C. Broadsides, no. 1922).
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