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  Description of the sufferings of those who were on board the Jersey and other prison ships in the harbour of New-York, during the struggle for our glorious independence. by an American who was a prisoner on board one of them.
  Date of publication:
  1781-1786
  

  Author(s):

  Freneau, Philip Morin, 1752-1832.
  Description:
  By Philip Freneau. For a discussion of the three known texts of this poem, see "A broadside of Freneau's The British Prison Ship," by Philip Marsh and Milton Ellis, in American literature, v. 10, no. 4, Jan. 1939, p. ...
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  By His Excellency Collonel Benjamin Fletcher captain general and governour in chief of His Majesties province of New-York, &c. A proclamation[.] Whereas it hath graciously pleased Almighty God to crown the constant great courage and conduct of our Most gracious Soveraign Lord King William during the war, with an honourable peace ... I have therefore thought fit to appoint, that Thursday the tenth day of March next ... and Thursday the twenty fourth day of the same moneth ... be kept solemn days of thanksgiving to Almighty God ... Given at New-York, the 26th day of Februrary ... annoq; Domini 1697 [1698 N.S.]
  Date of publication:
  1697-1698
  

  Author(s):

  New York (State). Governor (1692-1698 : Fletcher). and Fletcher, Benjamin, 1640-1703.
  Description:
  Signed: Ben. Fletcher. God save the King. Royal arms at head of title.
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  Inscribed to the memory of the American Fabius, by Doctor Isaac Ball, of New-York.
  Date of publication:
  1800
  

  Author(s):

  Ball, Isaac.
  Description:
  Thirty lines in memory of George Washington. Printed area, including mourning border, measures 50.7 x 31.5 cm.
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  Last words and dying speech of Samuel Smith, who was executed at Concord, in the county of Middlesex, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the 26th of December, A.D. 1799, for the crime of burglary.
  Date of publication:
  1799
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, Samuel, 1745-1799.
  Description:
  Signed: Samuel Smith. Concord gaol, Dec. 26, 1799. Two states noted. The first has imprint as given above, and has a relief cut of a coffin at head of title. The second, without the cut, has imprint: To be sold at Mr. ...
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  The author wishing it may be improved and enlarged, by some abler pen, now casts in her mite, to the memory of that worthy person, whose loss we severely feel. Hannah Wheaton.
  Date of publication:
  1799
  

  Author(s):

  Wheaton, Hannah.
  Description:
  Twelve stanzas of verse on the death of George Washington; first line: My Father! Cries the United States. Imprint supplied by Evans.
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