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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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  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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  Convivial song, sung at Windsor, on the evening of the Fourth of July. Composed for the occasion--by R. Tyler. Tune--"Here's to our noble selves, boys."
  Date of publication:
  1799
  

  Author(s):

  Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826.
  Description:
  Song in eight numbered stanzas; first line: Come fill each brimming glass, boys. Typographically identical text, with slight variation in title, appears in the July 16, 1799, issue of Spooner's Vermont journal.
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  Barlow's letter. From the Connecticut courant.
  Date of publication:
  1798
  

  Author(s):

  Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812. and Baldwin, Abraham, 1754-1807.
  Description:
  Unsigned preface followed by "Copy of a letter from an American diplomatic character in France to a member of Congress in Philadelphia [i.e., Abraham Baldwin]. 1st March 1798," reprinted from the Nov. 5, 1798, issue of the ...
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