Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Bloody butchery, by the British troops; or The runaway fight of the regulars. : Being the particulars of the victorious battle fought at and near Concord ... between two thousand regular troops, belonging to His Britannic Majesty, and a few hundred provincial troops ... : To which is annexed, a funeral elegy on those who were slain in the battle.
Call Number
117.4
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcs4655w406
Publisher
[Salem, Mass. : Printed and sold by E. Russell, 1775]
Language
English
Date Created
1775
Extent
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (relief cut) ; 55 x 47 cm.
Provenance
WHS copy acquired 7/7/29 from Goodspeed; inv. 1208.
References
ESTC W38404
Sabin 40888
Evans 13839
Bristol B3929
Shipton & Mooney 42772
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1792
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
This catalogue record is derived in large part from a record for a microform.
"From E. Russell's Salem Gazette, or the Newbury and Marblehead Advertiser, published on Friday, April 21, 1775." Also includes information dated Salem, April 25 (from the Essex gazette), and Salem, May 5. The funeral elegy appeared in the May 26 issue of the Essex journal and Merrimack packet.
For an account of other editions of this title, see Streeter, Thomas W. Americana--beginnings, Morristown, N.J., 1952, p. 49-51.
Imprint supplied by Streeter.
Relief cut of forty coffins, with the names of the dead, at head (cf. Reilly 1218); printed area measures 46.7 x 33.8 cm.

Discovery Information

Subject
Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775
Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775
United States—History—Revolution, 1775-1783—Campaigns
United States—History—Revolution, 1775-1783—Registers of dead
United States—History—Revolution, 1775-1783—Poetry
Poetry
Broadsides
Elegies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton and the Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

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