MARC Record from Oregon Libraries

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099 $aEvans 45373
100 10 $aThomas, Elisha,$d1746?-1788.
245 14 $aThe last words, and dying speech of Elisha Thomas,$h[microform] :$bwho was executed at Dover, on the 3d June, 1788,---for the murder of Captain Peter Drowne.
260 0 $a[Portsmouth, N.H.? :$bs.n.,$c1788]
300 $a1 sheet ([1] p.) :$bill. (relief cut) ;$c44 x 35 cm.
500 $aSigned and dated: Elisha Thomas. Dover Prison, June 3, 1788.
500 $aText in three columns with a relief cut of a hanging at head. Followed by an untitled poem in sixteen stanzas, also printed in three columns, described as "thoughts [which] were taken from Mr. Elisha Thomas, not long before his execution ... as to his past life and conduct." First line: Ye gazing crouds [sic] that gather round my woe.
500 $aAlthough included in Ford, W.C. Broadsides, other printed accounts of Thomas' life and execution include or have been supplied with a Portsmouth, N.H., imprint. Cf. Evans 21545, Bristol B6818, and Winslow. American broadside verse, New Haven, 1930, p. 108-109.
500 $aPrinted area, including mourning borders, measures 40.3 x 30.6 cm.
510 4 $aBristol$cB6817.
510 4 $aShipton & Mooney$c45373.
510 4 $aFord, W.C. Broadsides,$c2523.
533 $aMicrofiche.$b[New York :$cReadex Microprint,$d1985]$e11 x 15 cm.$f(Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45373)
600 10 $aDrowne, Peter,$dd. 1788.
650 0 $aExecutions and executioners$zNew Hampshire$zDover.
650 0 $aCrime$zNew Hampshire$zDurham.
650 0 $aMurder$zNew Hampshire$zDurham.
655 7 $aBroadsides.$2rbgenr.
655 7 $aPoems$y1788.$2rbgenr.
752 $aUnited States$bNew Hampshire$dPortsmouth.
830 0 $aEarly American imprints.$nFirst series ;$vno. 45373.
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