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- Oppression: a poem. Or, New-England's lamentation of the dreadful extortion and other sins of the times.
- Verse in twenty-seven stanzas; first line: Come all you friends to goodness, I pray you to attend., Dated [1765] by Evans. However, the theme of extortion suggests to Ford and others that the poem was written about 1777 when this evil was a topic of common concern in the colonies. Cf. Winslow, Ola E. American broadside verse ... New-Haven, 1930, no. 89., Woodcuts are the same as those used frequently by Ezekiel Russell who was located at Salem, Mass., in 1776 and early 1777. In February or March, 1777, Russell moved his printing office to nearby Danvers, Mass., The two woodcuts show an astronomer examining the heavens with a cross staff, accompanied by an armillary sphere, compasses, etc., and a town with lightning overhead., Text in two columns divided by single rule., N-YHS copy: closely trimmed, torn, with slight loss of text; fabric lining.
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- dying criminal.
- by Robert Young, ; on his own execution, which is to be on this day, November 11th, 1779, for a rape committed on the body of Jane Green, a child, eleven years of age, at Brookfield, in the county of Worcester, on the third day of September last. Corrected from his own manuscript., Verse in seventeen stanzas, printed in two columns divided by mourning rule; first line: Attend, ye youth! if ye would fain be old., Isaiah Thomas was the only printer active at Worcester, Mass., in 1779., Text in two columns; printed area measures 36.2 x 18.9 cm., Woodcut of hanging with gibbet, crowd, and cart., N-YHS copy imperfect: mutilated, with some loss of text and imprint; fabric lining.