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.