Lord Cornwallis's surrender.

ID 16093
Title Lord Cornwallis's surrender.
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Signed Author Anonymous
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Volumes 1
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Date of Publication 1810
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Edition Number 1
Date of First Publication 1810
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Colophon
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Location of Printing Boston US
Format Broadside (bs)
Length (cm) 29
Width (cm) 21
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Notes Publication date and date of first publication tentative. AAS Notes: Verse in seven stanzas; first lines: Come all you brave Americans, the truth to you I'll tell.
Followed by Sailor boy, first line: The sea was calm, the sky serene. These lines are the first two stanzas of The little sailor boy, written by Susanna Rowson and included in her Miscellaneous poems, Boston, 1804, p. [210]-211.
American Antiquarian Society copy bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. II, no. 114, "purchased from a ballad printer and seller in Boston" and presented to the society in August 1814. Most, if not all, of these issues were published after 1810, cf. Ford, W.C. The Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads, 1924.
Text in two columns; printed area measures 24.7 x 17.2 cm.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, ballads, &c. printed in Massachusetts, 1639-1800,
Ford, W.C. Isaiah Thomas collection of ballads,
Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature,
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Rowson, Susanna. Lord Cornwallis's surrender.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 16093, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/16093. Accessed 2025-12-06.

Rowson, Susanna. Lord Cornwallis's surrender. Boston: 1810. 

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