America, Commerce & Freedom. Together with the Soldier and His Fair Maid.

ID 19350
Title America, Commerce & Freedom. Together with the Soldier and His Fair Maid.
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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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Location of Printing Boston US
Format Broadside (bs)
Length (cm) 28
Width (cm) 22
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Notes Publication date and date of first publication are between 1810-1814, according to AAS. AAS Notes: Three poems.
America, commerce & freedom is included in Mrs. Rowson's Miscellaneous poems, Boston, 1804, p. [201]-203; first line: How blest a life a sailor leads.
The Soldier and his fair maid, first line: One evening in my rambles two miles below Pomroy. Text is the same as "Ranordine," cf. Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3316.
Followed by Owen, first line: Tho' far beyond those mountains that look so distant here.
Printing attributed to Nathaniel Coverly in BAL.
American Antiquarian Society copies bound in the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, v. I, no. 55, and v. II, no. 117, "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 24.6 x 19.8 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. America, Commerce & Freedom. Together with the Soldier and His Fair Maid.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 19350, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/19350. Accessed 2025-11-21. 

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