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The girl of my heart, together with the Maid of Lodi, and Country 'squire
The ballads on this broadside are about love. This broadside has two woodcuts.
Date:August 28, 1811
Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.
Privateering and pirateering alias, the "Peace Party" at war; alias, the Devil to pay in the Federal camp
The ballad on this broadside is about privateering and pirating. This broadside has two woodcuts and one ornament.
Date:1812
Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.
A Particular account of the late distressing fire at Portsmouth
The ballads on this broadside are about a fire in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This broadside has one woodcut and five ornaments.
Date:1813
Publisher:
Murder: death of Miss Mack Coy [i.e., McCoy], and the Young Teazer. On the death of Miss Elizabeth Mack Coy, of Lee, (N.H.) who was cruelly, murdered it is expected, towards the end of August, 1813: and on the deaths of Capt. Dobson, Lieut. Johnson, sailing master Merril, prize master Allen, and twenty five others, killed by a dreadful explosion on board a privateer called the Young Teazer: fire having been conveyed to the magazine it is expected, by this Johnson, who it is likely would have been hanged, had he not killed himself. Written by J. Plummer, travelling preacher
The ballad on this broadside is about murder and death. This broadside has two woodcuts and one ornament.
Date:1813?
Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, bookseller.
The Peacock stung by the Hornet: or Engagement between the United States ship Hornet, Captain Lawrence, of 16 guns, and His Britannic Majestys brig Peacock, Captain Peake of 19 guns, which he sunk after 15 minutes close action The Hornet had one man killed, and two wounded, the Peacock 8 killed, and 27 wounded When the Peacock sunk, 19 of her crew, and 8 brave Americans went down with her.
The ballad on this broadside is about an American naval victory. This broadside has two woodcuts and one ornament.
Date:1813
Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.
Pat's observations on Harrison's victory : (Hark ye, good people, a bit ...
The ballad on this broadside is about Harrison’s victory. This broadside has one woodcut and one ornament.
Date:1813
Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.
On Samuel Tully and John Dalton, alias R. Heathcote, who is sentenced to be executed the 10th day of December, 1812, for piracy and murder.
The ballad on this broadside is about an execution. This broadside has one ornament.
Date:1812
Publisher:
Offset for the Chesapeake, or The capture of Fort George, and repulse of the enemy from Sacket's Harbor:
The ballad on this broadside is about a naval battle. This broadside has one woodcut and one ornament.
Date:1813
Publisher:
An Ode on the comet
The ballad on this broadside is about a comet. This broadside has one woodcut.
Date:1811
Publisher:
A New song, on the death of Robert Howell Robert Howell, an American citizen, pressed into the British service, and by Britons most barbarously murdered on being compelled to fight on board the Little Belt, against his own countrymen, in which unnatural conflict he lost his leg and thigh, struck off by a cannon ball, and died in a few hours after, of the wound.
The ballad on this broadside is about the death of Robert Howel. This broadside has three woodcuts.
Date:1811
Publisher:Coverly, Nathaniel, 1775?-1824, printer.